The CBOE (Chicago Board Options Exchange) Volatility Index® (VIX®) is a key measure of market expectations of near-term volatility conveyed by S&P 500 stock index option prices. The Vix Index was introduced in 1993 by Professor Robert E. Whaley of Duke University in his paper "Derivatives on Market Volatility: Hedging Tools Long Overdue," Journal of Derivatives 1 (Fall 1993), pp. 71-84. Coverage: 1996-previous year

The Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP) maintains the most comprehensive collection of security price, return, and volume data for the NYSE, AMEX, and Nasdaq stock markets. Additional CRSP files provide stock indices, beta- and cap-based portfolios. Monthly data goes back to 1925. Daily data goes back to 1962 depending on exchange traded. Also includes U.S. market indices, treasuries, and mutual funds, and a merged database with S&P's Compustat data.

Historical, global coverage of equities, stock markets, commodities, futures, currencies, options, bond markets, company financials, and economic data. The database is updated daily, and historical equity information goes back as far as 1973, though coverage varies across countries and types of content. If you need access to Datastream whiile the LIbraries are closed due to the pandemic, please contact sharmash@mit.edu

The Dow Jones Averages are comprised of The Daily and Monthly Dow Jones Composite (DJA), as well as The Dow Jones Industrial (DJI), The Dow Jones Transportation (DJT), The Dow Jones Utility (DJU), The Dow 10, and The Dow 5. The Total Return Indexes account for reinvested dividends. Data for the Total Return Indexes is available after 1987.

The Fama-French Portfolios are constructed from the intersections of two portfolios formed on size, as measured by market equity (ME), and three portfolios using the ratio of book equity to market equity (BE/ME) as a proxy for value.

Historical , financial, and economic time series data covering 200 countries and 20,000 data series.

FISD contains issue details on over 140,000 corporate, corporate MTN (medium term note), supranational, U.S. Agency, and U.S. Treasury debt securities and includes more than 550 data items. FISD provides details on debt issues and the issuers, as well as transactions by insurance companies. It is used to research market trends, deal structures, issuer capital structures and other areas of fixed income debt research.

OptionMetrics contains historical prices of options and their associated underlying instruments, calculated implied volatilities, and option sensitivities. Contains data on all US exchange- listed and NASDAQ equities and market indices, as well as all US listed index and equity options, starting from January, 1996.

The Penn World Table provides purchasing power parity and national income accounts converted to international prices for 188 countries for some or all of the years 1950-2004.

During the COVID-19 closure, SDC can be accessed via Thomson One database. Click on Screening & Analysis tab and follow the Deals module. Note that Thomson One only works with Internet Explorer version 11 or higher.

Formerly called Spectrum, Thomson Reuters Insider Filing Data (Forms 3, 4, 5, and 144) goes back to 1978; a cleansed version is available only back to 1986. Institutional (Form 13F) and 5 Percent Owner Databases go back to 1980; the Domestic Mutual Fund Database goes back to 1979.

TRACE consolidates transaction data for all eligible corporate bonds - investment grade, high yield and convertible debt. As a result, individual investors and market professionals can access information on 100 percent of OTC activity representing over 99 percent of total U.S. corporate bond market activity in over 30,000 securities.

Intraday transactions data (trades and quotes) starting in 1993 for all securities listed on the NYSE and AMEX, as well as NASDAQ and Small Cap issues. Sloan has access to milisecond data from 2014+