October 2017
Beginner
315 pages
8h 1m
English
Content preview from Unlocking Financial Data
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Chapter 4. IHS Markit: Big Corporate Data
This chapter covers how to retrieve financial information from IHS Markit, one of the best sources for financial data covering the universe of corporate bonds, loans, and a range of different products. Unlike Bloomberg, Markit offers its clients access to retrieve pricing and reference data on almost the entire spectrum of tradable bonds and loans, without restrictions. Working with very large sets of financial data opens the door to different types of useful analysis, such as looking for trends in daily price changes for thousands of syndicated loans based on spread, rating, or other characteristics. Many banks, asset managers, and hedge funds already subscribe to Markit data; however, most of the data is used to support internal systems and rarely makes its way to the hands of analysts.
Chapter 8 discusses the different types of analysis on large datasets, whereas this chapter focuses on the different types of data available, how to retrieve the data, and techniques for storing the data with Excel and Microsoft Access based on the path you are following.
This chapter does not cover all of the products IHS Markit offers. To learn more about Markit and its complete range of products, visit https://www.markit.com. Most of the field descriptions used in this chapter are from Markit’s documentation.
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Corporate loans (also referred to as bank loans, leveraged loans, or syndicated loans), are loans issued by corporations that ...
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