FINANCE AND INVESTMENT RESOURCES

DATABASES

Bloomberg Terminal

Bloomberg is a dedicated computer terminal for accessing financial data electronically. It seamlessly integrates real-time and historical information on about 5 million bonds, equities, commodities, currencies and funds. It also comprises data on almost every publicly traded company and biographies of more than 1 million people.

Mergent BondViewer  
Mergent BondViewer provides access to any one of the following combinations Corporate Bonds; Retail Notes; Corporate Bonds And Municipal Bonds; Retail Notes And Municipal Bonds; Municipal Bonds.
 
Mergent Corporate Bond Portraits
Search for a company, then select from the tabs on top "Portraits", then select from the second tab line "Corporate Bond Portraits"

Mergent Equity Portraits
Search for a company, then select from the tabs on top "Portraits", then select "Equity Portraits"

Mergent EventsData--U.S. Corporate Dividends
Provides ten years of information on over 64,000 dividend-paying stocks and mutual funds, as well as ADRs, GDR's, and their underlying foreign shares. Features include indicated annual dividend calculations, dividend distributions and capital gains as well as capital changes such as splits, stock dividends, rights and spin-offs. Payments classifications include taxable, approximate, extra, and many others.

Mergent Horizon
Mergent Horizon provides information on 6,200 companies in total, with enhanced product-level detail for 3,700 companies in the Healthcare, Technology, Media and Finance sectors. You can Identify companies by entering a product or trade name. You can Highlight the relationships between a company's major customers, suppliers and partners. You can also Analyze data for sector aggregates or averages, as well as for individual companies. You can also Screen companies with hundreds of quantitative and qualitative fields and custom formulas. You can produce reports including Company Profiles, Competitors by Product, and Drug/Medical Device.

Mergent Online (U.S. and International Company Data)
Comprehensive company & investment information system. Covers company financials, executive officer search, SEC filings, company news, company annual reports, competitor information, equity and corporate bond portraits, tear sheets, and industry reports.

Mergent's Handbook of Common Stocks (Langsam Library--Latest in Reference (Print) -- link to Library Catalog)
Quick and easy access to key financial statistics on approximately 900 New York Stock Exchange-listed issues. Updated quarterly, presents market data, performance ratios, stock prices, and dividend information of recent quarterly results as well as future prospects in succinct one-page profiles. Filled with the latest available facts and figures.

Morningstar Online
Performance statistics, written fund analyses, and analytical tools of over 2,000 funds. Graphing of funds over a period of time is fairly easy. Searching the entire database for funds that meet your specifications is also possible. The standard Morningstar analytical tools, star ratings, investment style-box coordinates, and potential capital gain exposure are part of the service.

Standard and Poor's Bond Reports
Standard & Poor's Corporate Bond Reports include pricing and yield data, the current Standard & Poor's credit rating for the issuer and issue, the Standard & Poor's credit ratings history, Credit Watch activity, issuer and issue profiles, issuer financial highlights, issue redemption provisions, bond offering and coupon payment data and more. Reports are available on approximately 7,500 corporate bonds and are updated on a daily basis.

Standard and Poor's Corporation Records
Profiles of public companies including: company background, stock and bond descriptions, balance sheet and earnings information, officers/directors, capital expenditures, and subsidiaries.

Standard and Poor's Credit Week Focus
Offers a comprehensive view of the global credit markets, providing credit rating news and analysis. This feature is updated weekly.

Standard and Poor's Industry Surveys
The S&P Industry Surveys, present individual reports on approximately 60 industries. the reports include data and analysis current environment, industry trends, how the industry operates, key industry ratios and statistics, and comparative company analysis within the industry.

Standard and Poor's Outlook
S&P Outlook Is a weekly investment advisory service that presents stock market analysis and specific buy/hold/sell recommendations on more than 1000 stocks and offers research on industries and the economy.

Standard and Poor's Stock Reports
Covers 4,000 publicly traded companies listed on the New York, American, NASDAQ and regional stock exchanges. Stock Reports include S&P 's price-volume chart, statistical measures, and fundamental analytics. Analysts consensus estimates and projections, industry outlook, and the latest news on the company are also included in the reports.

