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Bloomberg Professional: Real-time and historical financial news and information on individual equities, stock market indices, fixed income securities, currencies, commodities, and futures for both international and domestic markets. Visit the Bloomberg website for more information. Three Bloomberg terminals are also available in the Business and Economics Library. Visit http://www.library.illinois.edu/bel/ for more information.  

Crystal Ball: Since 1986, Oracle's Crystal Ball has been providing decision analysis software and solutions that help analysts, managers, engineers, and other professionals to make better business decisions. Crystal Ball is a graphically oriented forecasting and risk analysis program that helps deliver better outcomes by defining risk and uncertainty. By applying Monte Carlo techniques, Crystal Ball transforms spreadsheets into dynamic models that address almost any problem involving uncertainty and risk. Visit the Crystal Ball website for more information.

Capital IQ is a web- and Excel-based research platform that combines information on companies, securities, and markets worldwide with tools for fundamental analysis, surveillance, and trend analysis, financial modeling, market analysis, screening, and targeting. Capital IQ is deployed at over 2,000 client firms including many of the world's most successful investment banks, hedge funds, private equity firms, consultants, and corporations. Visit the Capital IQ website for more information.

The Moody’s KMV RiskCalc and CreditEdge are advanced credit analysis tools. CreditEdge assesses counterparty risk associated with publicly traded companies from around the world. It provides lenders and investors with an objective calculation of a firm's probability of default over a given time period. In addition, the CreditEdge mainframe offers comprehensive portfolio coverage management, historical credit changes, and detailed scenario analysis to determine the credit worthiness of any company or industry in the economy.  RiskCalc enables greater precision and accuracy in evaluating private firm credit risk by combining financial statement and equity market-based information. Visit Credit Edge or visit RiskCalc for more information.

Trading Technologies’s X_Trader 7, is an advanced derivatives trading software. With TT Trainer (a trading simulation tool) the exchanges are real, the products are real, price feeds and market depth are real - and live within milliseconds. Visit the X_Trader website for more information.

Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS). Provides instant access to important databases in the fields of finance, accounting, banking, economics, management, marketing and public policy. Visit the WRDS website for more information.

The Morningstar Encorr software offers tools to research, create, analyze, and implement optimal asset allocation strategies within a single platform. The software provides support to anyone who develops in-depth asset allocation strategies including investment consultants, fund of fund managers, and portfolio managers. Visit the Encorr website for more information.

Morningstar Direct is a web-based research platform with global coverage of performance and holdings analysis of mutual funds, exchange traded funds, hedge funds, money market funds, offshore funds, and stocks. Visit the Morningstar Direct website for more information

Analytica: Analytica is an advanced modeling software for creating, analyzing, and communicating decision models. Its efficient Monte Carlo lets you quickly evaluate risk and uncertainty, and find out what variables really matter and why. The product uses a visual, concept-driven approach for corporate planning and strategy development. Visit the Analytica website for more information.

 
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