Basic information on financial databases: cook books, tips and tricks & economic news

This blog contains schematic easy to grasp - hands on - help in performing searches in economic databases, making work sets and making them inter-exchangeable between the databases.

* Disclaimer. I am not a finance professional. Most posts are the result of personal findings.

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8/21/2009

SDC, what is?

SDC Platinum contains databases with world wide information on financial transactions.
This blog focusses on:
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
    This database contains mergers and acquisitions of companies from USA from1979 and from other countries, starting 1985. Thomson Financial aims at a coverage of all companies in which 5% of the ownership of a company is involved in any transaction of $ 1 million or more. Next to that the database contains data on many other transactions.
  • Global New Issues (equities and bonds)
    This database contains info on introductions to stock exchanges by american companies from 1970 and on and from other countries starting 1983.
  • Venture Capital (VentureXpert)
    Information on company sectors (SIC, NAICS etc.) equities, companies, portfolios and individuals; statistics on industry sectors, (results, statistics and info about investments, IPOs, mergers and acquisitions.
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M&A: a tear sheet example (link)

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