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Securities Market Magazine, №13, July 2003
RosBusinessConsulting develops new information product
The RBC Issuer Database is designed for providing specialists of the securities market with the most complete information about issuers on this market, their financial standing and activities, which is necessary for making decisions about purchase or sale of specific securities or analysis of issuer activities. RBC's experience in developing financial products and a considerable volume of accumulated archive information on the stock market has allowed for the creation of an information system able to meet the demands of the most sophisticated user. The completeness and reliability of information about issuers and securities supported by a constant inflow of new up-to-date information, makes it a very useful instrument for analysis. The RBC Issuer Database allows searching for the following information about an issuer:
- floating of securities;
- information about shareholders and affiliated companies;
- viewing and export of balance sheets of an issuer (under Russian standards) to Excel;
- performance indicators;
- issuer's news;
- receiving of analytical information:
- profiles of companies;
- technical analysis and graph plotting;
- commentaries of analysts on a specific issuer and on the financial market in general;
- displaying of quotes of shares;
- viewing of quotes displayed by other market participants.
The RBC Issuer Database contains:
- information about over 3,700 issuers;
- the total number of balance sheets is 17,000;
- the total number of news items is 50,000.
Unlike rival products, the RBC Issuer Database has a convenient interface, which allows for the quick and easy orientation in a huge volume of information:
- a convenient search system on issuers: a context search, a full-text search, and an industry filter;
- viewing of news about a selected issuer;
- going to a profile of an affiliated company or a shareholder directly from an issuer's profile;
- comparing of balance sheets for various periods;
- profiles of companies include their financial analysis;
- a ramified system of cross references giving prompt access to the information you are interested in.
The survey was prepared using materials of companies, information agencies and printed mass media.
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