1. How much shares does JG Summit own in PLDT?

OWN

Displays the open/high/low/close chart view of the Price Chart (GP)

2. GPC
function.

Ranks the members of an equity index, basket, or portfolio by pricess

3. GRR
appreciation or total return.

4. What is the Annual GDP rate of the USA last 2015? ECST

QUIC (Correct Answer:

5. What function do you use to check news?
TOP)

6. Who is the richest person in the world right now? RICH

7. Allows you to create and organize all of your custom charts. G

This is the function where you get to book a seat in Bloomberg

8. BU
seminars.
 SECF (Correct Answer:
9. How many bonds are issued/existing if the domicile is China?
SRCH)

10. Which country is the 2nd largest trading partner of the US? ECTR

1. What is the lending rate in Bank of Japan? OLR

OWN
How many shares does the 2nd largest shareholder of Meralco own?
2.

3. How much is the Balance of Payment in China? ECFC

4. What chart do you use to graph the foreign fund flow in a stock index? GP

5. POSH
What function do you use to buy and sell items to other terminal users?

It is your gateway to research from over 1,500 providers, including

6. brokers, independent providers, market research firms, industry RES

associations, and other premium content.

7.
What function do you use to see the flow of foreign funds into the GP
Philippine market?
8. BIO
What function do you use to see the biography of President Duterte?

9. Which country is the 2nd largest trading partner of the US? ECTR

10. GF
How much is the earnings per share of Ayala Land Inc in 2ndQ 2016?

11. MGMT
Who is the CEO of DNL Industries?

12. Which function is used to know who is the largest stockholder of Petron Corp? OWN

13.
This is the chart you use to check the disposal or acquisition of shares by GPTR
insiders of a listed company.

Allows you to quickly identify the strongest and weakest correlations

14. across asset classes, so you can assess the current market environment CFND

at a glance.

15. FA
Where do you find the balance sheet of Semirara Mining?

16. MOST
What are the most traded stocks in PSEi?
17. ECST
Run the function showing the GNP of India.

18. OLR
What is the prevailing Interest rate in Bank of England?

19. What is the Spot rate for USDPHP in 2019? FXFC

Allows you to create and display a variety of FX market data views, so

20. XDSH
you can monitor and react to FX market changes in real time.

This is the use of historical prices of a stock plotted in charts that are Technical
1.
used for forecasting the future movement of prices. Analysis

DES (Correct
2. View related securities and descriptive info for an issuer.
Answer: RELS)

3. Identify holders who can impact a security's price. HDS

Displays the open/high/low/close chart view of the Price Chart (GP)

4. GPO
function.

5. These are the companies that have a proved track record. Blue-chip stocks
 The right of a stockholder to subscribe to additional shares of stocks Pre-Emptive
6.
issued by the company is called __________. Right

Under which economic function of Bloomberg you can see the

7. ECST
demographics of the population of a country?

8. A type of chart pattern. Cup and Handle

EV (Correct Answer:
9. Display company-by-company equity data in a bar chart or histogram.
RVC)

10. How do you look up at all equity indices in the world in Bloomberg? WEI

Function that shows the Board of Directors or the key officers. MGMT
1.

This determines the minimum number of shares an investor can

2. purchase or sell. Board lot

3. Shows how the stock performs per month. SEAG

 Function that shows the dividends issued by the company and its
4. DVD
important dates.

5. This shows the intraday chart of a particular stock. GIP

6. A type of stock brokerage that charges a higher commission rate. Traditional

7. Shows the members belonging to the chosen index. MEMB

Blue chip
8. These are the companies that have a proved track record.
stocks

This is the date that determines whether an investor will be Ex-dividend

9.
entitled of the dividends. date

10. The distribution of a portion of a company’s earnings. Dividends

View the relationship between the ownership and size of a selected

1. EV
company.

It is a live market monitor that allows you to analyze intraday

activity with different performance metrics, such as highest
MOST
2. and lowest volume changes, so you can identify short-term
trends and investment opportunities.

3. MGMT
See company management information about executives.
4. HDS
Identify holders who can impact a security's price.

Enables you to look beyond traditional market perception to

5. determine revenue-derived industry classifications for a CCB

selected security based on the most recent annual results.

