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Overview

 

Bloomberg provides financial software tools such as an analytics and equity trading platform, data services, and news to financial companies and organizations. Bloomberg is an integrated system that connects market participants to groundbreaking data, analytics, and information-delivery service. The core disciplines include Accounting, Economics, Finance, Management, Marketing, Real Estate, and Supply Chain. 

Bloomberg Terminal 

The Bloomberg Terminal® is built on functions and securities designed to deliver cutting-edge innovation, fast access to indispensable news, data, and trading tools from any internet-connected PC or mobile device — and helping its subscribers turn knowledge into action. 

  • Functions are applications designed to provide targeted information and analysis on either the broad financial markets or on a specific security.  

  • Securities are the financial instruments you can analyze.  

  Bloomberg Terminal locations on campus:           

TERMIANL LOCATION

NUMBER OF TERMINALS

CSB ECON AND FINANCE DEPARTMENT

2

EDWARD JONES ROOM (CONGDON HALL)

8

UNCW LIBRARY (First Floor DISCOVERY HALL)

4

 

Bloomberg for Education 

Bloomberg for Education offers a series of credentials that will boost your knowledge through e-learning courses that provide a self-paced, interactive way to explore different areas of business disciplines, market insights, and powerful data visualization tools  

Bloomberg Market Concepts (Fifth Edition) 

Bloomberg Market Concepts (BMC) e-learning courses provide an interactive introduction to the financial markets available in 8-course modules: Economic Indicators, Currencies, Fixed Income, Equities, Terminal Basics, Portfolio Management, Stock Options, and Commodities.  

Environmental Social Governance 

The Bloomberg ESG Certificate e-learning course shows learners how to implement ESG strategies and prepare ESG reports for regulators through the lens of a fictitious buy-side asset management firm 7-course modules: Introduction to ESG & Sustainable Finance; Researching & Adopting ESG; Negative Exclusionary Screening and Positive Screening; ESG Integration - Fixed Income; ESG Integration – Equities; Corporate Governance & Shareholder Activism; Reporting Sustainability Activities.