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- Thomson Financial News – This package combines award-winning financial news coverage from MarketWatch with proprietary content from Thomson Financial to provide exclusive coverage of North American equities markets that's available to the legal industry only on Westlaw.
- Wall Street News – This multi-base collection draws from Thomson Financial News, MarketWatch, PR Newswire, AP, The New York Times, Business Wire, and more.
- Business publications – Westlaw subscribers can access articles from Forbes, Fortune, Harvard Business Review, The Economist, and Business Week, among many others.
- Newspapers – Westlaw provides same-day full-text coverage of The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Post, and The Chicago Tribune, and other top daily newspapers, plus thousands of international business sources. In addition, archived NYT articles are available from 1980 forward, with abstracts dating back to 1969.
- Newswires – Get continually updated news feeds from the Associated Press, PR Newswire, MarketWatch, Knight Ridder, Yonhap, Kyodo, Interfax, and hundreds more.
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- Dun & Bradstreet reports provide accurate, in-depth profiles of more than 17 million companies, so you can instantly find any company's annual sales, net worth, executives, employee counts, and more.
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- Experian reports provide detailed financial information on nearly 18 million U.S. companies, including credit scores and financial information on payments, collections, judgments, tax liens, collections, and more.
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- Thomson Financial Reports provide business and financial operations of public companies and some private companies. Report titles include M&A Deal Info, Poison Pill, and Extel Card company reports.
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- Due diligence reports are available for any publicly traded U.S. company and include financials, executives, M&A transactions, compliance, litigation risk factors, and more – all in a professional, ready-to-print format.
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- Company profiles are available on Westlaw for more than 450,000 companies, with information about executives, products and brands, competitors, and more.
- EDGAR SEC filings are updated twice daily on Westlaw and include 10-Ks, 10-Qs, 8-Ks, registration statements, prospectuses, tender offers, Forms 3, 4, 5, and other SEC filings.
- Investext analyst reports are available in an easy-reading format for more than 40,000 companies and 54 industries worldwide, and archived PDF versions with graphs, tables, and charts are available from 1997 forward.
- Historical stock price data for thousands of equities in nearly 100 exchanges are available for just about any date range you might need, along with market indices from Dow Jones, AMEX, NASDAQ and NYSE.
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Powerful research tools make quick work of your search.
- State-of-the-art search – The West Business and News interface provides case-sensitive search capabilities and automatically de-duplicates your search results. It also includes "More like this" functionality, and it gives you the ability to order WestClip alerts for your sources up to 24 times a day.
- Database QuickFacts – this feature answers the question, "How far back can I search on this publication?" It shows you the dates included in the archive and the availability of full-text results versus abstracts for more than 100 publications on the Business Information and News tab on Westlaw.
- Limit ALLNEWS – a screening tool that allows you to remove publication types from the ALLNEWSPLUS database and gives you the option of searching U.S. or non-U.S. sources.
- SmartTerms for Newsroom – an index to Newsroom taxonomy to simplify searching.
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