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Datastream Professional
- This module gives you an overview of the latest version of Datastream Charting, available to customers on 23 March 2013
- Watch this video for an introduction to the key features and benefits of Datastream. Datastream is the most comprehensive economic and financial time series database. With access to an unrivalled set of historical financial content, you can investigate the correlations and relationships between global economic indicators and various asset classes.
Total Running Time 3:36 - Total Running Time 3:54
- Datastream Professional gives you access to Datastream’s market leading macro and financial databases which offers highly flexible, intuitive analytical tools and easy to navigate interfaces. With Navigator as the launch pad and driver of the workspace, navigating Datastream is now even easier.
Total Running Time 4:08 - This course covers the following topics:
Introduction (1:09)
Retrieving News for macro content and using collaboration tools (3:24)
Constructing and exporting Datastream Charts (5:25)
Creating and sharing a Forecast Chart (8:43)
Using Datastream Professional to create a stock list (3:56)
Viewing news, research and real-time data for a stock set (4:33)
Import a DFO List into Datastream Professional (8:43)
Creating and Exporting Charts for a List (5:35) - In this module, learn how to access Thomson Reuters MarketBoard on your iPad and easily access Indices, news and corporate calendar events.
Total Running Time 4:38 - This course covers the following topics:
Introducing the Report Builder (2:23)
Report Builder Customizations (2:51)
Creating Reports (2:42)
Custom Templates (1:08)
Automating Template Reporting (2:17) - This course covers the following topics:
Searching for Data (1:35)
Searching Across Asset Classes (1:48)
The Monitoring Overview Page (1:36)
Classification Overview (2:26)
Portfolio Contribution View (2:18)
Working with Real Time Contribution (4:46)
Winners and Losers and Unusual Volume (1:40)
Viewing Multiple Portfolios in the Dashboard View (1:35)
Report Builder (4:48)
Snapshot View (1:47)
Watchlist Activity (2:10) Just Added (3)
- Looking at aggregate Price to Intrinsic Values at a country level has yielded impressive historic results, according to StarMine research.
Total Running Time 2:40 - This course includes the following topics:
• Creating a Simple Pie Chart (2:12)
• Creating a Pie Chart from a List and Sorting
Segments (2:41)
• Adding a Second Date Point (1:35)
• Calculating Remainders and Applying Styles (2:20)
• Creating and Formatting Stacked Area Charts (1:16) - This module includes the following topics:
• Creating a Simple Regression Model (3:00)
• Calculating Residuals (2:30)
• Editing a Regression Model (2:54)
• Using Regression Models to Create Forecasts (3:00)
Currently in the news (1)
Search and Navigation (3)
- Version 4.2 of Datastream Navigator sees significant enhancements to the explorer hierarchies and the way you navigate through these hierarchies, extensions to the filtering facilities to quickly narrow down the series to the ones required, and a major extension to the content with the addition of options continuous and individual series.
Total Running Time 4:00 - Thomson Reuters has teamed up with Fathom Consulting to offer Datastream customers access to Fathom’s analytical content through a new library of Fathom charts.
Total Running Time 3:31 - This video will demonstrate how to find Bond Indices and constituent lists to support selecting asset allocations, performance benchmarking and constructing structured products. Datastream and leading index suppliers including Iboxx and Merrill Lynch provide comprehensive coverage and history for this essential data.
Total Running Time 6:05
Datastream in MS Office (2)
- This course covers the following topics:
- About Datastream For Office(1:20)
- Build a Time Series Request (4:04)
- Build a Static Request (3:15)
- Editing Embedded Requests (1:18) - This course covers the following topics:
• Creating a Request table (7:42)
• Creating a Chart Request (2:34)
• Using a pre-built Tearsheet (1:47)
Getting Started with Datastream Charting (6)
- This module gives you an overview of the latest version of Datastream Charting, available to customers on 23 March 2013
- This module covers the following topics.
• Access Datastream Charting (01:09)
• About the Chart page (04:00)
• About the Library tab (06:16)
• Navigating Key Indicators and Exporting Data
to Excel (04:08)
• Other Datastream Charting Tabs(01:07)
• Help and Support (01:05) - This course covers the following topics:
• Create a New Blank Chart (02:31)
• Apply Datatypes (02:19)
• Apply Currency Conversion to All Series (01:37)
• Apply Functions (02:41)
• Change the Date Range (02:12)
• Change Chart Settings (03:17)
• Rebasing Charts (01:07)
• Save a Chart (02:30)
• Load a Saved Chart (01:53)
• Project: How do I rebase a Chart(03:25) - This course covers the following topics:
• Changing Chart Settings (03:05)
• Customizing Chart Legends (01:26)
• Customizing Chart Axes (01:32)
• Changing a Locked Setting (01:28) - This course includes the following topics.
