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Bloomberg Essentials Online Training Program

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Hello, and welcome to the equity session of the Bloomberg Essentials Online Training Program. My name is Rosie Genao, and the goal of this training session is to get you acclimated with our equity functionality so you can quickly and easily navigate through the tools that will be vital for your daily investment analysis. I will start with key news functions that will keep you up-to-speed with headlines that can affect your investment strategies, as well as the equities markets on the whole. From there, we will walk through functionality that will help you quickly assess the trends of the equities markets. Finally, we will focus on how you can best use Bloomberg for investment idea generation and in-depth security analysis. …show more content…

And when I do that, again, you’ll see that the topic itself appears. When you select on earnings, the bottom part of the screen will allow you to start previewing some of the results that are related to earnings. I’ll go back to my search at the top and input India because I’d like to filter for earnings news within India. And when I do that, again, as you can see, you’ll see India appear at the very top. As you continue to add criteria, the results will continue to update at the bottom under preview results. There are other ways on the terminal to find what you need specifically with news. There are pre-set news monitors on the terminal that you can use to get stories as they are released within a specific topic. For example, going along with our example of earnings, if you’re interested in news related to earnings in general, you can run NI ERN. And what that will do is select or pull up a scrolling news monitor of news only on earnings. These pre-set news monitors, as you saw, start with NI and are streaming in real time. The news articles will appear and will flash as the stories come in. As you can see, from here you can further refine the search to meet your specific investment analysis criteria. You can either click on 97 actions at the very top and edit the search, or you can simply add additional keywords in the narrow search box. Bloomberg also provides direct access to sell side and

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