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Worldscope company data
Worldscope is an international database containing financial profiles, fundamental analysis, and stock performance data. Worldscope takes into consideration the variety of accounting conventions now in use worldwide and presents more than 6,000 data variables in a reformatted design that facilitates comparisons between companies within and across national boundaries. Worldscope data variables include financial variables extracted from source documents, data items computed from fundamental variables, general corporate data, including a brief business description, officers, segment data, major shareholders and auditor information, and accounting data items on a company-specific basis. For an overview of the number of companies covered by country I have created an Excel file which is available here.
Worldscope is available through (at least) the following two database suppliers:
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02:48 PM - 23 December 2009Public historical economic data sources
The following historical sources may be of interest if you are lookig for economic or social data:
The IISH List of Datafiles of Historical Prices and Wages
NEHA: BedrijfsArchieven Register Nederland
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05:02 AM - 10 December 2009Financial Reporting & Accounting Standards
Here are some sources which are available on the internet and that I think may be useful:
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12:19 AM - 28 October 2009Company name extensions
Many companies worldwide have different extensions attached to the full name. These extensions indicate their type and what legal requirements are attached to their operation. Some extensions for instance indicate whether they are public or private companies. an overview for many countries is available at the website of CorporateInformation (CI).
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12:39 AM - 5 October 2009Commodity prices
There are several sources I know which can be used to find Commodity prices. Datastream is one of these sources. If you select the Data Category Commodities you can search for prices of several types of commodities. The best way to search for this is to use the Explorer option which allows you to browse the various commodities. When you search for the main oil price this is the best way to go. The default oil price will appear in bold among the others: the mnemonic for it is OILBREN. Natural gass also has a main default price which is listed in bold: NATLGAS.
Other sources on the internet for commodity prices are:
IMF Primary Commodity Prices
World Bank - Commodity Price Data (Pink Sheet)
Commodity Price Statistics on-line (UNCTAD) The website provides monthly free-market prices and price indices starting in January 1960 for selected commodities that concern commodity-dependent countries. Price indices are provided for commodity groups (including food, tropical beverages, vegetable oilseeds and oils, agricultural raw materials, minerals, ores and metals), and for all groups in current dollars and SDRs.
Note: Access to some of these sources may depend on your organisation having a subscription.
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11:42 PM - 4 October 2009
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