6.
A type of stock brokerage that charges a higher commission Traditional
rate.

7. Perform top-down analysis using various industry classifications. ICS

Owned the shares

as of the end of
8. Which condition qualifies a stock holder to receive dividends?
business day before
the ex-date

Provides an interactive pie chart and table views of intraday

market data, so you can analyze intraday price movements
9. IMAP
and news activity across industries, regions, and the
companies that operate within specific segments.

10. Which is not an Asia Pacific Equity Index FTSE100

You can use _____ to access consolidated financial data and

fundamental background information for a specific stock,
11. DES
warrant, mutual fund, equity option, synthetic option, or
exchange-traded fund (ETF).
 Allows you to display a history of a company's distributions.
Distribution history provides insight into a commitment to
12. paying dividends and can help you identify investment DVD

opportunities in dividend paying companies. History includes

cash dividends and other distributions, such as stock splits.

Shows you ratings and target prices from market analysts, so

13. you can see who is bullish or bearish on an equity and watch ANR

the evolution of recommendations over time.

Allows you to display a summary of BEst (Bloomberg

Estimates) consensus estimates, so you can track the
14. EEO
earnings performance of a selected security by monitoring 18
different estimates and five key market valuation measures.

TIP (Correct Answer:

15. View the lead managers in an offer by listed firms to the public.
CACS)

Allows you to quickly assess the impact of a surprise

announcement on a stock's performance by comparing
16. historical announcements for the stock against consensus ERN

estimates so you can gauge historical stock price reaction to

the announcements.

17. See actual and estimated guidance measures for a company. GUID

This Bloomberg function can screen stocks into your desired criteria
18. EQS
as to exchange, country of domicile and sectors.
 Ranks the members of an equity index, basket, or portfolio by
price appreciation or total return, so you can quickly identify
19. MRR
under-performing and over-performing stocks as potential
trade ideas.

Provides research on industries, companies, and expert

topics, delivering key data and interactive charting from BI
20. BI
analysts with an average of seventeen years of experience in
their given industry.

1.

Which code can you find the Inflation rate of the Philippines?

IFMO

This
Bloomberg
function
calculates
the
RATC (Correct
probability
2. Answer:
for any
FXFM)
currency
pair to touch
a price level
from today
to any date
 in the
future.

3.

Gain macro and market insights via geographic data visualization.

MAPS

4.

Which is not a major currency?

SGD

This code
allows you
to monitor
spot and
forward
exchange
rates for a
selected
5. currency FXFR
pair, so you
can
determine
the actual
rates to use
when
entering
into forward
 rate
agreements
with specific
banks.

This
function
allows you
to customize
the FX
volatility
surface for a
selected
currency
6. pair, so you OVDV
can
determine
the
price/strike
for any
maturity,
expiry,
delta, or
strike.

It is the
information
7. FXIP
portal for all
currencies.

This code
8. allows you FFRC
to calculate
 Implied
Forward
rate of the
selected
currency
pair, using
interest rate
futures
prices.

9.

Overview of currency rates in real time, so you can easily monitor the
market changes that impact your business interests.

WCR

10.

What is the other name of Canadian dollar?

Loonie

What is the forecast

for commodity
1. CPF
prices in the next
couple of years?

Allows you to share

investment ideas to
other
BLOOMBERG
2. IDEA
PROFESSIONAL®
service users, so
you can evaluate
the quality of each
 user's trade
recommendations.

An expansionary
monetary policy
implemented by
3. QE
Central banks
during economic
slowdown

Allows you to
display economic
forecasts, so you
can estimate future
trends and compare
forecasts for
regions while
4. ECFC
reviewing the
spreads between
different regions,
which gives you
additional ways to
identify trends in
global economies.

Which Bloomberg
function shows the
5. economic events ECO
schedules for
countries

Track foreign
portfolio
investment flows
into global equity
and fixed income
markets, so you can
6. monitor inflows WFII
and outflows from
individual countries
and regions, and
analyze and
cd trends over
time?

A market that is not

posting new highs
7. Sideways
or lows is known to
be in what trend.
 Run the function
that shows all
currency bid and
8. ALLQ
ask quotes provided
by different
investment banks

This Bloomberg
function can
monitor the
9. headline inflation IFMO
of countries and
their respective
inflation targets.

Provides a
comprehensive
overview of a
security's issuer,
including a
company
10. RELS
description and
fundamentals, debt
obligations,
equities, and related
financial
instruments.

