Top Electronic Sources
- EIU.com - Economist Intelligence Unit country profiles and online publications are a great place to get started. Available on campus only.
STAT-USA - GLOBUS/NTDB - U.S. Commerce Dept. site with the National Trade Data Bank, market and industry research reports, Country Commercial Guides, and U.S. trade statistics
- ISI Emerging Markets. - News and macroeconomic analysis for emerging markets.
- LexisNexis - NEWS, WORLD, or regional libraries. - Full text journal articles and country profiles and risk studies. In LexisNexis Academic, choose Reference, then Country Profiles or News, then World News.
- Datastream - Current and historical data on many topics in finance and economics easily downloaded into Excel format.
Current News Web Newspapers and Newswire Services - See also the Horn Library International Periodicals page, listing all of the international periodicals available in the library.
- Internet Public Library: Online Newspapers - listed by country.
- Yahoo News - World Headlines - from Reuters, AP, MSNBC, etc.
Current News Subscription Services
- ISI Emerging Markets - Business & economic news & data on emerging countries.
- Factiva - Click on Source Browser then select Publications then Region, then select countries or regions (to select them click on the selected countries, regions or specific publications to turn them green, then click on Add selected sources) to search an archive of international news sources.
- LexisNexis Academic - Choose NEWS, then World News or Foreign Language News to search various global publications. Foreign language news is available in Spanish, French, Dutch, Italian & German.
- ProQuest - Enter GEO(COUNTRYNAME) for online business articles about a country
- Country Studies
For extensive listings and descriptions, see the Country Studies guides.
- Economist Intelligence Unit publications via EIU.com - Information Desk1
- Country Profiles - annual overviews
Country Reports - quarterly updates
Country Commerce (formerly Investing, Licensing and Trade Abroad)
Country Finance (formerly financing foreign operations) - includes review of banking operations plus the biweekly publications Business Asia, Business Europe, Business Latin American, etc.
- National Trade Data Bank via Stat-USA - Country Commercial Guides, market reports, human rights, trade
- CIA World Factbook
- LexisNexis Academic - More commercial country studies are available at LexisNexis workstations in the library.
- Mark Bernkopf's Central Banking Resource Center
- The Electronic Embassy - links to Washington embassies
- Statistical Agencies (International)
Economic Conditions and Statistics
For good comparisons of indicators such as GDP, poverty, labor force, etc. for many countries, try the World Development Report, World Economic Outlook, World Economic and Social Survey, or Human Development Report in their statistical appendixes.
CIA Handbook of Economic Statistics
ISI Emerging Markets - Includes macroeconomic analyses for emerging markets.
Global Financial Markets
Bloomberg - Global indexes and equity markets.
Datastream Research Service. - Current and historical data on many topics in finance and economics
LexisNexis Academic. Choose Business... Company Financial. - Select International Company Reports as source to obtain brief financial information about an international companies. - ISI Emerging Markets - Covers developing markets worldwide and includes financial data on public companies, articles, industry data, analysts reports, and economic information.
Yahoo - Business and Economy/Finance and Investment/Exchanges/Stock Exchanges
Companies
Hoover's Online
- Thomson Research - Financial statements from SEC Filings.
- Worldscope via Thomson Research
- D&B Principal International Businesses
- Mergent's International Manual - HG4961.M7 (Reference) - Financial statements and brief history.
- Mergent's News Reports (formerly Moody's) HG4961.M7 (Reference) - Brief news to update Manuals.
Research Guides
Internet Public Library's International Business Reference
See also the following Library Research Guides:
Global Trade
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