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Asia, Pacific-Rim, ASEAN
- Asia Inc. Online
- Includes an internet directory of resources.
- Asia Trade
- Links to resources related to trading in Asia including: Conventions and Trade,
Exhibitions, Importers & Exporters, Insurance Companies, Banking & Financial
Institutions, Real Estate Investments, and more.
- Japan Financials
- Commplete detailed financial statement data for all companies listed on the Tokyo Stock
Exchange.
- JETRO
- Japan's External Trade Organization, provides a web site full of useful data and
resources, including Jetro's Market
Report Database.
Canada
- Canadian Filings Database - SEDAR
- "The SEDAR Database contains publicly accessible information and documents filed
with the securities commissions by Canadian public companies and mutual funds as well as
related third parties, all of whom are required to file disclosure documents and other
information electronically."
- Strategis
- This site was developed by Industry Canada and provides a searchable database of Canadian companies,
business information for each sector, a list of
business support
services, and a guide to business laws and
regulations. Trade
Data Online provides Canadian and US trade data.
- Report on Business Magazine
- From the Globe and Mail, includes links to the Top 1000 (Canada's major companies and
industries ranked by revenue, profits and return).
Eastern Europe, CIS, Russia
- Business, Economics, and
Law sources
- From REESWeb at the University of
Pittsburg.
- RENIC
- The Russian and East European Network Center from the University of Texas at Austin.
Searchable by keywords or browse by country.
Emerging Markets
- Emerging Markets -- The Newspaper of Record
for the World's Development Bank Meetings
- "Emerging Markets is the daily newspaper of record for the joint annual meetings of
the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, as well as the annual meetings of the
Inter-American Development Bank, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, African
and Asian Development Banks."
- Emerging Markets Companion
- Distinguised by its focus on Latin American debt instruments, this site has asset
pricing, research, news, and more for brady bonds, euro and non-euro bonds.
- Financial Times
- The FT site includes useful features that can be used for acquiring emerging markets
intelligence. Requires registration. Click on Contents to access the front page. The
information pertinent to emerging markets can be found under Company Briefing as
well as the World Shares and News & Analysis subheadings under the
Equities heading. Company Briefing allows for company searching by industry sector of a
specific country. World Shares allows for searching by share name with options to refine
by country and stock exchange.
- JP Morgan
- Research focuses on debt markets in emerging economies.
- Emerging Markets Bond
Index Plus - Created in 1993, EMBI tracks total returns for traded external debt
instruments in emerging markets such as Brady Bonds and Eurobonds.
- Emerging Local Markets
Index - Going back to 1993, the ELMI tracks total returns for money market instruments
in local currency in emerging markets. It includes treasury bills, FX forwards, and
deposits. (PDF).
- Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI)
- Includes Market Performance charts, News, Press Releases, Research MSCI Index
Information (Taiwan, Singapore Free), MSCI RISK Indicators, MSCI Value and Growth Indices
MSCI Small Cap and Extended Indices and other information.
- Trends in Developing Economies
- Trends in Developing Economies (TIDE) provides brief reports on most of the World Bank's
borrowing countries. This compendium of individual country economic trends complements the
World Bank's World Development Report, which looks at major global and regional economic
trends and their implications for the future prospects of the developing economies. TIDE
digests information from national sources and adds staff commentary to explain recent
developments. Experimental access to Trends in Developing Economies is available through
World Wide Web search interface (linked under: Archival and Access Information").
Europe
- Companies House
- The organization with which UK public companies must file -- approximate equivalent to
the SEC in the US.
- Company Guide
- Iincludes financial information on publicly traded British companies. The information
includes 5 Yr Summary P&L with Balance Sheet, Daily Share Price, Brokers' Consensus,
Shareprice Graph, Advisers, Directors, Major Shareholders, Registrars, Contact Details,
and Key Dates.
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- Euromoney
- This site provides numerous resources including the current issue of EuroMoney magazine, full text search, and data on
countries and markets. Content is free, but you are asked to register to use the service.
- Euro Pages
- One can search for companies by industry and geography. Also has statistical and textual
information on European industry sectors.