Thomson One Banker
Thomson One Banker is a financial database that covers US and International Companies and provides profiles, current and historical data including, financials (reports and charts), SEC filings (with search capabilities), stock prices, estimates, ownerships, wall street research, deals, company and peer ratios.

Value Line Convertibles
ranks over 600 convertibles for potential risk and return, showing you which convertibles make the best buys, and which ones should probably be sold. Approximately 80 warrants are also followed and evaluated. Although convertibles are relatively low in risk, warrants, which are like options, are very risky; they offer greater profits, but their values can swing sharply.

Value Line Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs)
This service has an ETF Expected Relative Return Rating System. Starting with the list of stocks in each ETF, the raw score forecast for each stock's expected relative performance is weighted by that stock's market capitalization and then summed to arrive at a capitalization weighted average forecast for the ETF as a whole. These forecasts are scaled to numbers ranging from a possible +50 (Highest Expected Relative Return) to -50(Lowest). A rating of 0 (zero) corresponds to an expected return comparable to the markets.

Value Line Investment Survey
Published weekly, it tracks approximately 1,700 stocks in over 90 industries. Its Timeliness Ranking System ranks stocks on a scale of 1 to 5 for probable market performance over the next 6 to 12 months.

Value Line Investment Survey Archive--(Expanded Edition) (Langsam Library--CD-ROM) -- link to Library Catalog)

Value Line Investment Survey- Small and Mid-Cap Edition
The Small & Mid-cap Survey reports on approximately 1,800 small & mid-cap stocks not included in The Value Line Investment Survey. Applying the same discipline and rigor that we are known for, we rank these mostly small-capitalization stocks for Performance, Technical Merit, and Safety.

Value Line Mutual Fund Survey
Contains current Value Line rankings and performance figures on more than 2,000 funds, as well as articles on mutual funds, financial planning, and investment strategies. Each of the first seven Ratings & Reports issues contain over 98 full-page reports on individual equity mutual funds, including Value Line's proprietary Overall and Risk Ranks, performance graphs, total-return and portfolio statistics, and analyst commentary. Also included in each of the first seven issues is abbreviated coverage of over 100 equity funds. The eighth issue contains abbreviated coverage of 500 fixed-income mutual funds. Plus, once a year subscribers receive a Supplement covering 100 of the largest mutual fund families.

Value Line Options  Survey
Interactive Daily Analysis and Rankings of more than 130,000 Stock and Stock Index Options - Now with Bid and Ask Prices and Evaluations Plus a new Online Options Screener.

Value Line Special Situations Service
Special Situations Service has been seeking out small, fast-growing companies possessing unusual long-term capital gains potential. Value Line's team of special situation analysts maintain a constant search for the very best of these "emerging growth companies

DATA SOURCES & HISTORICAL SERIES

Bloomberg Terminal

Bloomberg is a dedicated computer terminal for accessing financial data electronically. It seamlessly integrates real-time and historical information on about 5 million bonds, equities, commodities, currencies and funds. It also comprises data on almost every publicly traded company and biographies of more than 1 million people.

Compustat on (WRDS)
Compustat Is a database of U.S. and Canadian fundamental and market information on more than 24,000 active and inactive publicly held companies. It provides more than 300 annual and 100 quarterly Income Statement, Balance Sheet, Statement of Cash Flows, and supplemental data items.

CRSP (Center for Research in Security Prices)
Historical database offers US daily corporate actions, price, volume, return, and shares outstanding data for securities with primary listings on the NYSE, NASDAQ, AMEX, and ARCA exchanges. UC also gets the Indices data.

Daily Stock Price Records. New York Stock Exchange. 1972-   (Langsam Library Latest Reference (Print) -- link to Library Catalog)
Alphabetical listing of NYSE companies giving daily high, low, close and volume for each quarter along with dividend and stock split information.

Daily Stock Price Records. American Stock Exchange. 1972-   (Langsam Library Latest Reference (Print) -- link to Library Catalog)
Alphabetical listing of ASE companies giving daily high, low, close and volume for each quarter along with dividend and stock split information.

Daily Stock Price Record. NASDAQ. 1993- (Langsam Library Latest Reference (Print) --  link to Library Catalog)

Alphabetical listing of NASDAQ companies giving daily high, low, close and volume for each quarter along with dividend and stock split information.

