MFE & The Business Library

C.B. “Bud” Johnston Library

Alie Visser, Business Librarianbuslib@ivey.uwo.ca

www.lib.uwo.ca/business/

Who We Are• 5 full-time staff members:

Elizabeth, Alie, Dolly, Patrick, and Jean

• Contact us via email at buslib@ivey.uwo.ca

• Call us at 519-661-3941

• Follow us! @westernulibsBUS

Library Services • Research Help• Find Answers Quickly• Business Chat & Text• www.lib.uwo.ca/business/

Databases• Over 60 databases

• Business Databases by Subject

• Economics – Financial Economics Research Guide

Popular Finance/Econ Databases

Finding Business News

Business Databases by Subject

Articles

Business & Economics Magazines & Journals

Finding Country & Economic Info1. Business Monitor

2. Economist Intelligence Unit

3. OECD iLibrary

4. Passport (Euromonitor)

5. Political Risk Yearbook

Bloomberg Professional

• Equities, securities, companies• Bonds, fixed income• Indices, commodities, currencies• Economic data• Data sets

What is itused for?

Bloomberg KeyboardYellow = market sectorGreen = action

Red = stop

http://youtu.be/5ggXHGs0OKg

Bloomberg Introduction

Helpful Beginner Codes

• TK Ticker

• EQS Equity screener

• GRAB Send screen to email

• BU Bloomberg university – seminars, events, training

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

Bloomberg via Excel

• Extracting large data sets• More than one security• Import Bloomberg tickers, CUSIP, ISIN and

retrieve data

Bloomberg Excel Add-In

Next, you will choose your Time Frame and Frequency

Bloomberg Essentials

2 Core courses

+

1 Market Sector course

Must have 75% to be certified

Capital IQ Excel Add-In

Capital IQ Excel Add-In

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-

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-

Bloomberg & WRDS Accounts

If you have time, please come back to the library and set up your Bloomberg & WRDS accounts!