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Global Business Databases

IBIS World
Select Global Industry Reports, or search on company name or line of business to see industry reports.
MarketLine
Search by country & city profile to get country analysis report and In-depth PESTLE Insights. It also includes graphs and charts for industry potential and economic indicators.
Mergent Online
Start typing your company name; Click on it when it comes up; Click the Company Financials tab to get financials and ratios as well as detailed information about capital structure and supply chain, products, and suppliers.
Statista Pro
This database contains statistics and data useful for understanding products, customer needs, and the competitive landscape of foreign countries and industries.
Mintel

Mintel analyzes consumers, markets, new products, and competitive insights on global and local economies.
Country Commercial Guides by International Trade Administration.

Global Economy

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The Global Consumption Database is a one-stop source of data on household consumption patterns in developing countries. It is designed to serve a wide range of users—from researchers seeking data for analytical studies to businesses seeking a better understanding of the markets into which they are expanding or those they are already serving.
CountryWatch This link opens in a new window
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Brings together in a concise and useful form, a key set of political, economic, and business information for 192 countries worldwide.
Provides a news service covering political, economic, corporate, and environmental issues and events on a country by country basis as they occur.
Updated continuously
Updated continuously
Principal Global Indicators (PGI) This link opens in a new window
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The PGI dataset provides internationally comparable data for the Group of 20 economies (G-20) and the five members of the Financial Stability Board that are not part of the G-20 to facilitate the monitoring of economic and financial developments for these jurisdictions.
It provides information on major economic indicators that is available at participating international agencies covering financial, governmental, external, and real sector data, with links to data available at websites of international and national agencies. For GDP growth, inflation, unemployment, payments balances, exports, imports, external debt, capital flows, commodity prices, and more, go to World Economic Outlook Databases(WEO)

The World Bank Global Economic Data
The World Bank web site offers a wide variety of economic, health and population statistics from around the globe. It covers international trade statistics, economic development data and country information. It provides access to a variety of analytical tools and software (ADePT, PovCalNet, PovMap and iSimulate) for interpreting and presenting data.
Economist Intelligence Unit
Country, industry and risk analysis

International News

Investopedia

Investopedia
Business research and analysis can be difficult if you are new to certain areas. For example, if you work primarily in marketing but need to deal with a finance related issue you could spend an enormous amount of time just identifying relevant concepts and what they mean. Here are my favorite sites for 'ramping up' quickly and easily when I am new to an area or concept.

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BUS 4150 Contemporary Issues in Global Business

Global Business Databases

Global Economy

International News

Investopedia