Commerce

Best Database Choices for Commerce Databases

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All Commerce Databases

Factiva

Company and business information from Dow Jones; articles from over 6,000 newspapers and periodicals plus news photographs. Select "News pages" to browse daily issues of recent newspapers from many countries; use "Search" to find older articles. Logout at the end of a session to avoid problems connecting the next time.

LexisNexis Academic

News and business information from sources around the world; book reviews, biographical, and other reference sources; U.S. Code, constitution, and court cases. Includes many newspapers. Most entries are full-text, some updated daily.

Business and Company Resource Center   

Information about companies and industries around the world. Data includes business journals, consumer marketing data, corporate information and press releases, emerging technology reports, and various investment reports.

Economagic

A collection of more than 100,000 economic time series that can be manipulated to produce forecasts, regression analyses and charts or downloaded to Excel spreadsheets.

FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data)

A database of over 3000 U.S. economic time series. With FRED® you can download data in Microsoft Excel and text formats and view charts of data series.

Country Commercial Guides

A series of guides to doing business in individual countries.Data provided by STAT-USA/Internet, a service of the U.S. Department of Commerce, which provides a single point of access to authoritative business, trade, and economic information from across the Federal Government.

Livingston Survey

It summarizes the forecasts of economists from industry, government, banking, and academia. The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia took responsibility for the survey in 1990, although the data began to be collected in 1946.

EDGAR Company Search (SEC)   

The Edgar Archive of Corporate filings with the SEC. The 10-K reports are most extensive.