Daily Stock Price Record. Over the Counter. 1968-1992. (Langsam Library Latest Reference (Print) -- link to Library Catalog)

Alphabetical listing of OTC companies giving daily high, low, close and volume for each quarter along with dividend and stock split information.

Dow Jones Averages 1885 -1995 (Langsam Library Reference (Print) -- link to Library Catalog)

Dow Jones Indexes
Free and for pay data from Dow Jones

Factiva
Stock market data is provided by Factiva in the Companies/Markets section of the web page. Click on Companies/Markets, then choose stocks, Funds or Currencies. You can also get daily data on many international stock market indices for the past two years.

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) database
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) database contains financial data and history of all entities filing the Report Of Condition and Income (Call Report) and some savings institutions filing the OTS Thrift Financial Report (TFR). These entities include Commercial banks, savings banks, or savings and loans. FDIC files include structure data, financial time series data, complex derived integers data, ratio data, and merger history data. .

Global Stock Markets Factbook (Langsam Library Latest Reference (Print) -- link to Library Catalog)
The factbook provides details of the performance and characteristics of 100 world stock markets for the last 10 years. Data covered includes: Number of listed companies, market capitalization, trading volume, local index, S&P indices and economic data.

Global Insight (On theWeb).
Global Insight covers: Market Indices; Commodities/Futures;  Derivatives; Equities;  Money markets;  Exchange rates;  Fixed income. It also covers stock markets in over 90 equity exchanges and 80+ countries
To access the data, on the left, click on "DataInsight Web", then click on "Financial Markets", then expand the "Concept" section, then expand "Index", etc...

I.B.E.S.
The IBES database provided by Thomson Financial contains comprehensive global information on analyst estimates of earnings per share including both individual forecasts and consensus data. Analyst recommendations are available as well. In addition to earnings estimates data is available on a more limited basis for estimates of revenue, cash flow, FFO, EBITDA, target prices, long-term growth and more.

Mergent Bond Record.  (Latest Langsam Library Reference (Print) -- link to Library Catalog)

Mergent Corporate Bond Portraits
Each Corporate Bond Portrait contains: complete terms and conditions for the bond, detailed annual and quarterly financial of the issuer. Detailed industry and peer group analysis. Complete credit ratings with six-year history. MERGENT's proprietary rating. Short business description. Insider buys/sales and institutional holdings. Peer group debt sales summary. Unique Features of Corporate Bond Portraits include: MERGENT's coverage of over 10,000 U.S. firms and 40,000 bonds. Both issue-specific indicative data and issuer-specific financial analysis in one report. Thorough analysis of each firm relative to firms with similar ratings, as well as to its industry group. Time series analysis of each firm's key accounting ratios to highlight trends in the firm's credit performance. Multiple perspectives on a bond's valuation and prospects.

Mergent Equity Portraits
MERGENT Equity Portraits combines MERGENT's database of fundamental company information with stock price, volume and other data to paint a detailed picture of over 10,000 U.S. firms. Each Equity Portrait Contains: historical stock price and volume data; detailed annual and quarterly financial data; detailed industry and segment analysis; text discussion of the firm's recent results and its future prospects; short business description; review of firm's investment potential; insider buys/sales and institutional holdings and Real-time news stories. Unique Features of Equity Portraits include: MERGENT's data with coverage of over 10,000 U.S. firms; analysis of a firm's prospects. A firm's outlook may be "weak", "relatively weak", "stable", "relatively improving" or "improving"; textual descriptions of recent results; textual descriptions of forecast information; in-depth analysis available in Industry Overview, Rankings and Watch Signal sections; multiple perspective on a firm's valuation and prospects.

Mergent EventsData--U.S. Corporate Dividends
Provides ten years of information on over 64,000 dividend-paying stocks and mutual funds, as well as ADRs, GDR's, and their underlying foreign shares. Features include indicated annual dividend calculations, dividend distributions and capital gains as well as capital changes such as splits, stock dividends, rights and spin-offs. Payments classifications include taxable, approximate, extra, and many others.

Mutual Fund Connection (Investment Company Institute)
Wide range of statistics on the mutual funds market.

