COMPUSTAT Data Coming Soon

LIM Data Warehouse - Q1 / 2003 - LIM is pleased to add COMPUSTAT^® to our repetoire of financial data offerings. Standard & Poor's is recognized as a leader in providing financial data on publicly traded companies in the U.S. and around the globe.

COMPUSTAT provides data that has been standardized by an international team of data analysts, a process which enhances the data by removing reporting variability and bias. LIM provides further data cleansing and verification so that our customers can count on receiving data that is consistently collected and presented.

Currently Available
The following COMPUSTAT data sets are currently available to you in the MIM with history as far back as 1950:

• COMPUSTAT North America Database - Primary, Supplementary, Tertiary Annual Files Organization in the MIM - TopRelation:Equities:S&PCompustatANN
  Note: Includes 350 data columns as well as history backdata 1 and 2.
• COMPUSTAT Specialty Database PDE Files Organization in the MIM - TopRelation:Equities:S&PCompustatPDE
• COMPUSTAT North America Database - Primary, Supplementary, Tertiary Quarterly Files Organization in the MIM - TopRelation:Equities:S&PCompustatQTR
  Note: Includes 120 data columns as well as backdata 1, 2, and 3.  
   

See the "COMPUSTAT Getting Started Guide" for details on the data sets and organization in the MIM.

The following COMPUSTAT data sets were added to the Market Information Machine (MIM) in Q1 2003:

• Full Coverage Annual Files
• Full Coverage Quarterly Files
• Merged Research Annual Files
• Merged Research Quarterly Files
• PDE Research Files

COMPUSTAT is a registered trademark of Standard and Poor's

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