LIB340 FINDING COMPANY INFORMATION
LINGNAN UNIVERSITY LIBRARYOCT 2012
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OUTLINE
Company Information
• Company Profiles • Annual Reports• Company Financials• Competitors• Stock Prices• Credit Ratings • Company News
China Company Information
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COMPANY INFORMATION GUIDE
Research Guides @ LU Business Company Information
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COMPANY PROFILES & INFORMATION
DATABASES:
Hoover’s Online Information on over 45,000 public and private companies
including company history, top officers, financials, competitors, location, company news, etc.
Business Source Premier – Company ProfilesIncludes articles on business fields such as marketing,
management, accounting, finance, economics, etc. Additional full text, non-journal content includes market research reports, industry reports, country reports, company profiles, etc.
Factiva [Companies/Markets]
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COMPANY PROFILES & INFORMATION
INTERNET RESOURCES:
Company Information (from Etnet)Provides company profiles for listed companies in Hong Kong
http://www.etnet.com.hk/www/tc/stocks/ci_database.phpCompany Histories (from Answers.com)http://www.answers.com/library/Company%20Histories
Research Hub [from finet.com]http://www.finet.hk/mainsite/index.htm
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ANNUAL REPORTSDATABASE:Osiris
INTERNET RESOURCES:Listed Companies of HK [from irasia.com]
• http://www.irasia.com/ar.htmHKExNews
http://www.hkexnews.hk/listedco/listconews/advancedsearch/search_active_main.asp#
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COMPANY FINANCIALSDATABASES: Datastream Factiva [Companies/Markets] Osiris LexisNexis Academic Compustat Bloomberg Terminal
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COMPETITORS
Hoover’s Online
Business Source Premier – Company Profiles
Factiva [Companies/Markets]
Osiris
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STOCK PRICESDATABASES: Datastream Factiva [Companies/Markets] Bloomberg Terminal
INTERNET RESOURCES: ETNet
http://www.etnet.com.hk Money18
http://money18.on.cc/index.html Yahoo! HongKong Finance
http://hk.finance.yahoo.com Google Finance
http://www.google.com.hk/finance?
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CREDIT RATINGS Standard & Poor’s RatingsDirect :Web-based source for Standard & Poor's global credit ratings, research, and risk analysis.
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Current data
COMPANY NEWS
Databases:Factiva (English & Chinese)
LexisNexis Academic (English)
Hoover’s Online (English)
Wisenews (English & Chinese)
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CHINA COMPANY INFORMATIONDatabases:Wind China Financial Information Services (Wind.Net)
• Financial data and news for China including listed companies (A-share and B-share), fund, bond, macro economic data, etc.
CSMAR• Company financial information and trading statistics of listed
companies in China. Includes both A Shares and B Shares..
China InfoBank (中國資訊行 )• An important source of economic and business data,
legislations, statistics and news of Mainland China. Most information is in Chinese.
• 中國公司企業產品• 中國經濟新聞• 中國商業報告
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