New York Stock Exchange Statistics Archive

Standard And Poor's Analysts Handbook  (Langsam Library Latest Reference (Print) -- link to Library Catalog)
Standard & Poor’s Analysts’ Handbook presents a set of analytical tools based on the S&P Stock Price Indices from 1992 forward. The index level data includes the S&P 500, S&P 500 Industrial Composite and GICS® based data including: Sectors, Industry Groups, Industries and Sub-Industries.

Standard and Poor's Outlook
S&P Outlook Is a weekly investment advisory service that presents stock market analysis and specific buy/hold/sell recommendations on more than 1000 stocks and offers research on industries and the economy.

Standard and Poor's Statistical Service  (Langsam Library Latest Reference (Print) -- link to Library Catalog)
Contains current and historical time series on money, commodities, stock indexes, and industry indexes.

Stocks, Bonds, Bills and Inflation. (Langsam Library Latest Reference (Print) -- link to Library Catalog)
The yearbook contains total returns and index values dating back to 1926 for large and small company stocks, long-term corporate bonds, long- and intermediate-term government bonds, Treasury bills, and inflation.

TAQ (Trade and Quote Database)
The Trade and Quote (TAQ) database contains intraday transactions data (trades and quotes) for all securities listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and American Stock Exchange (ANEX), as well as Nasdaq National Market System (NMS) and SmallCap issues.

Thomson Financial (Institutional Ownership - 13f) 
CDA/Spectrum Institutional (13f) Common Stock Holdings and Transactions from 1980 - present.

Value Line Historical Stock Reports (1997-
Investment Survey stock reports going back to 1997.

Wall Street Journal Index  (Langsam Library Latest Reference (Print) --  link to Library Catalog)
1958- in Langsam Ref;  1984- Present on Factiva.

World Stock Exchange Fact Book. (Langsam Library Latest Reference (Print) --  link to Library Catalog)
A two-volume reference source containing over 25 years of data, performance measures, and relevant information from more than 45 stock markets worldwide.

Yahoo Finance  Historical Quotes
Daily, weekly, and monthly historical quotes going back to 1970. No limit on the items in a historical series. However only 200 items display at one time. Historical dividends are also available. 

DICTIONARIES & ENCYCLOPEDIAS

Encyclopedia of Investments  (Langsam Library Latest Reference (Print) --  link to Library Catalog)

Investopedia
2500 Investment terms and also articles on "how to invest". 

Investorwords 
Over 5,000 definitions and 15,000 links between related terms.

McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Wall Street Acronym s... (Langsam Library Latest Reference (Print) -- link to Library Catalog)

Wall Street Words
Also in: (Langsam Library Latest Reference (Print) -- link to Library Catalog)

Webster's New World Finance and Investment Dictionary. (On CREDO Reference)
You can search or look up your term alphabetically in this online dictionary. From fixed income to financial futures, from bankruptcy and restructuring to venture capital, Webster’s New World Finance and Investment Dictionary gives you quick-access to definitions.

DIRECTORIES

The Handbook of World Stock, Derivatives & Commodity Exchanges  (Langsam Library Reference (Print) -- link to Library Catalog)
Provides trading, settlement and organizational information about 250 exchanges in over 100 countries and regions.

Nelson Information's Directory of Investment Managers. (Langsam Library Latest Reference (Print) -- link to Library Catalog)
1,700 firms and over 7,000 products with assets totaling over $23 trillion. The directory includes nine indexes with page references to the individual profiles and allows the reader to find firms based on metropolitan area or country of domicile, investment specialties, and investment products offered. Minority and women-owned firms and wrap account managers have their own indexes for easy look-up.

Nelson's Research Firm Profiles (On LexisNexis Academic--Click on "Business" then "Company Profiles" then select "Nelson's.." and make sure you de-select "U.S. Company Reports".
Research Firm Profiles comprise descriptions of investment banks, brokerage firms and independent research firms worldwide. Information includes: contact information, key executives and analysts (research, sales and trading --both equity and fixed income) as well as research service offered.

SIFMA: Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association yearbook. (Langsam Library Latest Reference (Print) -- link to Library Catalog)
Includes detailed information on individual securities firms, such as key personnel and department heads, number of customer accounts, registered representatives, offices, and capital. Also provides rankings by capital, offices, employees and RRs. Additional sections present industry facts and comprehensive industry and market statistics.