Allows you to
quickly identify the
strongest and
weakest
correlations across
11. CFND
asset classes, so
you can assess the
current market
environment at a
glance.

The term used to

describe the 4 most
12. heavily traded Major Pairs
currency pairs in
the market.

Which function do
13. you run to see the
GDP data of China?
 What is the forex
term used to tell us
the relative
direction of Currency
14. movement between correlations
two currency pairs
over some period of
time?

Get the day's top

15. worldwide news TOP
stories in one place.

Analyze FX price
16. forecasts by FXFC
contributors.

Calculate Implied
Forward rate of the
17. selected currency FFRC
pair, using interest
rate futures prices.

Watch important
news, events, and
18. LIVE
announcements as
they happen.

Search for news,

research, and
19. N
multimedia on
topics of interest.

Which currency is
20. also called the GBP
“Cable”?

1.
The issuer can either be the government or a corporation.

True

Displays the
common
2. WB
bonds in the
world markets.

The charting
3. function for GY
bonds

A type of bond
that can be
redeemed for
a Convertible
4.
predetermined Bond
amount of the
company’s
equity.

The investor
5. who purchases Lender
the bond.
 6.

The total return anticipated on a bond if it is held until the end of its
lifetime.

Yield to Maturity

7.

The government bond is riskier than the corporate bond.

False

The lowest
credit rating
8. False
given by S&P is
CCC.

9.

This code allows you to plot security pricing and related market
variables on a chart, so you can identify trends for a security or set of
tickers within a given time frame.

GP

10.

This allows you to apply transformations to economic indicators and

financial market securities so that you can perform detailed analysis of
the data that is important to you, in the format that is most relevant to
your study.

ECWB

The amount above the stated face or par value when a fixed- Premium
1. income security.

Is a portfolio of bonds that seeks to track the performance of a

2. Bond Indexing
market index, such as the Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate
Bond Index.

Type of treasury bonds issued by states, cities, and counties

3.
to fund capital projects, such as building roads, schools, and Municipal Bonds
hospitals. The interest earned from these bonds are tax
exempt from federal income tax.

The frequency with which a fixed-income security pays Coupon

4.
Frequency
interest.

It is a method taken by a borrower to improve its debt or Credit

5.
Enhancement
creditworthiness to obtain better terms for its debt.
 A government, corporation, municipality, or agency that has
6. Issuer
issued a security (e.g., a bond) in order to raise capital or to
repay other debt.

It is a municipal bond backed by the credit and taxing power of

General Obligation
7.
the issuing jurisdiction rather than the revenue from a given Bonds
project

Allows an investor to sell bonds at a loss to offset taxes on

8. Tax Swap
capital gains and then repurchase the bonds later with similar
but not identical characteristics.

9.
A municipal bond supported by the revenue from a specific Revenue Bond
project, such as a toll bridge, highway or local stadium.

A measurement of the credit risk of an individual fixed-income

security or the issuer of a fixed-income security; generally
10. Creditworthiness
measured by one of the major ratings agencies such as
Standard & Poor's, Moody's Investors Service and Fitch
Ratings Inc.

1. An estimate of the ability of an entity to fulfill their financial commitments. Credit rating
 SRCH
Used to search for a type of bond.
2.

3. The lowest credit rating given by S&P is CCC. FALSE

4. Shows the credit rating for a specific company. CRPR

5. Coupon rate
The interest rate that the issuer agrees to pay each year.

What code provides access to economic calendars of upcoming economic

6. releases, commodity, government, central bank and industry data, and ECO
events?

This code is a comprehensive market surveillance tool that provides

transparency into the international debt markets, so you can easily identify
7. WCDM
trends and anomalies and assess how they may impact investment and risk
strategies.

This allows you to analyze the probabilities of various interest rate

8.
level outcomes as implied by the futures, options, and OIS WIRP
markets, so you can quantify to what extent the markets are
“pricing in” future central bank interest rate changes.

This allows you to monitor prices or yields for active bond futures contracts
9. from around the world, so you can identify trends and opportunities in the WBF
bond futures market.
 What function allows you to display commodity fair value curves,

10.
which are proprietary algorithms developed by BLOOMBERG CFVL
PROFESSIONAL® service to calculate fair value prices for a wide
range of commodities, based on a combination of last prices?

