5 ms·

Why do you say this? (FWIW, I find many of lordnacho's HN contributions to be decent and in many cases insightful).

by sah2ed 10y ago

kgwgk 10y ago
There are lots of things on bloomblerg that cannot be found at google or yahoo... To name only a few: intraday market data, company filings, detailed/processed financial information (product/geographic segmentation, non-gaap metrics), transcripts of earnings calls, sell-side estimates, corporate actions (M&A, IPOs/secondary offerings), information about management, customers, suppliers, institutional shareholders...
- lordnacho 10y ago
  Bloomberg only keeps its intraday data for 50 days. Google does have intraday data, but you need to know how to get it via the right http call. https://www.google.co.uk/finance?q=NYSE%3AXOM&ei=X2uzWInZGYadUeC-ltgO https://www.google.co.uk/finance?q=NYSE%3AXOM&ei=X2uzWInZGYa... There's the board of Exxon Mobil, along with links to analyst estimates, company filings, related firms, calendar of their calls, transcripts, list of institutional shareholders, and so on. Most of the things you mention are certainly easier to find on a terminal, but you can get them for free elsewhere. Also don't forget many things on Bloomberg require you to pay even more. Short interest data on European stocks for instance.
  - kgwgk 10y ago
    I don't know how to get the intraday data from Google, do you also get 50 days, quotes, trades, volumes traded...? There is some useful info in the reuters.com page linked from google. But still there are so many things that are not there. There is only very basic financial info, and I don't think you get it in google finance within minutes of it being published. Of course you could read the press release for free. And read every filing from the company yourself, and every filing from any related company, and from any asset manager who might have a relevant disclosure. And then you you can process all that data to put it in a comparable format. All for free!
  - kgwgk 10y ago
    > Bloomberg only keeps its intraday data for 50 days Just for the record, I'm looking at intraday data from a few years ago right now so that cannot be right.

Why do you say this? (FWIW, I find many of lordnacho's HN contributions to be decent and in many cases insightful).

by sah2ed 10y ago

Why do you say this? (FWIW, I find many of lordnacho's HN contributions to be decent and in many cases insightful).

kgwgk 10y ago

There are lots of things on bloomblerg that cannot be found at google or yahoo... To name only a few: intraday market data, company filings, detailed/processed financial information (product/geographic segmentation, non-gaap metrics), transcripts of earnings calls, sell-side estimates, corporate actions (M&A, IPOs/secondary offerings), information about management, customers, suppliers, institutional shareholders...

lordnacho 10y ago
Bloomberg only keeps its intraday data for 50 days. Google does have intraday data, but you need to know how to get it via the right http call. https://www.google.co.uk/finance?q=NYSE%3AXOM&ei=X2uzWInZGYadUeC-ltgO https://www.google.co.uk/finance?q=NYSE%3AXOM&ei=X2uzWInZGYa... There's the board of Exxon Mobil, along with links to analyst estimates, company filings, related firms, calendar of their calls, transcripts, list of institutional shareholders, and so on. Most of the things you mention are certainly easier to find on a terminal, but you can get them for free elsewhere. Also don't forget many things on Bloomberg require you to pay even more. Short interest data on European stocks for instance.
- kgwgk 10y ago
  I don't know how to get the intraday data from Google, do you also get 50 days, quotes, trades, volumes traded...? There is some useful info in the reuters.com page linked from google. But still there are so many things that are not there. There is only very basic financial info, and I don't think you get it in google finance within minutes of it being published. Of course you could read the press release for free. And read every filing from the company yourself, and every filing from any related company, and from any asset manager who might have a relevant disclosure. And then you you can process all that data to put it in a comparable format. All for free!
- kgwgk 10y ago
  > Bloomberg only keeps its intraday data for 50 days Just for the record, I'm looking at intraday data from a few years ago right now so that cannot be right.