Due to the current COVID situation, Bloomberg is now available online. This is a temporary measure in light of the current situation and replaces the physical PC terminals that were available previously in the Library and Moore Annexe. The College has 16 licences, so only 16 users can access Bloomberg at one time.
There are two ways to do this:
To access Bloomberg:
Students and staff need to have a Bloomberg terminal login. If you don’t, the PDF document below this text box details how to create one via the Bloomberg market concepts (BMC) training website https://portal.bloombergforeducation.com/
Main Menus & Security Specific Functions
When you want to go back to the 'home' screen (start over) type: HOME. This is the page that appeared when you logged in.
If you type MENU, this takes you back to the main menu of your current search.
Security Specific example
To go to Microsoft's Historical Line Chart (stock prices), you could type:
MSFT US <Equity> <GO> You would see a menu, from there select item 17, for Historical Line Chart, with the mnenomic 'GP' OR type: MSFT US <Equity> GP <GO> This by-passed 2 additional steps: 4 <GO> 1 <GO>
MSFT US <Equity> GP W <GO> This by-passed 2 additional steps & set graph to weekly using W for Weekly
Type the company name at the cursor prompt and select the company from the list of suggested companies that appears below the name you typed
OR
If you do not see your company name in the list of suggested companies, hit the <HELP> key and then click onCompanies or Equities
Enter:
For Exchange Rates by region enter:
<CRNCY> TKC <GO>
For World Currency Rates enter:
Ticker Symbol <EQUITY> HP <GO> for Historical Prices
Enter: WB <GO> for a listing of benchmark government bonds around the world
On the Library Moodle page, there are helpful videos to guide you through using Bloomberg and accessing th vast array of information it has! It also has activities for you to help you use Bloomberg yourself and develop these very desirable skills that many employers look out for.
Bloomberg hosts webinars for students at the end of every month, on the last Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday. Sign up using the links below:
Tue Equity 3pm and FX 4pm
Wed FI 3pm and Commodities 4pm
Thursday PORT 3pm
The links for each webinar are below:
FI http://tinyurl.com/yakz7vyo
Equity http://tinyurl.com/y7fmcuur
Commodities http://tinyurl.com/ydb43nyo
PORT http://tinyurl.com/ydx9m9sz
FX http://tinyurl.com/y9aus6cg