LibGuides: International Business: Economic and Financial Data (including Bloomberg Professional)

On this page, you will find guidance to using Bloomberg Professional.

The Bloomberg terminals will be relocating on Tuesday 6th May to a new and exciting trading floor temporarily located in Norfolk Building Room 504, before moving to the brand new Langsett Building in the heart of the city campus, ready for the new academic year. Bloomberg is terminal access only.

Bloomberg Professional

The Bloomberg Professional contains international company financials, stock market statistics, additional global economic and investment data as well as the latest business news from around the world.
The PDF document (below) guides you through how to search the database:

Bloomberg Professional User Guide
How to search using Bloomberg
User guide for searching Bloomberg
Bloomberg Market Concept (BMC) Guidance
The BMC is an online, interactive course that introduces the financial markets. There is an opportunity to gain a certificate which can strengthen your employability.
This document provides instructions of how to log into the course on a Bloomberg terminal.
Adding the Bloomberg Tab on Excel
If you would like to extract data from Bloomberg, the Bloomberg Excel Add-In can help you do this through the Spreadsheet Builder tool.
This document provides instructions for adding the Bloomberg Excel Add-In if the Bloomberg tab is not appearing on Excel.

Getting Started with Bloomberg
This video will introduce you to using Bloomberg for the first time.
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Content includes:
- Registering and logging into
Bloomberg.
- How to search.
- Saving and exporting to Excel.
- Citing and referencing Bloomberg.
- Further support (including accessing
Bloomberg Market Concepts).

Alternatives to Bloomberg

FT.com
Online access to the Financial Times newspaper. Includes an 8-year searchable archive of news articles, as well as a browsable version of today's newspaper (available in 5 different editions: UK, Europe, US, Asia and Mid East). See the World section for information on the Global Economy and Emerging Markets.
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Search Tip: If you have problems accessing Full text on FT.com:
- go to FT.com
- go to "My Account" and click on "Sign out".
- close your browser - to clear all your logins
- come back here follow this link to login again.
Filings Expert
Filings Expert provides access to over 14 million global company filings. Available information includes annual reports; investor presentations, press releases and SEC filings.
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Search Tip: By selecting the “Geography” filter, you can choose particular locations.
Marketline Advantage
Marketline Advantage provides quality information on industries, countries and companies and is updated daily. It has interactive reports and databases and is ideal for understanding companies and sectors.
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Search Tip: Alongside the search bar, you can choose “country & risk reports” as well as “country profiles”. “Country profiles” are particularly useful for PESTLE analyses.
How to Search MarketLine Advantage
This video will help you to learn how to access and use MarketLine Advantage.
ShareCast
Free website providing access to UK and international share prices, live trading charts, international company research and financial market news alerts. Published by Web Financial Group.
Bloomberg.com
US website providing finance news, stock market data, and personal finance resources. Can be used as a less comprehensive, but free, online alternative to the Bloomberg Professional service.

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