• Create a New Chart Style (04:35)
• Apply a Style to a Chart (01:30)
• Apply a Style to Multiple Charts (01:05)
• Editing Several Charts at once (01:35)
• Setting a Default Style (01:17)
• Using Transparency Settings on a Chart (02:10)
• Change a Locked Setting (01:18)
• Save a Change to an Existing Style (01:34)
• Apply Datastream Styles to Charts in Excel (01:16) - This course covers the following topics:
Export a Chart to Microsoft Excel (1:54)
Export a Chart to Microsoft Word (2:10)
Export a Template to Microsoft Office (1:40)
Export Multiple Charts to Microsoft Office (2:23)
Export a chart as an Image File (2:45)
Share a Live Chart URL (2:27)
Share a chart using the Edit URL (1:46)
Set Sharing Preferences (2:05)
Refresh charts from Microsoft Office (2:09)
Running a template from Microsoft Excel (1:26)
Using the Chart Manager (4:25)
Refresh locally-stored chart images (0:57)
Working with Datastream Charts (9)
- This module includes the following topics:
• Creating a Simple Regression Model (3:00)
• Calculating Residuals (2:30)
• Editing a Regression Model (2:54)
• Using Regression Models to Create Forecasts (3:00) - This module includes the following topics:
- Adding Recession Bands to a Chart (4:03)
- Add a Political Band (0:52)
- Creating Shaded Bands Based on Fixed Dates (1:33)
- Creating Shaded Bands Based on a Condition (2:11) - This course covers the following topics:
About Annotations (1:11)
Annotate a series with Substitutable Text (3:14)
Create Complex Annotations using Substitutable Text (2:07)
Add Text Boxes (1:27)
Add a Recession Band (4:05)
Add Horizontal and Vertical Annotation Lines (3:01)
Add Freehand Lines (1:47)
Add Circles and rectangles (2:36)
Add Markers to Lines (2:13)
Change Annotation Styles (3:32) - This course covers the following topics:
Create and Save a Template (3:56)
Export a Template to Microsoft Office (1:03)
Running a Template from the Library (2:06)
Editing a Template (1:16)
Exercise: Convert a Chart to a Template and Change a Data Series (1:16) - This course covers the following topics:
• Adding a Chart to a Shared Collection (02:58)
• Adding a Chart to a Private Collection (01:55)
• Editing Charts in a Collection (02:02)
• Exporting Charts from a Collection (01:32) - This course covers the following topics:
Find a Sample Chart in the Datastream Library (1:20)
How to Use the Line Correlation Dialog (1:35)
Set the Correlation Spectrum (1:06)
Apply the Best Fit Shift to a Chart (2:30)
Apply Forecasts to a Datastream Chart (2:36)
Editing a User Forecast (1:56)
Apply Slicing to a chart (3:38)
Edit and customize a sliced chart (1:47)
Exercise: Add a Correlation to an Existing Chart (1:00) - This OnDemand Video showcases how Datastream charting enables you to apply pre-defined and user created functions plus analysis including Correlation. Correlation is a powerful tool that allows you to analyze the relationship between multiple time-series data.
Total Running Time 3:49 - This course includes the following topics:
• Setting Sharing Preferences (1:54)
• Sharing a Live Chart URL (2:08)
• Sharing a Chart using the Edit URL (1:14) - This course covers the following topics:
Rebasing Charts (3:13)
Slicing a chart (3:03)
Adjusting for seasonality and cyclical effects (3:12)
Adding Custom Forecasts (4:43)
Using Scatter charts to analyze economic data (5:33)
Creating a Static Bar chart (6:45)
Datastream Charting: More Charts and Analysis Tools (7)
- This course includes the following topics:
• Creating a Simple Pie Chart (2:12)
• Creating a Pie Chart from a List and Sorting
Segments (2:41)
• Adding a Second Date Point (1:35)
• Calculating Remainders and Applying Styles (2:20)
• Creating and Formatting Stacked Area Charts (1:16) - This module demonstrates:
Applying Forecasts to a Datastream Chart (2:12)
Editing a User Forecast (2:47)
PROJECT: Apply Forecasts to an Economics Chart (4:26) - This module demonstrates:
Applying Slicing to a Chart (01:40)
Edit and Customize a Sliced Chart (02: 47)
Using Slicing and Seasonality to Analyze Economic Data (2:55)
Apply Slicing to an Economics Chart (2:58) - This module demonstrates:
Creating a Time Series Scatter Chart (1:20)
Customizing a Scatter Chart (3:02)
Adding Series and Relevant Information to a Time Series Scatter Chart (4:35)
Annotating a Scatter Chart (3:35) - This module demonstrates:
Creating a Static Scatter Chart (3:53)
Annotating Points on a Static Scatter Chart (2:54)
Customizing a Static Scatter Chart (3:26)
PROJECT: Use Static Scatter Charts to Analyze Economic Data (5: 41) - This module demonstrates:
About Static Bar Charts (1:31)
Importing Charts and Tables (4:13)
Adding date points to a Static Bar Chart (2:55)
Changing the layout of a Static Bar Chart (3:22)
PROJECT: Use a Static Bar Chart to Analyze Economic Data (5:18) - This module demonstrates:
Creating a multi-pane chart (1:34)
Customizing a multi-pane chart (4:43)
Datastream Charting: Tips and Tricks (3)
- Datastream allows you to monitor shifts in yield curves over time, compare yields and swap rates across major global markets as market events unfold. Customizable scatter graphs also provide two variables such as duration and maturity allowing you to generate trading ideas or exit strategies from a bond position.
