Refinitiv Workspace
Refinitiv Workspace is a financial analysis platform providing access to a wide range of real-time and historical information aiming to cover the full spectrum of corporate finance and financial markets.
Datastream
Subject:
Financial markets:
- Bonds and fixed income,
- Forex and derivatives,
- Stock markets,
- Interest rates
Economics:
- Macroeconomics
Keywords:
equities, bonds, commodities, macroeconomics, futures, options, mutual funds, indices
Accessible to:
Aalto users, Aalto Students & Staff
Data source type
Data vendor
License
Academic and non-commercial research purposes only
Analysis unit
Financial instrument
Geographical coverage
Global
Time period coverage
1970s to present
Frequency
Daily
Format
XLSX
Description
Datastream is a comprehensive financial historical time series database, containing over 39 million individual instruments across all major asset classes globally. For equities, Datastream provides access to historical data for more than 107,000 active equities, covering 100 developed and emerging markets.
The database contains over 3,000 fields, including the following:
- price
- volume
- market capitalization
- earnings
- dividends
- corporate action data.
For many markets there is full coverage of all traded equity instruments, with over 50 years of history for the key developed markets. Data is sourced directly from exchanges. Coverage of global macroeconomics consists of 12 million economic time series, extending as far back as the 1900s for G7 countries, the 1970s for other major markets and the 1980s for smaller countries. The time series can be downloaded directly from Excel using the Datastream Add-in.
Distributor
Refinitiv
Acknowledgement
The Datastream subscription is financed by the Department of Finance at Aalto University School of Business.
Cite as
Datastream (n.d.). Refinitiv
Contact
Access to Datastream is managed by Nikolas Breitkopf, contact via [email protected].
See the Finance Database Wiki for more information.
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