Bloomberg Get Start Guide

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bLOOMbERG FOR EDUCaTION

a bloomberg Professional Service Offering

GETTING STaRTED GUIDE

FOR STUDENTS // FEbRUaRy 2012

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02 bLOOMbERG TERMINaL®

02 The bloomberg Keyboard 03 accessing the application 04 Logging In 05 bloomberg Panels

06 FUNCTIONS & SECURITIES

06 Running Functions 07 Working with Securities

09 basic Search (autocomplete) 10 Full Search 11 browsing Menus

09 NavIGaTION

12 PERFORMING aNaLySIS

12 Navigating Functions 13 Stock/Company Screening 14 analyzing a Company 15 analyzing an Index, bond or Currency

16 ExPORTING DaTa

16 The bloomberg Excel add-In 19 Drag & Drop 19 Printing and Other Export Options

20 GETTING HELP aND LEaRNING MORE

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21 aPPENDIx

21 Equity 21 Fundamental analysis 22 analytics 23 M&a analysis 23 Fixed Income 25 Swaps 26 Money Markets 27 Structured Finance analytics 28 Price Discovery 29 analytics 29 Descriptive 29 Relative value 29 Ticketing 29 Hedging 30 additional FI Functions 31 FI Futures and Options 32 Repo analysis Data 32 Calculators 33 High yield/Syndicated Loans/Distressed Research 34 Municipal bonds

INTRODUCTION

For more than 20 years, bloomberg has been committed to helping universities and colleges incorporate the bLOOMbERG PROFESSIONaL® service into their academic programs to better prepare students for the global job market.

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Universities and colleges around the globe use Bloomberg to bring the real world of finance into the classroom, providing students with access to the same information platform used by leading decision makers in business, finance and government. The BLOOMBERG PROFESSIONAL® service and

BLOOMBERG TERMINAL® seamlessly integrate the very best in data, news and analytics. The Terminal is a 24-hour, global financial services system that provides transparent and reliable financial, economic and government information covering all...