Free Data on WRDS

WRDS has partnered with the Federal Judicial Center’s (FJC) to provide a litigation database and linking for all federal Appeals, Bankruptcy, Criminal, and Civil suits.

HIGHLIGHTS

• WRDS-developed linking tables for FJC include bankruptcy, civil, and criminal.
• Access tradeoffs between civil and criminal litigation pursued against firms, U.S. administrative agency appeals, and criminal justice issues including trial lengths, appeals, and penalties.
• COVERAGE FROM MID-1969

OTC

Access comprehensive, timely and accurate data available on the 10K securities that trade on the OTCQX, OTCQB and OTC Pink Marketplaces.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Access closing quote and trade data
• Key security reference data includes Security Type, Security Class, Security Status and Number of Market Participants
• COVERAGE FROM 9/1/2011

TRACE

Trade Reporting and Compliance Engine is FINRA’s over-the-counter (OTC) corporate bond market real-time price dissemination service—bringing transparency to the corporate bond market.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Access information on U.S. corporate bond market activity
• Access 30,000+ securities
• Coverage from 2002

Additional Free Data Available

• Bank Regulatory provides accounting data for Bank Holding Companies, Commercial Banks, and Savings and Loans Institutions.
• Blockholders contain standardized data for blockholders of 1,913 companies.
• CBOE (Chicago Board Options Exchange) Volatility Index is a key measure of market expectations of near-term volatility conveyed by S&P 500 stock index option prices.
• DMEF (Direct Marketing Educational Foundation) contains customer buying history for about 100,000 customers of nationally known catalog and non-profit database marketing businesses.
• Dow Jones is comprised of The Daily and Monthly Dow Jones Composite (DJA), Industrial (DJI), Transportation (DJT), Utility (DJU), the Dow 5 and 10.
• Fama French Portfolios are constructed from the intersections of two portfolios formed on size, as measured by market equity (ME), and three portfolios using, as a proxy for value, the ratio of book equity to market equity (BE/ME).
• FDIC contains financial data and the history of all entities filing the Report Of Condition and Income (Call Report).
• Federal Reserve Bank Reports contain Foreign Exchanges and Interest Rates data from reports published for the Federal Reserve Board and Coincident State Indexes from the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.
• IRI is the leader in providing point-of-sale information from more than 11,300 grocery stores, as well as some 7,500 drug stores.
• Penn World Tables provides national income accounts-type of variables converted to international prices. Philadelphia Stock Exchange’s United Currency
• Options Market offers a choice of the expiration date, strike price, etc, and any combination of 10 currencies available.
• SEC Disclosure of Order Execution provides electronic disclosures of basic information concerning their quality of executions on a stock-by-stock basis.

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