Bloomberg: Nike bonds
Nike Inc., the world’s largest sporting-goods company, has raised $1 billion with its first new debt sale in a decade. The company is offering 10- and 30-year securities. Bloomberg functions show the bonds are priced with yields less than the consumer discretionary sector curve. Find case studies using the function FFM on your Bloomberg terminals.
UK and Business with EU
Business for Britain A new lobby group campaigning to press the government to renegotiate the UK’s deal with the EU. See news and the signatories on the website. For Official EU policy (covering funding and policy) see the SME portal UK government advice on business trading in the EU
Global information technology report 2013
Global information technology report Released by World Economic Forum, this report includes Networked Readiness Index Rankings, country data profiles and Case Studies of ICT being used for competitiveness and well-being. Other useful sites for world rankings of ICT are the ITU’s Measuring the Information Society report. This annual report enables benchmarking of development to take place. It […]
Islamic Countries: Basic Social and Economic Indicators
The SESRIC BASEIND (Basic Social and Economic Indicators) Database This website is maintained by the Statistical, Economic and Social Research and Training Centre for Islamic Countries (SESRIC), an organ of the organization of the Islamic conference. It provides free access to 266 socio-economic data variables for 57 OIC member countries, dating back to 1970. They […]
Bloomberg: Credit Default Swaps
Since the European Union ban on naked sovereign CDS in November, the volume of sovereign CDS trades has plummeted while the volume on financials CDS has increased, according to DTCC data. Bloomberg functions show that since January the spread of the European financials CDS index has widened as market participants may be using it as […]
Bloomberg guide on corporate governance
With the 2013 annual general meeting season underway, attention is being given to corporate governance issues, with companies taking an increasingly proactive role in engaging with their shareholders and improving communications. Bloomberg functions provide transparency and help users analyze issues such as executive pay and diversity. You can find case studies using the function FFM […]
Female FTSE report 2013
Acces the latest annual review of the number of women board members at the UK’s leading FTSE companies. From the Cranfield University website. Past issues from 2005 onwards are also available for comparison. http://www.som.cranfield.ac.uk/som/ftse
The Economics of Chocolate
The International Cocoa organization provides free access to basic statistics on prices see the monthly market reviews. It also has a section on the chocolate industry For trade try UNCTAD – there is a special report from 2008 for cocoa. You can also trace recent statistics fro cocoa and chocolate on the UNCTAD stats website. The Fairtrade […]
The Australian Women’s Weekly (1933 – 1982)
Freely available on National Australian web service, Trove: http://trove.nla.gov.au/aww This title has one of the largest circulations of popular women’s magazines in Australia. Its archive is of great relevance for students and researchers of social history as it includes colour images and contemporary advertising. Which are fascinating for tracing women’s history, advertising and popular culture […]
Economy of Cyprus
Find some back ground data on the ongoing crisis. Get Euro area debt data from the ECB: http://www.ecb.int/stats/gov/html/dashboard.en.html The World Bank data site has many useful graphs on Cyprus covering economic, finance and development issues: http://data.worldbank.org/country/cyprus The statistical service of Cyprus also has up to date economic data on its website: http://www.cystat.gov.cy/mof/cystat/statistics.nsf/index_en/index_en?OpenDocument The IMF has […]
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