Total Running Time 4:29 - This course offers an overview of new features in Datastream Charting 2.4 (2:54)
- Productivity tips from Datastream experts, including
Make sure your chart always shows the latest value (1:05)
How do I rebase all the series in a chart? (0:52)
How to export a group of charts (0:53)
Switching off chart gridlines (0:46)
How to show the latest value of a series (1:37)
How to switch off the right hand Y axis (0:47)
How to set the Default style for all charts (1:26)
How to wrap text in an annotation (0:50)
Adding a default date stamp to a chart. (0:55)
How do you display all economic series in the same unit (0:55)
Credit Analysis (1)
- This course covers the following topics:
Searching for Bonds by Issuer (1:14)
Exploring the Advanced Bond Search Filters (1:45)
The Load List Feature (4:27)
Loading a Symbol List (1:57)
The Scatter Chart (2:34)
Exploring the Bond Information Pages (3:49)
The View Charting and Add to Charting Functions (1:57)
The Maturity Profile and Group Profile Pages (1:30)
CDS Search Overview (2:15)
Viewing CDS Search Results on a Scatter Plot(1:28)
The CDS Monitor (2:17)
The CDS Curve and Benchmark Curve Pages (1:20)
The Benchmark Bonds and Benchmark Curves Pages (2:07)
Analytics and Tools (5)
- This module includes the following topics:
• Creating a Simple Regression Model (3:00)
• Calculating Residuals (2:30)
• Editing a Regression Model (2:54)
• Using Regression Models to Create Forecasts (3:00) - This course is an introduction to working with Functions and Expressions in Datastream Charting and Datastream Advance for Office (AFO)
This course covers the following topics:
About Datastream Functions and Expressions (3:53)
About Static Functions (3:30)
About Moving Format Functions (3:12)
Working with Calendar Functions (4:39)
Using the Rebasing function in a Time Series Request (3:28)
About the Expression Builder (1:49)
Using the Expression Builder to create a simple expression (3:37)
Using a Custom Expression in Datastream AFO (1:46)
Using a Custom Expression in Datastream Charting (1:22) - User created indices are valuable additions to your suite of research and analysis tools, enabling you to track the performance of your own stocks and portfolios, and measure performance against variations on established market indices and other benchmarks.
Course outline:
- Overview
- The UCI Manager
- The UCI Template
- Using User Created Indices
- This course covers the following topics:
Accessing the User Created Time Series template (1:20)
Create a User Created Time Series (5:10)
Accessing a User Created Time Series from Datastream Charting (1:08)
Adding a User Created Time Series to a Request (1:22)
Editing a User Created Time Series (3:00) - This module covers the following topics:
• About User Created Lists (1:46)
• Create a List from a Range (2:38)
• Creating a List from Datastream Navigator (2:02)
• Accessing User Created Lists from a Request (1:06)
• Accessing User Created Lists from a Datastream Charting Template (1:04)
Workflow (3)
- This video demonstrates how Datastream Professional supports the Analyst workflow.
Total Running Time 7:35 - This video demonstrates how Datastream Professional supports the Portfolio Manager workflow.
Total Running Time 5:53 - This On Demand video demonstrates how Datastream Professional supports the Economist / Strategist workflow.
Total Running Time 8:03
Exploring the Data Content (8)
- The Thomson Reuters Canadian Fixed Income Indices provide comprehensive coverage of the Canadian fixed income universe. The indices are suitable as benchmarks for portfolio management, an indicator of market performance and development, and the basis of comparison for different markets.
Total Running Time 2:53 - The Consensus ® Bullish Sentiment Index collection can help you to predict price trends, anticipate future market swings, and make better investment decisions.
Total Running Time 3:39 - This video demonstrates how to use IBES Global Aggregates to compare markets and sectors.
