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Standard & Poor's Daily News

Last Loaded on Web: Thursday, May 01, 2008

Last Update To Bluesheet: January 11, 2006

Bluesheet Contents     PDF version

File Description Dialog File Data Special Features Sample Record Sort Rates
Subject Coverage Database Content DIALINDEX/OneSearch Categories Basic Index Rank
Tips Document Types Indexed Contact Additional Indexes Map
Print Counterparts Geographic Coverage Terms and Conditions Limit Predefined Format Options


File Description [top]

Standard & Poor's Daily News reports financial information and business news on more than 12,000 publicly owned companies in which there is any degree of investor interest. The database is a major source of financial information for competitive analysis and investing. It is the equivalent of the print Standard & Poor's Corporation Records service, "Daily News" section.



Tips [top]

USE FILE 132

for financial information and news on public companies.

USE EN=

to search for specific events

     S EN=INITIAL PUBLIC OFFERING

EXPAND CO=

to determine company spelling.

USE RANK

to determine types of events available for companies.

     S CO=ABC; RANK EN


Subject Coverage [top]

Use Standard & Poor's Daily News for accessing the most current corporate news, plus additional financial stories dating back to mid-1985; Updating Standard & Poor's Corporate Descriptions plus News (File 133) on a daily basis; Locating specific types of news stories using the following event names (EN=) or event codes (EC=):

  • Airline Statistics (AIR)
  • Annual Earnings (ANE)
  • Annual Reports (ANR)
  • Annual Reports/Annual Earnings (ANR)
  • Auto Statistics (AUT)
  • Backlog (BAC)
  • Business Failures (BKC)
  • Capital Spending Plans (CSP)
  • Company Description (COD)
  • Change of Control (COC)
  • Charter/Certificate of Incorporation (CHC)
  • Contracts (CON)
  • Corporate Restructuring (COR)
  • Daily News Financials (QDD)
  • Dividend Changes (DIV)
  • Exchange Offers (XCH)
  • Financing (B&N)
  • Financing (Credit Agreements) (FIN)
  • Going Private (GOP)
  • Initial Public Offering (IPO)
  • Interim Earnings (INE)
  • Interim Reports (INT)
  • Leveraged Buyouts (LBO)
  • Lines of Business Results (LBR)
  • Liquidation (LIQ)
  • Litigation (LIT)
  • Management Changes (MMC)
  • Management Discussion/Letters (MDA)
  • Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A)
  • Name Changes (NCG)
  • New Offerings (OFF)
  • New Products/Product Development (NPP)
  • Operating Statistics (OPS)
  • Performance Estimates (PFE)
  • Preferred & Debt Offerings (BOF)
  • Pro-Forma Reports (PFR)
  • Provisions of Securities (SDI)
  • Qualified Institutional Buyer (QIB)
  • Redemptions (RDT)
  • Retail Sales (RDT)
  • Rights Offerings (RIO)
  • S&P Ratings (RTG)
  • SEC Registrations (REG)
  • Spin Offs (SPO)
  • Stock Buybacks (BBK)
  • Tenders (TDS)
  • Trading Data (STD)
  • Utility Rate Changes (URT)


Print Counterparts [top]

  • Standard & Poor's Corporation Records


Dialog File Data [top]

Dates Covered: July 1985 to the present
File Size: 1,064,404 records as of January 2006
Update Frequency: Daily


Database Content [top]

  • Numeric Data
  • Complete Text Records


Document Types Indexed [top]

  • Press Releases
  • SEC Filings
  • Annual Reports


Geographic Coverage [top]

  • International


Geographic Restrictions [top]

  • None


Special Features [top]

  • ERA Available (REDIST only)
  • Graduate Education Program
  • KWIC and HILIGHT Available
  • DIALOG Alert Available
  • CURRENT Feature Available


DialIndex/OneSearch Categories [top]

ACRONYM CATEGORY NAME
MANEWS Mergers and Acquisitions News
MERGEACQ Mergers and Acquisitions
NEWSCO Company News
NEWSDAIL News, Current - Daily Updates
TICKERNE Company News Files with Ticker Symbols


Contact [top]

STANDARD & POOR'S DAILY NEWS is produced by Standard & Poor's Corporation. Questions concerning file content should be directed to:

Standard & Poor's Corporation
Online Customer Support
25 Broadway
New York, NY 10004

Telephone: 212-438-2000
800 Line: 1-800-852-1641 x3


Terms and Conditions [top]

For Dialog's Redistribution and Archive Policy, enter HELP ERA online. The following terms and conditions also apply.

