Research Guides: LCOB Foresight Challenge: Home

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This guide recommends sources to identify evidence for the Foresight Challenge. Please refer to your professor and syllabus for detailed information for the assignment.

News and Company Data

Google News
Search for news topics by keyword, person's name, or country. If you come across a paywall, you can search for the news article in Factiva.

Hoover's Online
Hoover's Online is a database of public and private company reports and Industry studies. Search by: Company name¸ Ticker symbol¸ Keyword Person's last name. Hoover's works best on Chome in Incognito mode and/or Microsoft Explorer.

Economic Data

Conference Board. Business Knowledge Research
A searchable database of full-text research reports on issues in business management and US and global economics. Research includes studies of F500 companies on business trends¸ leadership decisions¸ performance excellence¸ corporate governance¸ HR¸ productivity¸ CRM and more. Economics material includes US and global economic indicators and analysis and forecasts of regional¸ national¸ and international economic conditions. Full-text coverage from 1995 to date.
CRSP (Center for Research in Security Prices)
The Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP) maintains the most comprehensive collection of standard and derived security data available for the NYSE¸ AMEX and Nasdaq Stock Market. CRSP is a research center at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business¸ and maintains historical data spanning from December 1925 to the present. CRSP's trademark of unique issue identifiers tracks a continuous history of securities¸ providing a seamless time-series examination of the issue's history. CRSP's unparalleled accuracy and dedication to excellence has made CRSP data a staple of academic and commercial research and data analysis throughout the world.
Coverage: Current

FRED - Federal Reserve Economic Data
Search FRED for Federal Reserve data. If you search for FOMC, you'll get target range data.
World Bank Economic Data
The World Development Indicators is a compilation of relevant, high-quality, and internationally comparable statistics about global development and the fight against poverty. The database contains 1,600 time series indicators for 217 economies and more than 40 country groups, with data for many indicators going back more than 50 years.

Interesting Forecasting Websites

Five Thirty Eight
Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight uses statistical analysis to tell compelling stories about elections, politics, sports, science, economics.
The Economy is a Mess, so Why isn't the Stock Market
An article that gives insight into analyzing S&P Data.