Total Running Time 4:16 - Thomson Reuters Asset4 provides a one-stop shop of ESG information which may be accessed via Datastream, allowing users to seamlessly combine and analyze ESG data with financial metrics. Watch this video to learn how to access and use this information in Datastream.
Total Running Time 3:17 - Watch this video for an overview of our Estimates offering, providing you with a unique insight into what makes this dataset stand out. This video features David Gelinas, Content Specialist at Thomson Reuters
Total Running Time 2:58 - The goal of this video is to give you an overview of our Fundamentals offering, providing you with a unique insight into what makes this dataset stand out. This video features David Coluccio, Content Specialist at Thomson Reuters.
Total Running Time 2:37 - Watch this video for an overview of our StreetEvents offering, which provides a unique insight into what makes this dataset stand out. With StreetEvents, you can access corporate disclosures and brokerage events from over 18,000 public companies and 100 sell-side firms in over 90 countries.
Total Running Time 2:55 - Total Running Time 4:24
Idea of the Week Archive (25)
- Looking at aggregate Price to Intrinsic Values at a country level has yielded impressive historic results, according to StarMine research.
Total Running Time 2:40 - Looking at aggregate Price to Intrinsic Values at a country level has yielded impressive historic results, according to StarMine research.
Total Running Time 2:16 - Developed Europe offers more companies when screening for characteristics that Warren Buffett likes as compared to the U.S., though both regions carry a good portion of names in the Industrials and Consumer Cyclicals sectors.
Total Running Time 2:53 - Warren Buffett’s screening criteria is applied to mid cap stocks between $3 and $10 billion; using StarMine screening and analytics, we found three names with strong scores.
Total Running Time 3:00 - The S&P 500 Financials sector garnered five top ranks out of eleven StarMine models.
Total Running Time 3:41 - In the search for dividend yield, our Low Yield and Low Payout list has outperformed the market thus far in 2013. Four stocks on this list are analyzed.
Total Running Time 3:11 - Avoiding stocks with lower StarMine quant model scores may help refine the stock selection process.
Total Running Time 3:14 - Larger Developed Country stocks show above average revenue growth potential for 2013, though Ireland leads the region.
Total Running Time 2:41 - Larger Developed Country stocks show above average revenue growth potential for 2013, though Ireland leads the region.
Total Running Time 2:38 - Looking at stocks with StarMine factors that institutions find attractive, while filtering out low rankings in one StarMine credit default model, reveals over 250 names moving into 2013.
Total Running Time 3:12 - StarMine screening helps identify a higher growth portfolio of stocks that have yielded market-beating results since 1990, along with higher than average earnings growth forecasts.
Total Running Time 3:03 - Investors of all stripes seem to get a lot of advice on what to buy, but not on what they should avoid, sell, or sell short. Here’s where the systematic, unbiased StarMine models can help. Using more systematic and unbiased StarMine models, the Industrials sector as well as Healthcare and Consumer Discretionary sectors may serve up the most fertile number of candidates that may under-perform the general market.
Total Running Time 3:12 - StarMine’s Text Mining Credit Risk Model Offers short sellers and long buyers an uncorrelated complement to their current analytical toolset.
Total Running Time 3:54 - Owning Gold has beaten owning the S&P 500 in the past 5 years, except for temporary periods of central bank and government statements and interventions.
Total Running Time 3:01 - Q3 Aggregate analyst earnings and revenue forecasts for the S&P 500 have been coming down, and a poor start to earnings season may push Q4 projections in the same direction.
Total Running Time 3:07 - The strategy of owning Berkshire’s investment portfolio in public companies has worked better than owning Berkshire shares themselves based on analysis using Datastream charting and StarMine.
Total Running Time 2:57 - Total Running Time 4:48
- In times of high uncertainty, owning stocks with higher earnings quality might help investors sleep easier than without them.
Total Running Time 3:44 - StarMine Aggregates and Datastream charting reveals an opportunity in Mexico.
Total Running Time 3:43 - StarMine aggregates show wide spreads between Euro Zone analyst forecast EPS growth and market reality.
Total Running Time 3:42 - Datastream Economic and StarMine Earnings Forecasts Suggest Avoiding Chinese Stocks.
Total Running Time 4:02 - Datastream Economic and StarMine Earnings Forecasts Indonesian forecasts a bit better than those for China.
Total Running Time 3:07 - Industrials, Technology and Consumer Discretionary - Stocks most likely sectors to be bought in the next 90 days, according StarMine’s Smart Holdings Model
Total Running Time 3:16 - “Sell in May” does not apply to the more defensive economic sectors: Using Starmine & QA Studio to test 10 economic sectors.
Total Running Time 3:27 - Stocks in Mosy global regions are doing well so far this year. This video shows how Starmine Aggregates may be used to observe one metric in a many places.
Total Running Time 3:41