Sa - Sources Of Financial Information

SOURCES OF FINANCIAL INFORMATION Security Analysis Semester 3

Financial Information constitutes of… • Data related to general economy • Data related to securities market • Data related to a specific company/commodity/asset • Data related to world economy and financial markets

Significance of Financial Information • Good information, good analysis, sound investment. • Good information, good projection. • Information about economy, market, policies and performance factors affecting security prices. • Primary information and secondary information. • Inside information.

Sources of Economic Data… 1. CSO – Monthly statistics of the production of selected industries in India. 2. The Economic Survey published by MoF. 3. RBI – The Weekly Statistical Supplement, Monthly Bulletin, Report on Currency and Finance and the Annual Report. 4. Non-governmental agencies – CMIE,

Sources of Market Data… • Stock Exchange’s Daily Official List/Bhavcopy • Stock Exchange Year Books/Directories • Monthly/quarterly/annual publication of SE. • RBI publications on fixed income securities • Financial dailies. • Fact sheets of MFs.

Sources of Company Data… • Annual Reports/offer documents/RHDP. • Stock Exchanges’ publication/websites. • Kothari’s Economic and Investment Guide of India. • Financial dailies. • RoC, MoCA.

Sources of International Economic Data… • IMF – International Financial Statistics • Publications of rating agencies such as Moody’s, Standard & Poor, Fitch etc. • Capital International Perspective – a Geneva Publication reporting on Capital Markets • Financial publications such as – The Economist, The WSJ, The NY Times,

New Avenues to Receive Information • CIMM – Prowess of CMIE. • CLINE – OLE. • VANS.

THANK YOU Mayank Patel