Bloomberg
- Bloomberg
Provides analysis and quotes for equities and indices; current company, industry, and market news; and economic data for countries around the world.
UTSA faculty, students, and staff can search Bloomberg from one of sixteen workstations. One workstation is located in the 2nd floor Business Information Hub in the John Peace Library building. Fifteen workstations are located in the Financial Studies Lab in the Alvarez College of Business.
Both UTSA Libraries and Alvarez College of Business don’t have access to Bloomberg Anywhere - equivalent to the Bloomberg Terminal via the web.
Bloomberg Terminal’s Log-in Requirement:
• Bloomberg is only available on designated workstations at UTSA.
• First-time users: in order to obtain your Bloomberg login credentials, please log into a Bloomberg workstation with your UTSA abc123 and register with the Bloomberg system using your UTSA email.
Access Supply Chain Data and Info from Bloomberg
- Access a Bloomberg terminal (in Financial Lab at UTSA College of Business or JPL 2nd floor)
- After getting into Bloomberg program, hit the F8 = EQUITY yellow key
- Then hit <GO>
- For performing supply chain research of a compnay, type company ticker (e.g. MSFT for Microsoft Corp.)
- Then, the company ticker followed by SPLC <GO> to access the Supply Chain Analysis function.
- Now, you should get all the company’s suppliers and customers will display.
- According to U.S. Department of Commerce Library website: "Bloomberg has data on over 20000 quantified supply chains. The data comes from reputable public sources, including filings with regulatory agencies such as the SEC, company reports and earnings conference call transcripts. Bloomberg then uses a proprietary algorithm to determine the costs that the companies incur in doing business with each of their suppliers as well as the revenue that each supplier derives from doing business with the company. Analysis also includes the cost that customers incur in doing business with the company, and the revenue that the company derives from doing business with customers. "