These databases (the "Databases") are copyrighted by McGraw-Hill, Inc. Standard & Poor's ("S&P") is a division of McGraw-Hill, Inc. The Databases are provided for the customer's internal use only and may not be duplicated or redistributed in any manner without the prior written permission of S&P. However, redistribution within a customer's organization in a work group computing environment is permitted with respect to Standard & Poor's Daily News, Standard & Poor's Register - Biographical, and Standard & Poor's Register - Corporate only, provided customer retains the appropriate copyright notice on all materials. Because of the possibility of human or mechanical error by our sources or by S&P, neither S&P nor McGraw-Hill, Inc. guarantees the accuracy, adequacy, or completeness of the Databases and is not responsible for any errors or omissions contained in such Databases. The customer acknowledges that its access to the Databases may be discontinued at any time in the event that S&P terminates its agreement with Dialog.

NEITHER S&P NOR McGRAW-HILL, INC. MAKES ANY WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, AS TO RESULTS TO BE OBTAINED BY ANY PERSON OR ENTITY FROM USE OF THE DATABASES, INCLUDING ANY WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. SUCH DATABASES ARE PROVIDED TO CUSTOMER ON AN "AS IS" BASIS. IN NO EVENT SHALL S&P AND/OR McGRAW-HILL, INC. HAVE ANY LIABILITY FOR LOST PROFITS OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF USE OF THE DATABASES, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. A REFERENCE TO A PARTICULAR COMPANY IN THE DATABASES IS NOT A RECOMMENDATION TO BUY, SELL OR HOLD ITS SECURITIES.

The customer agrees to indemnify, defend and hold harmless S&P and/or McGraw-Hill, Inc. from any and all damages, liabilities, costs, charges and expenses, including reasonable attorneys' fees, arising out of any material breach of these terms and conditions by the customer, including any use of the Databases by a third party which is not expressly authorized in writing by S&P. These terms and conditions are in addition to those included in the Dialog customer agreement. In the case of any conflict between these terms and conditions and the Dialog customer agreement, these terms and conditions shall prevail.


Dialog Standard Terms & Conditions apply.


SAMPLE RECORD [top]

                           

Tabular Record

 
    DIALOG(R)File 132:S&P's Daily News 
    (c) 1997 McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. All rts. reserv. 
     
     
     1155030 
  /CO, CO=, PD=    STARBUCKS CORP.  930304 
     
  /TI     Interim Consol. Earns.: Dec. '92- 
     
     
       Thou. $ 
  /TX     3 Mos. to:                      Dec. 27 '92         Dec. 29 '91 
       Net sales                            38,564              22,483 
       Net bef. tax                          5,169               2,503 
       Income tax                            1,972                 914 
       Net income                            3,197               1,589 
       *Sh. earns.                           $0.22               $0.15 
     *Based upon avge. shs. after dedctg. pfd. divds. (1991  only): 
     1992-14,370,000; 1991-10,848,000. 
        (Standard & Poor's News) 
     
  SC=     SIC Code: 5499 
  /DE, EN=     Event: Interim Earnings  (INE) 
     
  TS=     Ticker: SBUX         CUSIP: 855244        Company No: 00025967 
     
     
     


Text Record [top]

     
     
    DIALOG(R)File 132:S&P's Daily News 
    (c) 1997 McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. All rts. reserv. 
     
     1110672 
  /CO, CO=, PD=    STARBUCKS CORP.  920630 
     
  /TI     Initial Public Offering of Common; NASDAQ Symbol- 
     
     
  /TX     June  26,  1992,  underwriters  led by Alex. Brown & Sons Inc., 
     Baltimore,  and  Wertheim  Schroder  & Co. Inc. offered 2,100,000 
     Com.  shares  for  initial public sale at $17 per share. Of those 
     shares,  1,500,000  were  offered for Co. and 600,000 for certain 
     stockholders.  On  that  date,  Co.'s  Com.  became available for 
     trading  on  the  NASDAQ  system  under  the  symbol SBUX. Co., a 
     specialty  coffee  retailer,  operates  140 stores and also has a 
     wholesale  division  serving  restaurants  and institutions and a 
     national direct mail business. 
        (Standard & Poor's News) 
     
  /DE, EN=     Event: New Offerings  (OFF) 
              Trading Data  (STD) 
     
  TS=     Ticker: SBUX        Company No: 00025967 


BASIC INDEX [top]

