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INTERNATIONAL FINANCE

Maintained by Kevin Connor , Business Liaison Librarian
Compiled by Chet Bunnell, M.L.S., Reference Librarian
Updated: August 24, 2006

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This guide identifies resources for  International Finance found primarily in the Reference Department of Pius XII Memorial Library. Call numbers pertain to locations within Pius XII Memorial Library. This guide is not comprehensive; rather it should be supplemented with several other guides for Pius Library such as International Business, Bonds and Insurance.
 
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Dictionaries || Handbooks || Finding Books || Indexing and Abstracting Services || World Wide Web Sites
 

DICTIONARIES


Clark, John Owen Edward.  International Dictionary of Insurance and Finance.  Chicago:  Glenlake; New York:  AMACOM, 1999.
     Ref. HG 8025 .C53 1999

Downes, John.  Dictionary of Finance and Investment Terms.  5th ed.  Hauppauge, NY:  Barron's Educational Series, 1998.
     Ref. HG 151 .D69 1998

Friedman, Jack P.  Dictionary of Business Terms.  3rd ed.  Hauppauge, NY:  Barron's Educational Series, 2000.
     Ref. HF 1001 .F78 2000

Glossary Of Monetary Policy Terms
     http://www.e-analytics.com/glossary/glossar3.htm

Humphreys, Norman K.  Historical Dictionary of the International Monetary Fund.  2nd ed.  Lanham, MD:  Scarecrow Press, 1999
     Ref. HG 3881.I58 H86 1999

Shim, Jae K.  The Dictionary of International Business Terms.  Chicago:  Glenlake:  New York:  AMACOM, 1998.
     Ref. HD 62.4 .S524 1998

International Encyclopedia of the Stock Market.  Chicago:  Fitzroy Dearborn, 1999.
     Ref. HG 4551 .I57 1999

investorwords
     http://www.investorwords.com/

Shook, R. J. (Robert James).  The Wall Street Dictionary.  Franklin Lakes, NJ:  Career Press, 1999.
     Ref. HG 151 .S424 1999

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HANDBOOKS


Bloomberg World Market
     http://www.bloomberg.com/markets/index.html
Identifies information on current foreign equity, indexes foreign government bonds yields and prices, currency rates, and futures contracts.

BridgeTelerate.  Online system.  In-library access.
     Updated continuously.  Online access to real-time and historical trading information on more than 120,000 listed and over-the-counter stocks, futures, commodities and options.

The Dow Jones Guide to the World Stock Market.  3 vols.
     Ref. HG 4661 .D68 1999 
Information on more than 2,600 stocks from 26 countries.

Emerging Stock Markets Factbooks.  1996,1998- .
     Ref. HG 5993 .E57
Provides various time series of fundamental market data on more than 25 emerging stock markets.  Also includes regional indexes, composite indexes and industry indexes.

Handbook of World Stock Indices.  Austin, TX:  Meridian Securities Markets, 1997-. 
     Ref. HG 4636 .H27

Standard & Poor's creditweek.  Ephrata, PA:  Standard & Poor's, 1981-.
     Ref. HG4501 .S7662

World Financial Markets.  1978- .  Bimonthly.
     Ref. HG 3881 .W62
Reports on economic, financial, and monetary conditions and developments on foreign countries and regions.  Published by J.P. Morgan.

World Stock Exchange Factbook.  Morris Plains, NJ:  Electronic Commerce, 1995
Index table 2
     Ref. HG 4551 .W6753

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FINDING BOOKS USING LIBRARY CATALOG


Search the Saint Louis University Libraries Catalog, the SLU electronic library catalog, and MOBIUS, the Missouri Union Catalog, by author, title, keywords, author-title, subject, etc.  Use in the library or by remote access.  The Saint Louis University Libraries Catalog is available from Pius Library's Home Page.  Tip:  Always search Saint Louis University first.  If needed item(s) is/are not found, extend the search to MOBIUS.

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INDEXING AND ABSTRACTING SERVICES


ABI/INFORM (ProQuest). 1971- .  ProQuest.  In-library and remote access.
     Indexes and abstracts more than 1,300 journals and trade publications in all areas of business and management, many with an international focus.  Full text is available for more than 600 titles.

Academic Universe.  Web.  In-library and remote access.
     Updated continuously.  Covers news, business and legal information.  Excellent for news and company information.

Business Periodicals Index.  1958- .
     Index Table 4
Updated monthly, with annual cumulations.  A print subject index to approximately 350 periodicals in all areas of business.

Business & Company Resource Center.  1980- .  Gale.  In-library and remote access.
     Updated daily except Sunday.  Formerly General Business File ASAP.  Indexes approximately 1,000 business journals and trade/industry publications as well as 200,000 full-text company directory profiles and more than 50,000 full-text investment reports.  Approximately half of the journals and trade/industry publications are full text.  Also includes brief industry profiles, company histories, company financial statements, performance ratings, rankings, product and brand listings and association listings.

EconLit.  1969- .  SilverPlatter.  In-library and remote access.
     Updated monthly.  Produced by the American Economic Association, this is the major index for locating literature in economics.  It is the electronic equivalent of Journal of Economic Literature, Index of Economic Articles in Journals & Collections and Cambridge University Press Abstracts of Working Papers in Economics.  Indexes worldwide literature on economics from books, working papers, collective volumes and more than 300 major economics journals.

PAIS International.  1972- .  Ovid.  In-library and remote access.
     Updated monthly.  Produced by the Public Affairs Information Service, this database, indexes and abstracts books, journal articles, conference proceedings, reports, pamphlets, and government documents covering topics that are or may become the subject of legislation.  Subject areas include economic, political, and social issues, public administration, law, business and political science.  More than 1,600 journals published worldwide in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese or Spanish are selectively indexed each year.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch.  1989- .  In-library and remote access.
     Updated daily.  Access to archival articles back to 1989.  Go to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch Web site for late-breaking news and articles available only on their Web site.  Another point of access for this newspaper is LexisNexis Academic.  For articles between 1975 and 1987, use St. Louis Post-Dispatch Index (Index Table 14).

The Wall Street Journal (Eastern edition).  1986- .  ProQuest.  In-library and remote access.
     Updated daily.  This U.S. newspaper "is the financial newspaper of record.  It offers in-depth coverage of national and international finance as well as first-rate coverage of hard news" (text from site).  Indexing, abstracting and full text is available from 1986 forward.  For 1958-1985 coverage, see The Wall Street Journal Index (1958- .).  Monthly, with annual cumulations.  Index Table 3.  Index and abstracts to all articles in the 3-Star Eastern Edition of The Wall Street Journal.

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WORLD WIDE WEB SITES


FinWEB
     http://www.finweb.com/

Wachowicz's Web World
     http://web.utk.edu/~jwachowi/glossary.html

Yahoo! Financial-International News Headlines
     http://biz.yahoo.com/reports/world.html

Yahoo! Finance
     http://finance.yahoo.com

Global Financial Data
     http://www.globalfindata.com/
Current and historical data for the United States and more than 150 countries, including stock markets from 1690, exchange rates from 1590, interest rates from 1700, commodities from 1500 and inflation from 1264.

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Last modified on August 24, 2006, by Georgia A. Baugh M.A.L.I.S., M.A., Finance Liaison Librarian


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