What is Eikon and how can I use it?
Answer
Eikon is available on on-campus PCs or can be downloaded onto your own laptop/PC. On a Mac you can use Eikon Web.
To access Eikon on any device please contact librarians@le.ac.uk and ask for a password. You can have up to 4 hours' access per day.
Description
EIKON is well-regarded database extensively used both in academia and industry. EIKON includes global economic, company and financial data.
EIKON includes:
- Thomson ONE Banker equivalent data (deals, ownership, credit analysis, real-time research, company events and financials)
- World Scope full package
- Reuters fundamentals
- IBES
- Consensus Global Current
- Deal analytics (Global Merger and Acquisition, ECM, DCM transactions
- Intraday pricing
- ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) Data
- Datastream Excel add-in
- EIKON Excel add-in
Getting started with EIKON and Training
Online training videos are available to show how to use the various features with EIKON. To register use your University email address.
You can also use EIKON with Excel either by copying data in, or by importing it using the Excel add-in. Tutorials on this are available from the LSEG Learning Centre.
Subject Coverage
Global historical content on securities, companies, markets and economies.
Information source include Government Departments, Stock Markets, OECD, IMF, Worldscope and Eurostat.
How often updated
Intra-Daily
Date
Early 1960s to the present.
Supplier
LSEG (formerly Refinitiv and Thomson Reuters)
Language
English