Economic_View – Reference at Newman Library

Economy.com Is Now Economic View

Moody’s Analytics has decided to rebrand “Economy.com” as “Economic View.” The database asset on our A-Z list has been temporarily renamed “Economic View (formerly Economy.com).” After six months, the asset will just say “Economic View.” This is the third name change for this database since we started subscribing to it, as it was “Dismal Scientist” until 2016.

Please note that our subscription only includes access to the “U.S. / Canada” content. When you first go to the site, you’ll want to click “Global” and then “U.S. / Canada” from the menu to get to the content we have a license for.

Remote Access Problem with Economy.com

At the moment, remote access to Economy.com (formerly known as Dismal Scientist) is not working. I’ve got a support request in to the vendor and will report back when remote access is working again. On campus access is unaffected.

Dismal Scientist To Be Renamed as Economy.com

On April 25, Dismal Scientist will be renamed Economy.com. I’ve updated the label for the existing Dismal Scientist link on the databases page so that it now says “Economy.com (formerly Dismal Scientist)” and moved that to the E-F tab of the databases page. If your research guide has been using the Dismal Scientist database link, it should have been automatically renamed by the change I made.

For those students and faculty used to looking on the A-Z list for the link to “Dismal Scientist,” I’ve added a new temporary listing on the C-D tab of the database page for “Dismal Scientist is now called Economy.com.” That link also takes to you to the correct place.

By the end of the summer, I’ll remove this pointer listing for “Dismal Scientist is now called Economy.com.” At the end of the year, I’ll relabel the “Economy.com (formerly Dismal Scientist)” to just “Economy.com.”

If you run into any access problems, please let Mike or me know right away.

What moves the markets?

Ryan and I were just working with a student on an assignment where he had to find out what economic news affected the markets during a particular time period. Another student asked the same question yesterday in a slightly different way: What was happening in the economy that changed libor rates during one month in 2007? We found two approaches that work well.

Use Dismal Scientist. Choose the Country pages for the United States from the tab at the top of the page. Then use the drop down menu to pick a date. You can choose any month and year back to 2006. The results are both announcements of the release of economic indicators and market wrap-up news and analysis.

Use Factiva. In order not be be overwhelmed with too many stories, set up your search like this. From “Subjects” in the indexing boxes, open “Content Types” and click on “”Page One Stories.” Also from “Subjects,” choose “Economic News” and “and” it with your page one stories. Then pick a source. You can use just The Wall Street Journal, but I liked the results when I used the Dow Jones Publications from “Sources by Type.”