Real-time current and historical economic and financial data as well as real-time news.

Provided with the generous support of the Deutsche Bank.

Short guide to navigating Bloomberg (2p PDF)
Short guide to using API (Bloomberg excel add-in) (2p PDF)
Bloomberg training in Singapore

SWOT analysis (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats) by Datamonitor for 10 000 public companies.

Span: Varies by company.

Economic, social and political reports from various sources including: EIU, CountryWatch, OECD economic surveys.

Span: Varies with the country/source.

CUSIP Master file                                                      Available through WRDS

Provides CUSIP numbers, standardized descriptions and additional data attributes for over 5 million corporate, municipal and government securities offered in North America.

Online manual (WRDS login required)

EndNote Web                                                                    Available off campus

Free, web-based version of the desktop citation management software.

Short Guide
Tutorials

Market research and analysis for the IT industry from the Ovum/Butler Group (Datamonitor). Kindly made available courtesy of INSEAD's IT department.

Eventus performs event studies using data read directly from CRSP stock databases or pre-extracted from any source.

Online manual (WRDS login required)

8000 news sources from 118 countries in 22 languages with same-day full text access to major newspapers and business magazines as well as 25 000 company reports.

Span: 1969 onwards.

Short guide (2p PDF)

In-depth guide (30p PDF)
Help tips (2p PDF)

First Call                                                                         Available through WRDS

Historical database of real time earnings estimates, contains data on broker estimate detail, consensus estimates, company issued guidelines and more.

Span: late 1980's onwards

Online manual (WRDS login required).

Complimentary access for INSEAD provided thanks to the Financial Times.

Span: 2003 onwards.

Abstracts from over 600 scholarly journals and general interest publications about the environment. (Some full-text.)

Help guide to EBSCO databases (HTML)

Working Papers by INSEAD.  N.B. For the full collection, see the Library Catalogue.

Span: 2007 onwards.

Impact factors, an immediacy index, article counts, and cited half-life for over 7000 peer-reviewed journals in the Sciences and Social Science.

Span: 2001- . Updated annually

Online tutorial
In-depth guide (37p PDF)

MEDLINE - please see PubMed

NewspaperDirect - PressDisplay                                         Available off campus

Same-day editions of internationally recognized newspapers.

Span: 2 months

 ORBIS                                                                                  Available off campus

Financials and stock market data for 750,000 public and private companies worldwide.

Important access note: regardless of your current location, when prompted, select "France" or "Singapore" from the pull down menu.

Span: 10 years

Citations and abstracts of biomedical and life science research articles (formerly MEDLINE). Use the pull down menu to search PubMed Central, a digital archive of free full text articles in those fields.

Span: 1950 onwards, varies by title.

A webbased citation management software. Available for free to INSEAD users as an alternative to EndNote.

First-time users must Sign up for an Individual Account with RefWorks. Off campus users may need a group code to access RefWorks.

Interactive tutorial for RefWorks
Interactive tutorial for RefShare
Exporting tip sheet

Write-N-Cite screencast

RiskMetrics (formerly IRRC)                                         Available through WRDS

Two datasets providing details on the structure and practices of the boards of directors at a large number of U.S. companies, and information on takeover defense and other corporate governance provisions for major US firms.  

Span: 1990-2006 (varies with datasets)

Online manual for Directors dataset (WRDS login required)

Online manual for Governance dataset (WRDS login required)

Global new issues, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic alliances and venture capital financing information. Please note that M&A data from 1985 onwards is also available online from Thomson One Banker Deals and that private equity/venture capital data is also available from Thomson One Banker - Private Equity.

Span: 1962 onwards. Most recent 30 days unavailable.

In-depth guide for SDC  (102p PDF)

In-depth guide for VentureXpert through SDC Platinum (58p PDF)

Statistical data from the OECD: "OECD databases", "Statistical country profiles", "At a glance", as well as "OECD.Stat", a cross-database browser (recommended starting point for searches).

No IEA data. For OECD publications, see the library's catalogue.

Span: 1960 onwards.

Short guide to accessing statistics (1p PDF)

OECD.Stat guide (4p PDF)

M&A information including data, news stories and weekly market activity, as well as league tables of top deals, industry, and advisors. Also available from SDC Platinum.

N.B. Once in the platform, click on the Deals Analysis tab in the left frame.

Span: 1985 onwards.

Data on venture funds, private firms, executives, venture-backed companies and limited partners, as well as an analytics source for fund commitments, disbursements, statistics and performance. Also available through SDC Platinum.

N.B. Once in the platform, click on the Private Equity tab in the left frame.

Span: 1970 onwards.

Includes career, industry and company guides, as well as career advice and employee reviews. Individual registration is required to access the site.

Web of Science                                                                    Available off campus

Abstracts or full-text Working Papers from over 20 business schools (mainly North American, some European), including INSEAD.

Span: Varies by source.

Information on public and private companies in the Middle East and N. Africa, as well as industry news & analysis, country statistics, stock market data. Also includes IPO, Sukuk and Private Equity data.   N.B. Project data and Excel company downloads not available.