11. The charting function for bonds GY

This allows you to compare different credit default swap market

12. GCDS
instruments on custom charts, so you can analyze relative performance.

A type of bond that is considered as risk-fr

Government
13.
bond

A type of bond that can be redeemed for a predetermined amount Convertible

14.
bond
of the company’s equity.

What function allows you to compare and visualize the historical economic
15. health of different countries and regions based on select key economic ECMX
indicators such as unemployment rate, central bank rate, and GDP?

This provides economic data with organization and context, so you can
16. ECST
easily find the data you need through economic category hierarchies.
 This function lets you search for contributor monitors that provide
17. executable and indicative pricing for a specific market so you can evaluate MRKT
related securities and formulate trading strategies.

This code consolidates the BLOOMBERG PROFESSIONAL® service yield

analysis functions onto a single screen and allows you to price a fixed
18. YAS
income security based on custom inputs, including spreads to a benchmark
issue or benchmark curve.

What function allows you to display economic forecasts, so you

19.
can estimate future trends and compare forecasts for regions while ECFC
reviewing the spreads between different regions, which gives you
additional ways to identify trends in global economies?

What code allows you to track foreign portfolio investment flows into global
equity and fixed income markets, so you can monitor inflows and outflows
20. WFII
from individual countries and regions, and analyze and compare trends over
time?

Rebalancing is
the process of
adjusting your
current
holdings
position
accordingly to Consumer
1.
the sentiment Sector
of the market.
If the
government
suddenly cut
income taxes
for Filipinos
 that earn less
that 250,000
Php annually,
which sector
would most
likely benefit?

2.

This allows you to monitor the progress of reports generated in

functions throughout the BLOOMBERG PROFESSIONAL® service.
Reports are stored for five business days, after which they are
removed from the system.

RPT

This provides
a basic view
of the current
positions,
weights, and
3. allocations PORT HD
across sector,
country, or
any custom
grouping
model

4.

This means blending risk with return; minimizing risk while

maximizing return

Optimization
 This allows
you to
analyze the
fundamental
characteristics
5. PORT CH
of your
portfolio as of
a specific date
or as a time
series trend

This allows
you to track
the intraday
performance
(weights,
returns,
contribution
to return,
performance
6. attribution, PORT IP
and P&L) of
your equity
portfolio on
an absolute
basis or
against a
benchmark
using real-
time data

This lets risk

managers and
portfolio
managers
7. PORT VR
analyze the
risk of loss for
their
portfolios
8.

This is a type of fund that is composed of pure equities.

Equity Fund

9.

Which is not part of the Capital Asset Pricing Model equation

None

This allows
you to
analyze your
portfolio's ex-
ante
10. (predicted) PORT TE
risk by using
one of
Bloomberg's
multi-factor
risk models

MONEY MARKET
Which of the following portfolio has the lowest risk FUND
1.

2.
This application will allow users to compare fundamental values XLTP XPFC
across their portfolios and benchmark indices.
3.
This provides the reports you generate from the Portfolio and REP
Risk Analytics (PORT) function.

4.
The premium an investment portfolio earns above a certain Alpha
benchmark

5.
This is a ratio that is a risk-adjusted measure of return based on TREYNOR
systematic risk

6.
This is a type of fund that is tracking the performance of the Index Fund
index.

7.
This can search all funds in a given country and according to SECF
type of fund

8. Balanced Fund
This is a type of fund that is considered mixed asset allocation

9.
Which is the hotkey for Portfolio function in the Bloomberg F12
keyboard
10.
This allows you to analyze the fundamental characteristics of PORT CH
your portfolio as of a specific date or as a time series trend

Which of the following portfolio is best suited for risk averse HIGH DIVIDEND
11.
YIELD FUND
investor

12.
Which of the following portfolio is best suited for an aggressive HEDGE FUND
investor

This is a tool to construct, hedge, and re-balance portfolios with

13.
tailored risk, return, and exposure characteristics, so you can PORT OP
see how the portfolio analytics change after these trade ideas
are incorporated.

14. Diversification
This means not putting all eggs in one basket

This allows you to stress-test your portfolio to determine impact

15.
and which scenarios are best or worst for your portfolio, then PORT SA
drill down into your holdings to see depictions of how holdings
perform within a given scenario.