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An overview of Significant Developments
- Significant Developments provide real-time summaries and categorizations of crucial, market-moving company events – a news analysis and filtering service to help simplify your workflow.
- Use Significant Developments (SigDev) information to perform in-depth research on specific topics like mergers, earnings, officer changes, and products.
- We have compiled over 4 million developments since the year 2000 and are growing at a rate of 3500 per week. All events are tagged with the topic, fielding, significance, and date/time of announcement.
Key Facts
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Geographical coverageGlobal
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HistoryFrom 2000 for United StatesFrom 2002 for United KingdomFrom 2002 for CanadaFrom 2005 for rest of the World.
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Data formatCSVHTMLJSONPDFPythonSQLTextUser InterfaceXMLZip Archive
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Delivery mechanismAPICloudDeployed/Onsite ServersDesktopDigital FilesExcelFTPWebsite
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Data frequencyContinuous
Features & Benefits
What you get with Significant Developments
- Create and monitor customized alerts for the companies and events.
- Currently cover over 63,000 active companies, including the constituents of all major indices and frontier/emerging markets of Central and Eastern Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa.
- Integrate qualitative events information into quantitative models and also help identify correlations between news events, fundamental data and price movements.
- See historical trends for clues on future performance, or to inform investment decision making and decisions on portfolio holdings.
- Create custom reports for a portfolio of companies, regions, industries and news topics, while intelligent tagging of developments and deep histories make Significant Developments a powerful addition to quantitative models.
- Market & Industry Views: Users can view events from a geographic or industry perspective. This allows a top-down analyst to take action based on an economists’ forecast by conducting specific market/industry research that includes both current and historical views of significant corporate events.
- Compare Guidance with Estimates: With over 3,000 new pre-announcements added every earnings season, clients can compare company guidance against the ‘market view’ contained in our world-class Estimates database. Guidance history from 2002 allows accurate back-testing and historical analysis.
- Time Management: Investors can instantly catch up on recent news affecting their portfolios in the same amount of time required to read one press release.
How it works
Accessing the dataset
This dataset can be used by the following products. Talk to us to learn more about different packages and offerings.
Refinitiv Data Platform
The Refinitiv Data Platform delivers a single, consistent data experience to access, distribute and build with Refinitiv and third party data. With cloud-enabled platform capabilities and flexible distribution options, the Refinitiv Data Platform enables faster deployment of applications, greater scale with workflow-critical analytics and a reimagined approach to technology innovation, data distribution and management
- Data Formats:
- XML
- Zip Archive
- HTML
- Delivery Mechanisms:
- FTP
- API
- Service Frequencies:
- Daily
Eikon
Refinitiv Eikon delivers a powerful combination of information, analytics and exclusive news on financial markets – delivered in an elegant and intuitive desktop and mobile interface.
- Data Formats:
- CSV
- XML
- JSON
- User Interface
- Python
- Delivery Mechanisms:
- API
- Desktop
- Excel
- Service Frequencies:
- Daily
Refinitiv Datastream
Welcome to Datastream, our historical financial database with over 40 million individual instruments or indicators across all major asset classes, including 15 million economic indicators. It features 100+ years of data, across 175 countries – the information and tools you need to interpret market trends, economic cycles, and the impact of world events.
Datastream is available via Datastream Advance (EOL Sept 2021) or via Eikon DFO, Eikon R&A, Refinitiv Workspace for Students, Refinitiv Workspace for Academics, Refinitiv Workspace for Wealth. It is expected to be included in many more variants of Refinitiv Workspace during 2021.
Datafeed access is via Datastream Data Loader & Datastream Web Service (which includes Matlab, EViews, Python, R & codebook integration)
Client desktop tools include
DFO (Datastream for Office)
Datastream Charting, including Chartbook
Navigator - Search & Navigation tool
- Data Formats:
- CSV
- Delivery Mechanisms:
- FTP
- API
- Service Frequencies:
- Daily
Thomson ONE
Thomson ONE Wealth is a complete front-to-back-office workflow solution, clients can integrate with in-house and third-party applications for effortless navigation. This enables firms to scale and adapt to the ever-changing environment with ease and agility.
- Data Formats:
- HTML
- Delivery Mechanisms:
- Website
- Service Frequencies:
- Daily
Refinitiv On Demand
Refinitiv On Demand is a delivery channel for Refinitiv content and capabilities enabling clients to customize the information they want to receive on a bespoke basis. Refinitiv On Demand provides a consultative approach to provide efficient, timely custom solutions to help clients make informed decisions. The final reports and analysis are delivered to clients via email.
Note: Refinitiv On Demand is not available as part of a Refinitiv Access deal. Please consult your account manager.
- Data Formats:
- Text
- Delivery Mechanisms:
- Digital Files
- Service Frequencies:
- On-demand
Refinitiv Quantitative Analytics
Refinitiv Quantitative Analytics – a powerful, scalable platform to manage, maintain and integrate quantitative analysis and investment data. It is available with the following deployment options:
o Deployed (On Premise)
o Deployed (VM Hosted)
o Cloud (Azure)
o Cloud (Snowflake)
- Data Formats:
- SQL
- Delivery Mechanisms:
- Deployed/Onsite Servers
- Cloud
- Service Frequencies:
- Daily
Workspace
Refinitiv Workspace delivers a powerful combination of information, analytics and exclusive news on financial markets – delivered in an elegant and intuitive desktop and mobile interface.
- Data Formats:
- CSV
- XML
- JSON
- User Interface
- Python
- Delivery Mechanisms:
- API
- Desktop
- Excel
- Service Frequencies:
- Daily
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