SEARCH
SUFFIX		 DISPLAY
CODE		 FIELD NAME
 INDEXING
 SELECT EXAMPLES
None None All Basic Index Fields Word S COFFEE(S)RETAIL?
/CO CO Company Name1 Word S STARBUCKS/CO
/DE EN Event Name2 Word
& Phrase		 S NEW(W)OFFERINGS/DE
S ANNUAL EARNINGS/DE
/TI TI Title Word S INITIAL(W)PUBLIC(W)OFFER?/TI
/TX TX Text Word S DIRECT(W)MAIL/TX

1 Searchable in the Basic Index and in the Additional Indexes.

2 Also searchable using EN=.


ADDITIONAL INDEXES [top]

SEARCH
PREFIX		 DISPLAY
CODE		 FIELD NAME
 INDEXING
 SELECT EXAMPLES
None AN DIALOG Accession Number
CO= CO Company Name1 Phrase S CO=STARBUCKS?
CU= CU CUSIP Number5 Phrase S CU=M18955
EC= EC Event Code Phrase S EC=OFF
EN= EN Event Name1,3 Phrase S EN=NEW OFFERINGS
NO= NO Company Number5 Phrase S NO=00009379
PD= PD Publication Date Phrase S PD=19930304
PY= PY Publication Year Phrase S PY=1992
SC= SC Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Code4 Phrase S SC=5499
SF= None Special Feature Phrase S SF=TABLE
TS= TS Ticker Symbol Phrase S TS=SBUX
UD= None Update Phrase S UD=930301:9999

3 Also searchable using /DE.

4 For records added prior to May 1988, use 1972 SIC codes.

5 Not present in all records.


LIMIT [top]

Sets and terms can be limited by Basic Index suffixes, i.e., /CO, /DE, /TI, and /TX (e.g., S S5/DE) and by Publication Year (e.g., S S3/1993).


SORT [top]

SORTABLE FIELDS EXAMPLES
CO, PD, PY, SC, TS SORT S3/ALL/CO
PRINT S3/7/ALL/CO/PY,D


RANK [top]

RANK FIELDS EXAMPLES
All phrase- and numeric-indexed fields in the Additional Indexes can be ranked. Other RANK codes include: CU, NO, TS RANK AU S3


MAP [top]

 
MAP FIELDS EXAMPLES
TS


USER-DEFINED FORMAT OPTIONS [top]

User-defined formats can be specified using the display formats indicated in the Search Options tables. TYPE S4/CO,EN/1-5


PREDEFINED FORMAT OPTIONS [top]

NO.
 DIALOGWEB
FORMAT		 RECORD CONTENT
1 -- DIALOG Accession Number
2 -- Full Record except Text (Company Name, Title, Publication Date, and Indexing)
3 Medium Company Name, Title, and Publication Date
5 -- Full Record
6 Free Company Name and Publication Date
7 Long Full Record except Indexing
8 Short Full Record except Text (Company Name, Title, Publication Date, and Indexing)
9 Full Full Record
K -- KWIC (Key Word In Context) displays a window of text; may be used alone or with other formats


DIRECT RECORD ACCESS [top]

FIELD NAME EXAMPLES
DIALOG Accession Number TYPE 1597081/9
DISPLAY 1597070/CO,EN
PRINT 1597022/5


Rates [top]

Rates For File: Standard & Poor's Daily News[132]
Cost per DialUnit:                 $4.65
Cost per minute:                   $1.42
Rank Elements                      $0.00
ALERT (default)                   $12.57
ALERT (Monthly)                *  $22.47
ALERT (Biweekly/twice a month) *  $17.12
ALERT (Weekly)                    $12.57
ALERT (Daily)                  *   $3.75
ALERT (Calendar weekly)        *  $12.57
ALERT (Intraday)               *   $3.75
* = custom scheduled Alerts only
ALERT Number of included prints       20

Format    Types   Prints
     1    $0.00    $0.00
     2    $1.39    $1.39
     3    $1.39    $1.39
     5    $2.94    $2.94
     6    $0.00    $0.00
     7    $1.39    $1.39
     8    $1.39    $1.39
     9    $3.79    $3.79
KWIC95    $0.00       NA

REDIST/COPY Multiplier Table:

      Range      Multiplier
        1-2       1.00
       3-25       1.50
     26-100       3.00
    101-200       4.00
    201-500       6.00
   501-1000       8.00
 1001 or more    10.00
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