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Bloomberg:

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bringing Wall Street to Georgetown

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Jennifer Boettcher updated 2025

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Jennifer C. Boettcher

boettcher@georgetown.edu

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/boettcher1

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Bluesky:@jwombat.bsky.social

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CV

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What is Bloomberg

A Wall Street tool that integrates news and data for over 129 countries and 250 stock exchanges. Offerings include securities pricing, news, data, and analysis on companies, equity/stock and debt markets, and economies.

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What is in Bloomberg

  • Articles
  • Historic data
    • Charts
    • Graphs
  • Multi-Media
  • Training Materials

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  • Publicly-traded Parent Companies
    • Descriptions
    • “financials”
    • Officers
    • Stock prices
    • Beta
    • Derivatives
      • SWAPS
      • Options

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  • Mergers
  • Industry
  • Economic data
  • Commodities
  • Debt
  • Finance Jobs

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  • International

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When Bloomberg is not the answer

  • User has no basic understanding of finance
  • Subsidiary or Private Company
    • Mergent, PrivCo, or Company Dossier
  • Company no longer traded
  • Scholarly Articles
  • Marketing Questions
    • Marketing Guide, especially reports

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When Bloomberg is not the answer

  • Needs to do large downloads (academic account is limited)
    • Stockprices > Yahoo Finance
    • Economic data > WDI Online
  • Articles (limited to Newswires and Bloomberg News)
    • Factiva, ABI/Inform, Business Source Complete
  • Analysis Reports
    • LSEG, S&P NetAdvantage, Morningstar

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Where’s Bloomberg?

  • Locations
    • Hariri Building (for MSB only)
    • Reference Desk in Lauinger Library

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  • Who can use Bloomberg
    • 1st priority to current MSB people
    • CURRENT GU students, staff, and faculty

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Bloomberg 101

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Getting started

  • Hit Red “Default” key several times to get to logon screen.

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Important keys

  • Navigation is bizarre compared with browsers.
  • “Back” does NOT get you to previous screen.
    • Back is really more page up
    • “MENU” usually gets you close.

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Basic approach

  • 1. Bloomberg ticker
  • 2. Asset Class F-Key
  • 3. Bloomberg Function
  • 4. GO!

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PEP US GIP

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To grab a screen shot

  • GRAB
  • Then email to yourself

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Jobs on Bloomberg….

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People on Bloomberg…

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More news…

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Refineries and hurricanes

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Getting started

  • To login to the Computer: use NetID (same as email) and password
  • Click on the Green Bloomberg Icon- It may take time connecting, in case of failure to connect it will automatically retry- please be patient
  • When Bloomberg opens, press <Enter/GO> for the log-in screen.
  • Click the icon to Create a New Login.
  • Enter your personal information.
    • User your Georgetown University email address.
    • Enter your cell phone number to receive a validation code via SMS or phone call.
  • Enter the validation code to confirm account creation.
  • Remember your login information. (recommend you take a picture of your screen to remember username)

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  • When DONE with session: Please CLOSE the software by moving the mouse to lower left to reveal the Bloomberg icon, then press the left button on your mouse, and select close.

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  • Then LOG OFF the computer by using the Start button in the lower left of the left screen

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Moving around

  • Command line, follow the blue rectangle
  • Green GO key, return/enter button
  • Sometimes things are clickable
  • No Back option, try hitting Menu button
  • Use the Page Down button to see other pages

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Ways to search

  • Start with the “Gold Keys,” function keys on top
  • Drilldown through menus
    • Three level deep
    • Any time you see a #) [i.e. 1) or 2)] goes deeper
  • Code
    • <ticker><gold key><code>
  • Automatic fill-in

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  • Last- last 8 functions

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Helpful Equity codes

  • TK- Ticker lookup
  • Des – description
  • GP- graph prices
  • HP- historical prices
  • Beta- beta
  • WACC- Working average cost of capital
  • RV- Relative value
  • EE- Earnings estimates
  • OMON- Option monitor
  • CN- Company news

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Code <Go>

  • BI- Industry
  • Jobs- Job posts
  • MA- Mergers & acquisitions
  • N- News
  • WEI- World equity index
  • EMMV- Emerging markets
  • People- user directory

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  • BU- training material
  • HBL-Help site
  • IB help- Chat 24/7
  • BCER- Bloomberg Certifed
    • BFF-B Fin Fundamentals
    • BMC- B Market Concepts
    • ESG- Envi, Soc, Governan
    • BSA- B Spreadsheet Anal

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Learning more - Great tutorials

  • guides.library.cornell.edu/bloomberg_intro
    • Cornell

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  • https://guides.library.columbia.edu/bloomberg
    • Columbia

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  • libguides.lib.msu.edu/bloomberg
    • Michigan State University

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What are some of your favorites?

Looking for experienced people who what to share some of their favorite commands or features.

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Other useful data sources at GU

  • LSEG Workspace
    • LSEG’s Workspace previous names were Datastream, Thomson One, Thomson Reuters, Eikon, and Refinitiv

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  • Mergent MarketAtlas

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  • Free stuff:
    • Yahoo! Finance
    • Google Finance
    • Many brokerage firms web sites

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More Economic and Finance Databases

https://guides.library.georgetown.edu/IFC-Milken