Investigate the value of your ideas. With Datastream’s vast reserves of historical financial content, you can research the correlations and relationships between global economic indicators and asset classes. The power of Datastream is available in the way that works best for you: as a powerful desktop application or a Datafeed for integration into your own systems.

Analyze and map historical trends and relationships using the most comprehensive time-series database

With Datastream, you can:

  • Make smarter decisions by staying on top of market events, testing investment and trading ideas and building a compelling investment strategy
  • Uncover trends using the rich historical data
  • Explore relationships between data series with a powerful, customizable charting application

Why choose Datastream?

  • Breadth and depth: Datastream is the world's largest and most respected financial statistics database.
  • Integration with Microsoft Office: Data and charts can be linked in Excel, PowerPoint, or Word
  • Sophisticated charting: Our charting makes it easy to manipulate Datastream's vast database of over 140 million time series.
  • Superior navigation: Datastream Navigator helps you select the most relevant series from the millions available, with criteria screens for each data category and tailored searchable fields.
  • One single, integrated desktop solution: Datastream can be integrated with other Thomson Reuters solutions.

Powerful analysis tools

  • Series and Field Selection -  Datastream Navigator helps you select the most relevant series from the millions available on the Datastream databases.
  • Charting - Making it easier to explore trends and relationships between series, this feature enables you to identify the lag or leads to use for the best correlations between series, so research ideas can be quickly evaluated.
  • Datastream Add-in - Build complex models and reports without using the desktop interface. Data and charts can be linked in Microsoft Excel®, PowerPoint®, or Word® to enable you to create spreadsheets, presentations, and documents which can be updated at the click of a button.

Common utilities for Datastream

  • Expressions - Create and edit your expressions from within the Datastream desktop or through the Datastream add-ins.
  • Lists -  Create lists to represent series in portfolios, watchlists, or sets of frequently used economic indicators.
  • User-Created Indices - A long-time favorite, the user-created index functionality allows you to create your own list of constituent equities from the full breadth of Datastream's equity universe, define a start date and a currency, and let the system calculate your index. Indices can be set up on an ad hoc basis or maintained automatically, with new values calculated daily.
  • User-Created Time Series - Upload your own data series to use in combination with Datastream-maintained series in charts, or for use with Datastream expression facilities.
  • Equity Searching - Use Datastream screening to search across the entire global equities database. Up to ten fields such as market value and geographic region can be used to locate and evaluate outstanding performers.

The Datastream desktop

  • Series Overviews, standard charts and tabular reports -   Easily display series background and summary performance information. View performance charts and key statistics for any of more than 3.5 million instruments and indicators on Datastream.
  • Flexible Charting - Plot any financial instrument or indicator of any periodicity or currency against any other.
  • Projects - Save your charts and reports in Projects to organize your work and automate tasks without learning a scripting language.
  • The Datastream desktop runs on Microsoft Windows® 2000 and XP® platforms and with Office® 2000, XP and 2003.
  • The Datastream desktop communicates with the Datastream central systems using a range of communications facilities, including Datastream's network gateway, wide-area networks and the internet.