Eikon-terminal started working at GSEM UrFU

13:07, February 1, 2022

Teaching staff, PhD students and students of the School got access to a vast array of financial and macroeconomic data

Graduate School of Economics and Management UrFU opens access to Eikon + Datastream database from Refinitiv (formerly part of Thomson Reuters). UrFU became the first university in the country outside of Moscow and St. Petersburg with such access. A computer through which students can work with the database is installed in the co-working space of the School’s campus at 25 Gogolya Street.

In the near future, a series of training seminars on working in the Eikon system will be organized.

If you have any questions about working at Eikon and participating in training seminars, please contact Dmitry Gladyrev, Director of GSEM Center for research support (d.a.gladyrev@urfu.ru).

Eikon with Datastream provides access to the following information arrays:

• more than 500,000 time series data and economic indicators, including data from the IMF and OECD for 185 countries with coverage up to 1950 and forecast values up to 2030;
• information on securities and indicators for more than 185 countries (60 markets);
• quotes for more than 75,000 actively traded (and 30,000 historic) securities traded on 64 developed and emerging markets;
• data on stock indexes for a 25-year period, covering 38 markets, 16 regions and 92 sectors;
• information about world currency and money market in real time
• information about debt markets in real time;
• fundamental information on 100,000 global companies;
• data on non-public (private) companies, including financial statements and multiples, at the level of a single organization or business unit;
• monitoring brokers' analytics by company or industry;
• collection of information on mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in certain regions and industries;
• obtaining data on the ownership structure and funds owning shares of the companies under study;
• obtaining access to the forecast data of the companies themselves (quantitative and qualitative indicators), as well as a detailed analysis of existing trends;
• and much more.  

The program interface allows to search through all available data, as well as export them in .csv format for further processing in MS Excel and other programs.