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Datastream searching for book to market
A query this morning uncovered a situation where some care is needed when searching in Thomson Reuters Datastream. We were looking for the “book to market” value for a company. It turns ou… more →
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Datastream searching for book to market
wrote 1 month ago: A query this morning uncovered a situation where some care is needed when searching in Thomson Reute … more →
Worldscope - coverage and data definitions
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wrote 1 month ago: Worldscope is the global company accounts “database” from Thomson Reuters and thus a key … more →
Currency conversion in Datastream
wrote 1 month ago: The default for Datastream is to give data, price (P), market value (MV), total assets (WC02999) etc … more →
Bloomberg training events, presented by specialists from Bloomberg
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wrote 2 months ago: NEW Bloomberg training events, 20-21 March Next week we are hosting new Bloomberg Professional train … more →
Bloomberg Highlights from Datapoints blog
wrote 2 months ago: Bloomberg Professional is such a large finanical information system that you can always learn someth … more →
Female CEOs of FTSE 350 companies
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wrote 2 months ago: Today, 8 March 2013, is International Women’s Day so here are the the women who are CEOs (Chie … more →
Using Merge to select results in an event study
wrote 2 months ago: There are times when the database query doesn’t match the data that you are trying to obtain. … more →
UK loses AAA rating (sovereign debt ratings)
wrote 2 months ago: The decision of the credit rating agency Moody’s to downgrade the United Kingdom from AAA to A … more →
World Equity Indices (benchmark / key indices)
wrote 2 months ago: Datastream Equity Indices (click to expand) The Datastream Navigator gives quick access to the key e … more →
GMID now Passport
wrote 3 months ago: Global Market Information Database (GMID) from Euromonitor has now been renamed Passport. At the mom … more →
News and deals (Dell and Virgin media)
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wrote 3 months ago: There were two stories on the BBC Business News recently that provided a reminder of how deals gener … more →
From website to company - e.g. ClickandBuy
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wrote 3 months ago: You want to find the company behind a website. Sometimes there will be an “About us” pag … more →
Risk Free Rate and Fama French factors
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wrote 4 months ago: Throughout 2012 Risk Free Rate for US and US has consistently been one of our top posts, and the rel … more →
Returns in 2012
wrote 4 months ago: When looking at the performance of a share (stock) or index for the year 2012 you will often see a g … more →
Referencing databases (Bloomberg, Datastream etc.)
wrote 5 months ago: Based on our popular “Guide to citing references guide (2012)” here are recommendations … more →
Researching A Global Company using Bloomberg - in 15 mins
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wrote 6 months ago: One of the strengths of Bloomberg Professional is that it provides a great deal of quoted company in … more →
Browsing Business News - for free
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wrote 6 months ago: Students and staff can make use of University of Manchester Library resources to browse recent news. … more →
Datastream - coping with name changes
wrote 6 months ago: In Datastream you can search for companies (equities*) by name using the Datastream Navigator. Howev … more →
Thomson One Banker - Dissertation Research
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wrote 6 months ago: Thomson One Banker (Thomson Reuters) is a Specialist Financial Database. As part of Dissertation Res … more →
