CHINA EXECUTIVE EDUCATION AT PENN

The Financial Crisis

FREE INFORMATION
The Financial Crisis Timeline St. Louis Federal Reserve. Daily update

*US Economy --
National Bureau of Economic Research

*US Companies --
Securities & Exchange Commission
New York Stock Exchange .
Annual Reports.

*US Industry --
US Economic Census.


Financial Glossary

Wharton Private Equity Review 2008.

>参考新闻 《参考新闻》xinhuanet.org请用代理浏览
Highlights of major Chinese Newspapers ( in Chinese)

PENN RESOURCES


* US Financial Industry Profiles.

1. Standard and Poor’s Net Advantage database. Industry Analysis, Comparative Company Statistics.

First , go to the Lippincott Library Home page.
Type net advantage in the Findit Box.
Select Industries tab in tool bar.
Select Financial Services, Diversified.

Also of Interest: Economic Brief and Trends & Projections (in left frame)

2. Hoovers database.
Industry background, key firms.
First , go to the Lippincott Library Home page. http://library.upenn.edu/lippincott
Type hoovers in the Findit Box

Select Industries tab in tool bar.
Select Industry Overviews.
Select Finance & Insurance.
Select any topic.

* US Company Information

Mergent Horizon database.
Financials, Competitors, Customers and more

FACTIVA database. (Dow Jones) It has more than 10,000 publications.

Step 1

A. Type: factiva in Findit Box
B. Select Factiva from list on the left side of the page.
C. Sign on with your Penn ID and password.
Now you are in the Factiva database.

D. Select SEARCH from top tool bar.
E. Change date to: IN THE LAST YEAR.

Step 2
Search on:
hl= financial crisis and re=usa and sn=(financial times or new york times or the economist or wall street journal ) and wc=>1200


(What is this? You are searching for articles with the headline or lead paragraph: (hl) = financial crisis AND region (re) = United States AND
source name (sn) = (financial times or new york times or the economist or wall street journal) AND word count (wc) equal or greater than 1200 words.


Step 3
A. You now have a list of about 28 articles.
B. Click in the box next to the articles you wish to view.
C. Click on the eyebrow icon above to display selected articles.
D. Now you can print, email or save the articles you have checked.

DO YOU WANT TO SEARCH FOR CHINESE LANGUAGE WALL STREET JOURNAL ARTICLES IN FACTIVA ?

Repeat Step 1
Step 2
Scroll down to LANGUAGES and Select: ALL LANGUAGES
Search on: financ$ and econom$ and re=usa and sc= wsjcn

What is this? You are searching for articles that have any form of these truncated words -- financial or financing, etc economy or economic, etc. AND region (re) = United States AND Source Code (sc) for the Wall Street Journal Chinese language edition.

Repeat Step 3.

ABI-PROQUEST DATABASE. Global business publications.
Select Chinese in Interface Language.
Search on : private equity [in Chinese characters] as SUBJECT
The resulting articles will appear in English. Use the Language Box to translate to Chinese.



PAIS database