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Introduction to Bloomberg Professional

Bloomberg Professional is a key financial source for current and historical information on equities, fixed income securities, foreign exchange, derivatives and commodities. Also included are company profiles and financial statements, analysts' forecasts, market news and global economic data. Excel Add-in is available for data extraction.

Five Bloomberg (BBG) terminals are located at the Information Commons on the Library G/F. Use your ITSC username and password to log in to the station. You will also need to provide BBG username and password to access the database. Generic BBG logins are attached to the terminals.

All stations are available for online booking. Bookings are limited to 2 hours per session. You may book at most one session per day, two sessions per week.

The tutorials in this Bloomberg Series will show you how to navigate Bloomberg. You may access Bloomberg using the dedicated terminals available at the Library (Information Commons, G/F).

• Tutorial 1: How to log on to Bloomberg
• Tutorial 2: How to read Bloomberg ticker symbols
• Tutorial 3: What online support and learning resources are available on Bloomberg
• Tutorial 4: How to find the market capitalization and financial ratios of a company
• Tutorial 5: How to find research reports and analyst recommendations on a company
• Tutorial 6: How to find the stock prices of multiple securities over a period of time
• Tutorial 7: How to find the constituents of a stock index
• Tutorial 8: How to find and download the last price and P/E ratio for the constituents of a stock index over a period of time in Excel
• Tutorial 9: How to create a list of companies with the desired criteria
• Tutorial 10: How to find information on mergers and acquisitions

Bloomberg Keyboard Basics

Bloomberg (BBG) keyboard is a specialized and color-coded keyboard that helps users navigating through the system. The look of the BBG Keyboard is very similar to the standard computer keyboard, but there are several unique features including:

• Color-coded keys
• Biometric sensor
• Built-in speakers

Color Hot Keys

The color keys are function keys with different commands:

<Red Keys>

CONN DFLT	Log in / Log out
CANCEL	Cancel a command

<Green Keys> - green keys are "Action" keys

ENTER/GO	Execute your command
HELP	- Press "once" to get assistance on a particular page/function - Press "twice" to get real time assistance from BBG 24x7 Helpdesk (***important note: there was a policy change in April 2014 that university accounts would NOT be able to raise live Help chats.)
MENU	Press to return to previous screen
Pg UP/BACK	Press to scroll backward in a multiple-page screen
Pg Dn/FWD	Press to scroll forward in a multiple-page screen
MESSAGE	Bloomberg Message

<Blue Key>

PANEL

To move between screens.

<Yellow Keys> - yellow keys are "Market Sector" key

LAW (F1)	Global laws, regulations and related news
GOVT (F2)	Securities by governments (e.g. Treasury)
CORP (F3)	Corporate bonds
MTGE (F4)	Mortgage market instruments
M-MKT (F5)	Money market instruments
MUNI (F6)	U.S. municipal bonds
PFD (F7)	Preferred securities
EQUITY (F8)	Common stocks, derivatives, ETFs, etc
CMDTY (F9)	Commodities and related derivatives
INDEX (F10)	Equity indices and economic indices
CRNCY (F11)	Currency information (e.g. FX)