1. MFE & The Business Library C.B. “Bud” Johnston Library Alie Visser, Business Librarian buslib@ivey.uwo.ca www.lib.uwo.ca/business/

2. Who We Are 5 full-time staff members: Elizabeth, Alie, Dolly, Patrick, and Jean Contact us via email at buslib@ivey.uwo.cabuslib@ivey.uwo.ca Call us at 519-661-3941 Follow us! @westernulibsBUS

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

4. Databases Over 60 databases Business Databases by Subject Economics – Financial Economics Research Guide

5. Popular Finance/Econ Databases

6. Finding Business News Business Databases by Subject  Articles  Business & Economics Magazines & Journals

7. Finding Country & Economic Info 1.Business Monitor 2.Economist Intelligence Unit 3.OECD iLibrary 4.Passport (Euromonitor) 5.Political Risk Yearbook

8. Bloomberg Professional Equities, securities, companies Bonds, fixed income Indices, commodities, currencies Economic data Data sets What is it used for?

9. Bloomberg Keyboard Yellow = market sector Green = action Red = stop

10. http://youtu.be/5ggXHGs0OKg Bloomberg Introduction

11. Helpful Beginner Codes TK Ticker EQS Equity screener GRAB Send screen to email BU Bloomberg university – seminars, events, training

12. 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

13. Bloomberg via Excel Extracting large data sets More than one security Import Bloomberg tickers, CUSIP, ISIN and retrieve data

14. Bloomberg Excel Add-In Next, you will choose your Time Frame and Frequency

15. Bloomberg Essentials 2 Core courses + 1 Market Sector course Must have 75% to be certified

16. Capital IQ Excel Add-In

18. 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-

19. 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-

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