DIVIDENDS

Mergent Dividend Achievers.
Published four times a year, Mergent's Dividend Achievers features the latest data on a unique universe of companies with a history of regularly rewarding shareholders.

Mergent EventsData--U.S. Corporate Dividends
Provides ten years of information on over 64,000 dividend-paying stocks and mutual funds, as well as ADRs, GDR's, and their underlying foreign shares. Features include indicated annual dividend calculations, dividend distributions and capital gains as well as capital changes such as splits, stock dividends, rights and spin-offs. Payments classifications include taxable, approximate, extra, and many others.

Mergent Dividend Record. Annual Cumulative Issue. (Langsam Library Latest Reference (Print) --  link to Library Catalog)
A comprehensive year-end review of dividends. Cumulates Mergent's Dividend Record.

INVESTMENT CALCULATORS

Investment Calculators

IPO'S

Factiva
To find current announcements, in the search box, type: ns=C1711 and click search. You can if you wish limit this search to a date or a date range.

IPO Central
This is Hoover's IPO Central which includes IPO filing information, expected trading deadlines, and market performance information. Users can search based upon an IPO filing or trading date through "Build A List" under, Financial Data and US IPO data.

IPO's on Edgar Online
Includes recent filings, upcoming and latest filings, news, and historic performance

ZEPHYR 
Zephyr covers various deals including : M&A activity, IPOs, joint ventures and private equity deals. There is no minimum deal value so you can analyze all deals in detail, irrespective of the transaction size.

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS

UC's access to M&A sources are listed on the following page: Mergers and Acquisitions

MUTUAL FUNDS

DATABASES

Morningstar Online
Performance statistics, written fund analyses, and analytical tools of over 2,000 funds. Graphing of funds over a period of time is fairly easy. Searching the entire database for funds that meet your specifications is also possible. The standard Morningstar analytical tools, star ratings, investment style-box coordinates, and potential capital gain exposure are part of the service.

Mutual Funds on S&P Net Advantage
Reports on over 14,000 Mutual Funds - featuring Standard & Poor's proprietary STARS ranking system - are available on the Mutual Funds Home Page. You can use the Simple Search tool to retrieve a report on a specific fund or you can use the fund screener to identify a group of funds that match a common set of performance or descriptive criteria.

Value Line Mutual Fund Survey
Contains current Value Line rankings and performance figures on more than 2,000 funds, as well as articles on mutual funds, financial planning, and investment strategies. Each of the first seven Ratings & Reports issues contain over 98 full-page reports on individual equity mutual funds, including Value Line's proprietary Overall and Risk Ranks, performance graphs, total-return and portfolio statistics, and analyst commentary. Also included in each of the first seven issues is abbreviated coverage of over 100 equity funds. The eighth issue contains abbreviated coverage of 500 fixed-income mutual funds. Plus, once a year subscribers receive a Supplement covering 100 of the largest mutual fund families.

STATISTICS

Investment Company Institute. Mutual Fund Statistics
Institute staff collect a wide range of statistics on U.S.-registered mutual funds. The Institute also collects data on U.S.-based closed-end funds, exchange-traded funds, and unit investment trusts, as well as foreign open-end investment companies in conjunction with investment company industry associations around the world.

OBSOLETE SECURITIES

UC sources on obsolete resources are listed on this page: Bankruptcy

OPTIONS

Futures Magazine Online Source Book
Over 7000 listing of exchanges, commodity trading advisors, introducing brokers, futures commission merchants, commodity pool operators, trading system software, etc...

Value Line Options Survey
Gives daily evaluations and ranks of 80,000 listed stock on about 2,000 underlying stocks. Also included is The Option Strategist, an online publication offering advice about investing with options.

Yahoo Finance
Quotes and historical data for options.

SECURITIES LAW AND REGULATION

CCH Internet Research Library (Securities Banking and Trade Regulation
The CCH Internet Research Library includes the following components: Securities: Federal Securities Law Reports; Blue Sky Law Reports; Securities Library. Federal Banking Law: Secured Transactions Guide; Consumer Credit Guide; Federal Banking Law Library. Capital Changes. Trade Law (Including Trade Regulations Reporter with trade cases, FTC complaints, etc.). Government Contracts Reports; FAR Archives; Government Contracts Library.

