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Databases for Investment Instruments:
Bonds

Bloomberg (MIT Sloan only. Workstation in E52-010)
World financial data, including prices for stocks, bonds, and other instruments.

CRSP (Requires MIT Certificates)
US governmental bonds, monthly, from 1925+.

Datastream (MIT only. Workstation in Dewey Library, E53-100. Workstations in Sloan Trading Room, E52-010)
Data on 68,000 fixed income instruments in 20+ countries, with hundreds of indices, lists of bonds and other bond-related information. (2 simultaneous users)

Global Financial Data
Current and historical data series covering 150+ countries. Coverage back to 1900 for some series.



See a more complete listing of resources for investment & finance data at MIT.

Specialized investment information services compile current and historical data on bonds. Information on bonds may be taken initially from a prospectus, with subsequent data compiled from bond markets.

Time series data may be used to

  • research an individual issue
  • compare bonds and groups of bonds
  • study yields over a specific period

 

 

 


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