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MFE & The Business Library C.B. “Bud” Johnston Library Alie Visser, Business Librarian buslib@ivey.uwo.ca www.lib.uwo.ca/business/
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Who We Are 5 full-time staff members: Elizabeth, Alie, Dolly, Patrick, and Jean Contact us via email at buslib@ivey.uwo.cabuslib@ivey.uwo.ca Call us at 519-661-3941 Follow us! @westernulibsBUS
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Library Services Research Help Find Answers Quickly Business Chat & Text www.lib.uwo.ca/business/
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Databases Over 60 databases Business Databases by Subject Economics – Financial Economics Research Guide
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Popular Finance/Econ Databases
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Finding Business News Business Databases by Subject Articles Business & Economics Magazines & Journals
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Finding Country & Economic Info 1.Business Monitor 2.Economist Intelligence Unit 3.OECD iLibrary 4.Passport (Euromonitor) 5.Political Risk Yearbook
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Bloomberg Professional Equities, securities, companies Bonds, fixed income Indices, commodities, currencies Economic data Data sets What is it used for?
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Bloomberg Keyboard Yellow = market sector Green = action Red = stop
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http://youtu.be/5ggXHGs0OKg Bloomberg Introduction
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Helpful Beginner Codes TK Ticker EQS Equity screener GRAB Send screen to email BU Bloomberg university – seminars, events, training
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Economic Codes ECFC - Economic Forecasts ECO - Economic Calendar Releases ECOS - Economist Estimates ECST - World Economic Statistics FED - Federal Reserve GDP - Gross Domestic Product GDPP - Gross Domestic Product Per Capita
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Bloomberg via Excel Extracting large data sets More than one security Import Bloomberg tickers, CUSIP, ISIN and retrieve data
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Bloomberg Excel Add-In Next, you will choose your Time Frame and Frequency
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Bloomberg Essentials 2 Core courses + 1 Market Sector course Must have 75% to be certified
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Capital IQ Excel Add-In
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WRDS Wharton Research Data Services Incudes access to: Compustat: global firm financials going back to 1950 for most CRSP: stock and index pricing, returns and volume going back to 1925- (monthly) or 1962- (daily) I/B/E/S: historical earnings estimates for global firms going back to 1976-
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WRDS Fama-French Portfolios and Factors: 1926 Federal Reserve Bank Reports: includes foreign exchange rates (1971-), interest rates (1919-) and Philadelphia State Indexes (1979-) Bureau of Labor Statistics: 1913- Bureau of Economic Analysis: 1969- TRACE: OTC Corporate Bond (US) Transaction Data going back to 2002-
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Bloomberg & WRDS Accounts If you have time, please come back to the library and set up your Bloomberg & WRDS accounts!
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