Research & Instruction's Keeping Up Series presents

Bloomberg:

bringing Wall Street to Lauinger

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Jennifer Boettcher updated 2023

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.

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

When Bloomberg is not the answer

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

When Bloomberg is not the answer

• Needs to download (academic account is limited)
• Stockprices > Yahoo Finance
• Economic data > WDI Online
• Articles (limited to Newswires and Bloomberg News)
• Factiva, ABI/Inform, CFA Digest
• Analysis Reports
• Investext, S&P NetAdvantage

Where’s Bloomberg?

• Locations
• Reference Desk in Lauinger Library
• Hariri Building (for MSB only)
• Who can use Bloomberg
• 1^st priority to current MSB people
• CURRENT GU students, staff, and faculty

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Ask a person’s status, before you tell anyone we have Bloomberg!

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

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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Three 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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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

Code <Go>

• IBQ- Industry
• Jobs- Job posts
• MA- Mergers & acquisitions
• N- News
• WEI- World equity index
• EMKT- Emerging markets
• Movies- Movies
• Press “e” to exit out of web

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• People- users directory
• BU- training material
• Last- last 8 funtions
• IB help- Chat 24/7
• HDSK- messages

Learning more - Great tutorials

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

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• libguides.babson.edu/bloomberg
• Babson

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