- Euro - the single currency
- Various related links.
- Maastricht Treaty
- Text of the treaty.
- Western Europe and the European
Union Information Resources
- From the Lehman Library at Columbia University.
- European Case Clearinghouse
Online
- "The European Case Clearing House maintains three separate collections of case
materials:- 1. Harvard Business School (HBS) 2. University of Western Ontario (UWO) and 3.
The European Case Clearing House (ECCH). Collectively these represent over 10,000 items
and include case studies, videos, technical notes, industry notes, case software and
course modules.
- UK Equities Direct
- Financial information on publicly traded British companies. The information includes 5
Yr Summary P&L with Balance Sheet, Daily Share Price, Brokers' Consensus, Shareprice
Graph, Advisers, Directors, Major Shareholders,Registrars, Contact Details, and Key Dates.
General Sources
- Guide to Foreign Direct
Investment
- Use this as a starting point for finding print and electronic sources of information in
the Watson Library.
- Bureau of Export Administration
- Resources and Regulations.
- International Trade Web Resources
- Maintained by the Federation of International Trade Associations, this site is a good
place to begin research on international trade.
- Web resources for international
economics & business
- Comprehensive coverage of international business and economics.
- Trade Compass: Gateway to International
Commerce
- Country Studies: Area Handbook
Series
- From the Library of Congress, this site provides extensive information on foreign
countries. Searchable database.
- Currency Converter
- From OANDA, this converter allows you to specify conversions by Interbank rate + various
percentages, as well as credit card and cash rates. Currency conversions can be calculated
back to January 1990.
- Fortune Global 500
- Arranged by rank, but also searchable.
- GRA Research Hotlinks
- A collection of links for political risk research. Bypass the first part of the page
(with basic search tools )to reach links for background and data on countries, as well as
links to sites that report on risk.
- Harmonized Codes
- Export/Import commodity data available in the National Trade Data Bank (NTDB) must be
searched useing the 10-digit harmonized code. Also available at this site is Standard
Industrial Classification Code (SIC)
lookup. From the Trading Floor.
- Intergovernmental Organizations
- Links to Intergovernmental Organizations.
- Intergovernmental Organizations
Publications
- This is a gateway to the ready reference sources of IGOs such as the European Bank for
Recontruction & Development, the IMF, etc.
- InfoManage - International Trade
- Comprehensive selection of international Trade resources arranged by region.
- IDB - International Data
Base
- The International Data Base (IDB) is a computerized data bank containing statistical
tables of demographic, and socio-economic data for all countries of the world.
- International Trade Center
- The International Trade Centre UNCTAD/WTO (ITC) is the focal point in the United Nations
system for technical cooperation with developing countries in trade promotion. ITC is
directly responsible for implementing UNDP-financed projects in developing countries and
economies in transition related to trade promotion.
- International Federation of Stock Exchanges
- Includes links to exchanges, members' market structure (.xls), and links to other
international stock exchange sites.
- International Monetary Fund
- This site includes IMF publications, featuring links to full text publications listed
alphabetically, IMF Working Papers in
full text, as well as the catalog of
IMF publications in PDF.
- International Trade Administration
- Resources include statistics, information on regions, industries, hot topics and more.
- Investor Communications Business Inc
- "Annual Reports mailed FREE to you anywhere in the world. Financial information
available for over 3,500 U.S., Canadian, and U.K. companies. "
- Investor Relations Information Network
- This site provides access to online annual reports (PDF format) for companies, as well
as links to company home pages and much more.
- Institute for Management Development
- Publishes the World Competitiveness Report, parts of which are excerpted at this site.
- International Business Resources on the
WWW
- Extensive links for international business from the Center for International Business
Education & Research (CIBER) at Michigan State University.
- International Organizations on
the Web
- Alphabetic Index or subject index.
- IC2 Institute
- "The Institute provides unique approaches to the study of business, technology,
political, social, and economic issues by studying unstructured problems, developing
multidisciplinary think teams and going beyond functional boundaries, linking theory with
practice, and providing opportunities to think anew within a university environment."
