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What is Eikon?

Eikon is a financial economic data source and analysis tools. It consists of company and market related data. You can use it to find information on markets, stocks and stock indices, historical financial data, company, economic information and more.

Some key features of Eikon are:

  • Provides access to extensive business and financial information for listed companies, including:
    • Current data of exchange-traded instruments (stocks, warrants, options, futures, indexes, etc.)
    • news
    • economic data,
    • commodity data,
    • foreign exchange rates
    • interest rates 
  • Provides data visualization tools
    • charting tools
    • integration with Microsoft Office
  • Provides customizable and premade workspaces to view data
    • Users will be able to save and export views if they wish for later use.

Datastream

The Thomson Reuters Datastream Excel add-in is now part of Eikon, and offers financial historical data with time series content available from the 1950s. It enables you to explore relationships between data series, perform correlation and relationship analysis, test investment and trading ideas, research countries, regions and industries.

 

Access

We offer limited remote access to Eikon. Current members of the University can request a temporary login to access Eikon remotely by emailing library@sbs.ox.ac.uk. Logins are issued for three to seven days, depending on demand. Currently loans are for 3 days.

Training and Help

Refinitiv (formerly Thomson Reuters) provide lots of training videos and guides on their website.

Specific queries can be sent to Hal Kirkwood, who can send them on to Refinitiv.