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Articles from Newspapers and Trade Press
- Factiva 1000s of Australian and overseas full text newspapers, including Financial Times and Wall Street Journal
- Business & Industry Articles from the business and trade press on companies, industries, markets and products
- Business Source Complete on EBSCOhost
Type the company name and use the drop menu to select the field "CO Company Entity" - Business Spectator free to register to Australian business news, analysis and commentary from Alan Kohler, Robert Gottliebsen and Stephen Bartholomeusz
- Share Tables from the Australian Financial Review lists regularly updated lists of top Australian public companies
Company details and Profiles
- Business Source Complete on EBSCOhost click on the link to Company Profiles
- Passport Global Market Information Database (GMID) is an integrated database providing key business intelligence on countries, markets and companies. It provides users with historical statistics and forecasts, analysis of consumers' lifestyles etc
- Datanalysis (Australian public companies) includes annual reports
- Factiva (click on the Companies/Markets tab)
- International Directory of Company Histories This can be useful for background on large companies. Type the company name in the search box.
- CAROL Company Annual Reports On-Line UK and Europe, access is free but you need to register
- Hoover's Information about more than 12,000 public and private companies worldwide. Includes free fact sheets about the Fortune 500 companies.
Financials and Statistics
- FinAnalysis (public Australian companies) provides a 12-year history of detailed financial information for all companies listed on ASX
- MINT Global (Bureau van Dijk) for advanced company research
- Australian Securities Exchange
- The Australian Financial Markets Report (AFMR) - The definitive statistical survey of Australia's financial markets providing unique insight in terms of market activity and concentration of turnover, market growth opportunities and trends.
- ASIC Search (Australian private companies) Australian Securities & Investments Commission. Limited information.
Click on the Search link to search ASIC's company database and registers.
On this page you'll find links to free searches, which include searching databases for information about companies and individuals registered by ASIC. The free National Names Index search provides basic details about a company. Fees apply for further company details and financial - Wren Research Investment Advisers and Daily Database
- Trading Room company news from Fairfax
- Yahoo Finance (Aus & NZ)
- Google Finance (North America)
- Money Ninemsn (Aus)
- MarketWatch from Shaw Stockbroking
- Stock Exchanges- Worldwide Links
Directories
- Dun & Bradstreet Global Reference Solution - Asia Pacific
If you want to learn more about searching for company information
- free Online Classes from the ASX about trading and investing in shares
- E Trade Australia Education Centre
- Deciphering Stockmarket Jargon from Baillieu Stockbroking
- Investment research: what really counts?
interesting article from Wren Research
Author: Jane O'Donnell (jodonnell@swin.edu.au)
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