Guides: Business, Investing, & Career Resources: Industries & Markets

Industry & Market Resources

ProQuest Business Databases This link opens in a new window
Search across 13 business-related ProQuest databases including ABI/INFORM, Banking Information Sources, Wall Street Journal, Asian Business and Reference, Dissertations, and more!

Business Insights: Essentials This link opens in a new window
Information on companies, markets, and industries from business and trade journals, newspapers and company reports. Includes detailed company and industry profiles including SWOT reports, market share reports, investment and financial reports, corporate chronologies, and interactive charts.

Business Market Research Collection
Conduct company, industry, economic and geopolitical market research with a range of profiles, articles, and reports.

Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Nexis Uni offers a unified search of more than 15,000 news, legal and business sources. Resources include the full text of national and international newspapers; magazines; wire services; business and financial information; U.S. laws, regulations, and legal cases.
Statista This link opens in a new window
A quantitative statistics portal with over 60,000 topics on agriculture, finance, politics, and many more. Few time series, but provides source citations for all statistics.
EconLit with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Index for over 600 journals (400+ full-text), books, documents, and working papers in the field of economics. 1969-present. Go shortcut = go/econlit.

Market Intelligence (Export.gov)
Includes Country Commercial Guides. Export.gov helps U.S. companies with international sales. It is a collaboration between the U.S. Dept. of Commerce’s International Trade Administration and 19 U.S. Government agencies.
U.S. Census Bureau - Business & Industry
Access to the Economic Census, County Business Patterns, Data by Sector (Retail, Wholesale, Services, etc.), Annual Survey of Manufactures, and much more. See also the Industry Statistics Portal.
U.S. Economic Census
Published every 5 years. The latest available data is 2007 (2012 data will begin appearing in March 2014). Provides data on business establishments and industries (sales/revenue, employees, payroll). Includes Survey of Business Owners; Business Expenses; Subject Series (includes product lines); and more. For earlier years in print, see the Government Documents Census of Manufacturers guide.
Census Business Builder
Small Business Edition. "Access to key demographic and economic data from the Census Bureau (as well as other third party data) in an easy-to-use, interactive map-based tool." Create profiles for an area and industry to help with starting or growing a business.
Census of Manufactures
Guide showing Middlebury's print holdings of this title and related titles.
StatsAmerica.org
Economic development data, profiles, and tools.
Financial Services Fact Book
Data on financial services including banking, insurance, mortgages, securities, and more. Includes lots of tables and graphs with sources cited.
Survey of Current Business
1994 to current online. Also see its supplement Business Statistics of the U.S.
Library has 1921 to current: Bound Periodicals HC101 .S87 and microfilm 227
FDIC - Industry Analysis
This section of the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. website contains links to banking statistics (including bank profiles); research & analysis; and failed banks. See the home page for additional information.