Monday, 22 November 2021

Bloomberg and EIKON Live Financial Data for Projects and Dissertations - Jasper's Xmas Tip number 4

 Are you interested in learning how to search our Financial Data terminals? We have a Bloomberg Terminal and an EIKON Terminal available to book in the Marshall Library. You might find this useful for a project or dissertation you are working on independently. You may also find it useful for your future career!

Bloomberg is a computer software system  that enables professionals in the financial service sector to access Bloomberg Professional Services through which users can monitor and analyze real-time global financial market data. It also provides excellent news feeds



Bloomberg Video Tutorials

If you have not used the Bloomberg Terminal before we recommend you download and read the Bloomberg Getting Started Guide: https://data.bloomberglp.com/professional/sites/10/Getting-Started-Guide-for-Students-English.pdf


Bloomberg: Our Top 25 Tips and Tricks - CJBS video from 2013

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anOUEiraEtg

Three Bloomberg tutorial videos by Eric from May 2020

Part I - Quick Introduction to Basic Functions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ee-x6IXWK8

Part II - Advanced Function Exploration

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia158DGKnhU

Part III - Additional Economic Stock

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKNUxOmQrgw

To book the terminals you can go to this form here: https://www.marshall.econ.cam.ac.uk/contactus/eikon-bloomberg-booking-form

Eikon is a software system used to monitor and analyze financial information. Eikon provides financial professionals with access to market data, analytics, and messaging tools. Information can also be exported to Microsoft Excel for continued data analysis.

Book to use our terminals here: https://www.marshall.econ.cam.ac.uk/contactus/eikon-bloomberg-booking-form