LIB310 USING DATASTREAM Lingnan University Library Feb 2013 TERENCE CHEUNG – REFERENCE LIBRARIAN

AFTER THE WORKSHOP, YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO KNOW: What kind of information is available in Datastream. How to retrieve relevant information from Datastream. How to retrieve data from Datastream in Excel. 2

W HAT IS D ATASTREAM ? Historical financial database Create customised reports and charts Dynamic downloads into MS Office Applications (AFO) Wide content coverage

NAVIGATION– 5 STEPS 1)Select a data category 2)Search for and select series using the Datastream Navigator 3)Select the type of request 4)Set the time period and/or frequencies 5)Click on Run Now to execute your request

T ASK O NE Get Overview of Company Performance of Cheung Kong Holdings

T ASK T WO Get Key Account Ratio Report and Simple Charts of HSBC

T ASK T HREE Retrieve Historical Stock Prices of Cheung Kong Holdings

T ASK F OUR Download Financial Data of all HK clothing companies with Market Value Over 2 Billions HKD

T ASK F IVE Download the Unemployment Rate of HK

DS AFO – EXCEL ADD-IN An Excel Add-In component which allows users to build complex models and reports Static data for a specific date e.g. price, market capital value, PE for HSBC at 3 Oct 2012) Time series data for a particular time period e.g. daily price for Cheung Kong from 01/01/1974 to 01/01/2012

T ASK S IX Download Statistics using Excel DS-AFO: Looking for Imports & Exports of Goods/Services for Singapore

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