- Market Access Database
- From the EU, provides News of the
Commission's Market Access Strategy, as well as Market Access Sectoral and Trade Barriers
Database arranged by country and GATS
Info-Point, containing a a complete guide to the General Agreement on Trade in
Services (GATS), and more. Some additional services are restricted to members.
- Market Access Information
- Arranged by country, this site provides country commercial guides, and country reports
on economic and trade policy. From the Trade Compliance Center, U.S. Dept. of Commerce.
- Market Places and Locations
- MSU-Ciber:International Business
Resources on the World Wide Web
- This directory is being maintained by the Michigan State University - Center for
International Business Education and Research (CIBER).
- NAFTA
- Text of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
- NAICS
- The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) provides common industry
definitions for Canada, Mexico, and the United States. The new NAICS system will replace
the countries' separate classification systems with one uniform system for classifying
industries. In the United States, NAICS will replace the Standard Industrial Classification
(SIC) system.
- OECD Online
- Contains links to documents, the publications catalog, statistics, news, and information about member countries, with a searchable index.
Also see The Centre for Co-operation with
Non-Members--OECD, which serves as the "focal point for the development of policy
dialogue between OECD and non-member economies." The site provides information about
programs carried out by the Center such as Emerging Market Economy Forum, the Transition
Economy Program, and various country and regional programs. Also available at the site is
Transition Brief, a quarterly newsletter that provides updates on the activities of The
Centre. Visitors to the site will also find a list of publications and free documentation.
The Electronic Data Service at Columbia
University provides access to the OECD International
Sectoral Database.
- Office of the U.S. Trade Representative
- Access reports, including the Study
on the Operation and Effect of the North American Free Trade Agreement[released July
16, 1997, 140 pages in length], the National Trade Estimate Report on Foreign Trade
Barriers, and the Trade Policy Agenda & Annual Report of the President of the
United States on the Trade Agreements Program. Also available from this site are
transcripts of speeches and
Congressional testimony by USTR Officials, and Agreements Negotiated by the U.S.
Trade Representative. Most files are in PDF format.
- Transparency International
- Transparency International is a non-governmental organisation dedicated to increasing
government accountability and curbing both international and national corruption.
- World Bank
- The resources here include a Online Library;
electronic version of print publications.
- World Competitiveness Report
- This site contains excerpts from the most recent World Competitiveness Report.
- Worldclass: World Business
Directories
- Contains annotated links to international, regional and national business directories.
- World Economic
Outlook
- The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has just released the May 1998 issue of World
Economic Outlook. In this report, the IMF provides economic growth forecasts and other
economic indicators for various regions in the world. Other topics covered in the report
include an analysis of the global impact of the Asian economic crisis, the effect of
exchange rate developments on international business cycles, and identifying and
predicting financial crises and fiscal reform in transition economies.
- World Trade
Agreement
- The Final Act and Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization. (including GATT
1994), Uruguay Round. Text is searchable.
- World Trade Organization
- Resources include research
and analysis and news releases.
Latin America
- LATCO
- Tools of the Trade - Useful Sites for International Trade with Latin America.
- LANIC
- Internet Resources from University of Texas at Austin.
Middle East and Africa
- Africa Area Studies Resources
- A collection of resources from Lehman Library.
- Dun & Bradstreet Israel - Dun's 100 -
Israel's Largest Enterprises
- Site is free but requires registration.
- Mbendi - Information for Africa
- Middle East Area Studies Resources
- From Lehman Library.
- Middle East Internet Directory
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Companies arranged by country and industry.
Lists of Top Companies
Fortune 500. Fortune. http://www.fortune.com/fortune/fortune500/
Fortune Global 500. http://www.fortune.com/fortune/global500/
FT500. Financial Times. http://www.ft.com/FT500
Business Week Global 1000. http://www.businessweek.com/1998/28/global1k.htm
Forbes 500. Forbes. http://www.forbes.com/tool/toolbox/forbes500s
Forbes International 800. Forbes. http://www.forbes.com/tool/toolbox/int500
Inc. 500. Inc. Magazine. http://www.inc.com/500 |
