LibGuides: Accounting and Finance: Financial News

Accounting and Finance News

These resources will help you stay up-to-date with the most recent developments in the fields of business, economics and finance

Newspaper Library Guide

Swansea University staff and students have free access to the newspaper archives below in addition to sites available anywhere on the Internet. There are links to all the newspaper resources we subscribe to (in addition to some free web resources) in iFind.

Newspapers
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The FT.com

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The Financial Times, one of the world’s leading business news organisations, is recognised internationally for its authority, integrity and accuracy. It provides essential news, comment, data and analysis for the global business community. You will need to create a personal account for which FT will be the data controller. Swansea University Library provides the subscription to this resource but does not control the registration process.
You will need to create a personal account for which FT will be the data controller. Swansea University Library provides the subscription to this resource but does not control the registration process.

The Economist

The Economist
The Economist is a weekly magazine covering business, finance, economics, science, technology and the arts.

Nexis

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Access to hundreds of newspapers and other news sources from many countries around the world, including the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the USA. Nexis contains the text of many newspaper articles from the early 1990s onwards. Some newspapers are available full text from the 1970s and 1980s.
To search Newspapers, click on News on the toolbar at the top. Or you can click on “All Content Types” and then select News before searching.

Newspapers

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The UKPressOnline site provides access to the full text of the Daily Express from 1900 to the present. It also includes the Sunday Express, Daily Star and Star Sunday. Full page facsimiles are provided so each issue can be viewed as it would have originally appeared (complete with photos, pictures, adverts etc.).

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Welsh Newspapers Online provides free access to about 120 Welsh newspaper publications up to 1919. It includes most of The Cambrian from 1804 to 1910.

Proquest US Newsstream This link opens in a new window
US Newsstream enables users to search the most recent premium U.S. news content, as well as archives which stretch back into the 1980s featuring newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites in active full-text format. For academic and public libraries, US Newsstream offers exclusive access to the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and co-exclusive access (with Factiva) to The Wall Street Journal. US Newsstream also offers one of the largest collections of local and regional newspapers, and is cross-searchable on the ProQuest platform.

Gale Primary Sources Platform This link opens in a new window
Cross searches the 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection, 19th Century UK Periodicals, British Library Newspapers, Picture Post and Times Digital Archive.