Links to Data Sources for Corporate Finance:
Company Research:
USC Crocker Library Electronic Resources Page
This site will take you to many business data sources. There is very likely overlap with some of the following sources but I have found the following to be particularly valuable. They provide links to a variety of websites including the company's homepages and the SEC Edgar Data base and are searchable:
Company Data
The Wharton Data Base is made available to the USC Marshall School as part of a consortium of better research-oriented universities. You can download stock market price and return data from the University of Chicago's famous Center for Research in Securities Prices (CRSP) data base, from the most widely used data-base on corporate financial data from annual reports and 10-Ks, Standard and Poor's Compustat data, and other sources (e.g. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and so on. If you access this website through the USC Crocker Library Electronic Resources Page above, you do not need a username or password; otherwise you must apply for one.
Securities and Exchange Commission EDGAR System
The Electronic Data-Gathering and Retrieval (EDGAR) System is the repository of public filings of all companies filing required filings electronically, which now includes nearly all publicly traded companies.
Bond Price and Interest Rate Data:
(a) Bloomberg L.P is a well-known financial data news service whose founder is now mayor of New York City
(b) Access the S&P Bond Guide through Marshall School Crocker Library by selecting "Standard and Poor's" and then on upper left of the S&P webpage "Bond Guide: corp" (you have to be on a USC laboratory computer because of the subscription charges)
(c) Since July 1, 2002, the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) has disseminated bond transaction data on 500 bonds through their website: http://www.nasdbondinfo.com
(d) BondsOnline is a service providing data on corporate bond spreads over U.S. Treasury securities by risk classification and also sometimes providing prices for individual corporate bonds and a search engine for locating bonds satisfying criteria (like industry, maturity, risk classification, etc.)
(e) FRED is a database maintained by the Federal Reserve Bank of Saint Louis with many historical series including U.S Treasury rates on selected maturities for past dates (useful in pricing bonds for a given date in the past)
Economic News and Releases
A business news site which provides links to breaking business and economic news.
An official source on monetary policy pronouncements of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.