STOCK PRICES

CURRENT QUOTATION SERVICES

Bigcharts
CNNfn  
Factiva
PCQuote
QuoteCom  
Yahoo Finance

DAILY PRICE RANGE AND CLOSING

FOR THE PREVIOUS DAY
Factiva
Yahoo Finance Historical Quotes

FOR PREVIOUS WEEK
Factiva
Yahoo Finance Historical Quotes

FOR PREVIOUS QUARTER(S)
Daily Stock Price Record (S&P)
Factiva

FOR THE PREVIOUS YEAR
Daily Stock Price Record (S&P)
Factiva

FOR SEVERAL YEARS
Daily Stock Price Record (S&P)
CRSP (WRDS)
Factiva

WEEKLY PRICES (HIGH, LOW, LAST)

FOR PREVIOUS WEEK
Barron's
Factiva
Yahoo Finance Historical Quotes

FOR PREVIOUS QUARTER
Daily Stock Price Record (S & P)
Factiva

FOR PREVIOUS YEAR
Factiva

MONTHLY PRICES

FOR PREVIOUS MONTH
Compustat (WRDS)
Factiva
S & P Security Owners Stock Guide - (High, low, last)
Yahoo Finance Historical Quotes

FOR THE PREVIOUS YEAR
Factiva

FOR SEVERAL YEARS
Compustat (WRDS)
CRSP (WRDS)
Factiva 

QUARTERLY PRICES

FOR PREVIOUS YEAR
Factiva

FOR SEVERAL YEARS
Compustat (WRDS)

ANNUAL PRICE RANGE

CURRENT YEAR
Barron's
New York Times
S & P Bond Guide
S&P Stock Reports

MORE THAN ONE YEAR
Compustat (WRDS)
Moody's Handbook of Common Stock
S&P Stock Reports
Value Line Investment Survey

STOCK REPORTS

Or "TearSheets"

INVESTEXT (Wall Street Research Reports" 
Full-text company research reports for U.S. and international companies.  The reports are prepared by leading investment banks, brokerage houses, and research firms. 

Lexis/Nexis

On the left side click on "Company Profiles", then type the name of the company, then go down to the "Sources Box", uncheck "U.S. Company Reports" , then check "Stock Reports, Combined"  and click on "Search".

Mergent TearSheets

Search for a company, then select from the tabs on top "TearSheets".

Mergent Equity Portraits
Search for a company, then select from the tabs on top "Portraits", then select "Equity Portraits".

Standard and Poor's Stock Reports
In the top right area, under "Publication Search", change the publication to "Stock Reports", then type the name of the company or the ticker symbol.

Thomson One Banker

Type the ticker symbol, and click on "Go", then on the left side click on "Thomson Overview" and choose "Corporate Snapshot".

Value Line Investment Survey

On the left side, click on "Standard Edition", then click on "Survey Issues" for the latest issues, or you could search by company name.

STOCK SPLITS

CCH Capital Changes
Covers federal tax consequences of capital changes for more than 58,000 corporations and organizations resulting from stock dividends, stock splits, reorganizations, exchanges, rights and other changes in capital structure in a database that spans over 100 years.

Mergent EventsData--U.S. Corporate Dividends
Provides ten years of information on over 64,000 dividend-paying stocks and mutual funds, as well as ADRs, GDR's, and their underlying foreign shares. Features include indicated annual dividend calculations, dividend distributions and capital gains as well as capital changes such as splits, stock dividends, rights and spin-offs. Payments classifications include taxable, approximate, extra, and many others.

WALL STREET RESEARCH

INVESTEXT (Wall Street Research Reports of companies and industries) 
Full-text company research reports for U.S. and international companies.  The reports are prepared by leading investment banks, brokerage houses, and research firms.  Full-text industry reports, for over 50 industries are also included in this database.

Business & Company Resource Center
Investment reports from 72 providers are available . To access these reports, search for a company, then click on the tab "Investment Reports"

WEB GUIDES

Company Insight Center
Financial Data Finder: Downloadable Data
MaxFunds. Mutual fund information
InvestorGuide
Investor Home
Investor Links
Quote.com
Reuters
Wachowicz's Web World

Comments: Wahib Nasrallah, Business and Economics Librarian

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