Business Data Staff

Looking at the market share of Bloomberg versus LSEG/Refinitiv and discussing accounting and finance dissertation support — This week we discussed an article in the Guardian which covered Bloomberg and LSE Group/Refinitiv. We discussed the relationships between these companies, how they compete for an audience of financial analysts, how they are influenced or impeded by their legacy infrastructures and what they may offer in the future.

Discussing CUSIP codes, practising opening and transforming financial CSV files in Excel and SPSS — Today we worked through our new CUSIP code blog post: CUSIP codes: how to avoid common problems when opening CSV files Problems that can occur with CUSIP codes and how to prevent them in Excel and SPSS when importing CSV filesmleblog.medium.com What is a CUSIP code and where are they used? We explored the CUSIP code format, what the groups of digits mean, what the check sum digit means. …

Troubleshooting problems with Bloomberg portfolio analysis — We have covered a range of introductory Bloomberg functions including financial analysis, news and screening for equities. A common topic which the Library has not supported is portfolio management and analysis. We have started to recevie queries from students learning to use the PORT<GO> function in Bloomberg. …

Looking for analyst and research reports in Eikon and private company data in Orbis — Public company searches in Eikon Problem: A student requests a report which we don’t have access to, eg analyst reports, expensive market research research. We cannot use Order an Article service in these cases due to cost. We have Aftermarket Research (AMR) from Refinitiv which contains analyst reports. …

Study the performance of a UK and a US company in Fame, Orbis and Eikon — This week: look at Fame, Orbis and Eikon This session we looked at a database provider in their own company database and in a competitor’s to see how they have been performing in recent years, what evidence or events may explain our findings, and a little about their outlook. We searched for Bureau van Dijk in Fame (as…

Preparing to teach our Bloomberg open workshop — Today, we prepared to deliver a pilot session of our Bloomberg open workshop. We went through the online workbook, slides and lesson plan. “By the end of this workshop, you will be able to: Understand what Bloomberg is used for Retrieve company information using Bloomberg Access and find business and…

Discussing Datastream request types, begin looking at lists — Previous session Datastream time series request for equities and economics This session Discussion: what kinds of enquiries could we support at this stage? Person A and Person Z shared their experiences and thoughts about what would happen if they were to help on Datastream enquiries today. More confident to help people who already know what they are looking for or if they already know the…

Datastream time series request for equities and economics — Today we are connecting to Datastream and launching the Navigator to search for companies and macroeconomic time series data. Previous session, accessing or installing Datastream via Eikon Types of request Time Series, for items with a regular period. Static, for items which seldom change. You cannot mix static datatypes in a time series…

First look at Refinitiv Datastream via Eikon, how to access — Today we will go from the very beginning with Datastream for Person A and Person Z. They have both taught some Datastream several years ago but not used it much (or at all) since. Previous content The following links are for reference only. I’m not expecting you to read through them now…