What's in afr.com?

A subscription to afr.com includes:

  • Access across the entire afr.com site
  • PLUS AFR Market Wrap
    Published after the close of the market each day, AFR Market Wrap provides you with an investment edge by giving you access to the most comprehensive daily market update from Australia's leading business and financial columnists. (see www.AFRmarketwrap.com for more information)
  • PLUS The Australian Financial Review Digital Edition
    The online version of the Financial Review as it appears in print, to view anytime, anywhere in the world. (more)
Listed below are the specific components and tools contained within the afr.com application.

News

Breaking news from our reporting team on investment, business and finance and politics, including online-only columns like Street Talk Online and Broker Watch.

All the articles published in the print editions of:

  • The Australian Financial Review
  • BRW
  • AFR Smart Investor
  • AFR Boss
  • AFR Magazine
  • Asset
  • CFO
  • MIS
  • The Sydney Morning Herald
  • The Age

Breaking news from our Australian and international wire services:

  • AAP
  • Reuters
  • The New York Times - Business stories from the print edition including DealBook and online updates throughout the day.

Company announcements from the Australian Securities Exchange (20 min delay)

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Archives

Access to deep Fairfax archives

  • 3 million articles
  • 29 years

Guides

  • Investment guides
  • Help guides - how to use afr.com

Market Data

Stock quotes

Real-time and delayed ASX quotes, including market depth (pay per view).

Code Exchange
SFE Sydney Futures Exchange
NZX New Zealand Stock Exchange
HKEx Honk Kong Stock Exchange
SGX Singapore Stock Exchange
TSX Toronto Stock Exchange
LSE London Stock Exchange
AMEX American Stock Exchange
NASDAQ National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations
NYSE New York Stock Exchange

 

Indices

A wide range of local & global exchange indices including NASDAQ, Dow Jones and many others from Asia, Europe and South America.

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Company information

  • Corporate overview
  • Operational history
  • Corporate history
  • Index participation
  • Issued capital
  • corporate calendar
  • Substantial shareholders
  • Directors’ interests
  • Dividend announcements
  • Aspect Huntley Rankings
  • Peer analysis

10 year financial statement history.

  • profit & loss
  • balance sheet
  • cashflow

10 year dividends and per-share performance data.

Earnings forecasts

  • Thomson Consensus Forecasts
  • Starmine Smart Estimates – Accuracy weighted analyst EPS forecasts

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Stock selector

  • Screen stocks on a wide range of fundamental filters.
  • Use Conscious Investing™ stock filter methodology or your own filters to shortlist potential investment opportunities.

Stock valuer

  • Estimate total shareholder return with Conscious Investing™ methodology and your own research

Fund selector

  • obtain a shortlist of funds using your specific fund investment criteria

Money and commodities

  • Bonds (US 10 yr, 2 yr, 3 mth Treasury; AUS 10 yr, 3 yr government bonds, AUS 90 day bank bill)
  • Foreign exchange (AUD/USD, AUD/EURO, AUD/YEN, AUD/Sterling, AUD/NZD) Access to additional values including USD/YEN, EURO/USD, NZD/USD
  • Commodities (Oil -Nymexand Brent, gold, silver, copper and more)

Economic statistics

  • Key economic statistics from the ABS and RBA-CPI, GDP, unemployment rate, retail sales, official cash rate

Industry snapshots

  • IBISWorld Industry snapshots – key figures, revenue growth
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Investment glossary

  • Comprehensive glossary with thousands of investment terms

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IPOs

  • Latest IPO information compiled by afr.com editors

Managed funds

  • Fund profile information for over 9,000 funds from Morningstar
  • Qualitative research (where available) across funds from Morningstar

Executive profiles

  • Profiles of Australian business people from Who’s Who

Residential property

  • Residential property listings from Domain
  • Postcode reports: reports on the exact sale prices for all properties sold in a postcode for the last 12 or 24 mths (from $50)
  • Individual property reports: complete sales price history for a particular property + comparable sales in the area (reports $50)

Commercial property

  • National commercial property listings from Domain Commercial
  • Past sales and leasing reports
  • Search sold/leased records from CPM Research (national). Pay-per-view records as required.
  • Recent research reports from Australian Property Review
  • Recent auction results: search for the latest auction results by state

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Tools

Power search

  • Search across the entire archive with over 10 parameters
  • Refine results: drill down using eight powerful filters

Custom alerts

  • Custom news alerts on company, subject, industry
  • Customised price alerts, market time alerts, market event alerts e.g. company announcements (pay per view)

Watchlists

  • Track multiple watchlists across equities, options, warrants, futures and interest rate securities

Portfolios

  • Track performance and profit/loss for your equity, assets and managed funds portfolios

Real-time stock quotes

  • Get live price quotes delivered to you via SMS, email or in afr.com (pay per view)

Charting

  • Price charts, open/high/low/close charts, candle charts, volume charts
  • Charts showing technical analysis including RSI, Bollinger bands, moving averages and many more

Trade

  • Buy and sell equities with your broker via afr.com. Note: only CommSec available at this stage

Calculators and unit converters

  • Standard calculator, loan calculator, length/area/volume/mass converter, postcode/suburb lookup

My Workspace

  • Save (drag) items into My Workspace so that you can refer to them at a later date (e.g. articles, stock quotes)

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RTC model

The US appears to be putting its houses - Fannie and Freddie - in order, writes Glenn Mumford.