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SEDAR is the System for Electronic Document Analysis and Retrieval, the electronic filing system for the disclosure documents of public companies and investment funds across Canada. Includes public securities filings, annual reports, and mutual fund profiles.

EDGAR, the Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system, performs automated collection, validation, indexing, acceptance, and forwarding of submissions by companies and others who are required by law to file forms with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). All companies, foreign and domestic, are required to file registration statements, periodic reports, and other forms electronically through EDGAR.

S&P Capital IQ is a web-based platform that combines deep information on companies, markets and people worldwide. Over 62,000 public companies and 4.4 million private companies are profiled. Further, users can analyze company performance of industry-leading financials with over 5,000 individual data items, including industry-specific metrics on 17 industries. Tap into deep fundamental data covering equities, fixed income, capital structure, credit ratings, transactions, private equity firm profiles, ownership, business relationships and more.

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Factiva, a Dow Jones & Reuters Company, provides global content with multiple language interfaces and multilingual content covering nearly 8,000 sources. Factiva provides access to global and local newspapers, magazines, industry-specific journals and newsletters, newswires, media programs, and websites. Company Research Tools Perform company screening on a collection of nearly 24,000 global companies using 26 criteria. Current quotes and market data are available. Instrument types supported include global stocks, market indices, mutual funds and corporate bonds.

Lexis/Nexis Academic is a full-text database which focuses primarily on business, legal and news resources. Included in the database are law reports, company filings, journal and newspaper articles, broadcast transcripts, etc.

Mergent Online is a subscription-based service offering financial information, including annual reports, on over 10,000 U.S. public companies and 17,000 non-U.S. public companies. .

Adding to a collection of more than 300,000 global reports covering international and domestic companies for the last 20 years, Mergent Archives will deliver an additional 150,000 to 200,000 documents spanning nearly a century. It includes a simple, on-line screening tool allowing researchers to search across reports by company name, year, city and state, and document type.It also offers fully searchable text in every document. The database is continuously updated.

The Mergent WebReports is an online database that allows you to access a vast archive of corporate and industry related documents. Industry reports are available on a global level. WebReports contains more than 180,000 documents covering over 100 countries and industries using an easy to navigate and reliable system.

Canadian Financial Markets Research Centre (CFMRC) summary information database (or CFMRC TSX database for short) includes daily and monthly Toronto Stock Exchange trading information about specific securities as well as information on "price adjustments" such as dividends, stock splits, recapitalizations, etc. The database also includes daily and monthly indexes containing information on daily and monthly index levels as well as selected other financial markets information

Hosted on the Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS) platform, a comprehensive Internet-based data management system that allows researchers to easily retrieve information from a wide variety of financial, economic, and marketing data sources. Instructions for access are available at RULA's homepage, Research Databases tab, Browse A-Z Databases list.

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