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05a Bloombergprices
05a Bloombergprices
Press Install
Click OK
Click on Cell A1
Click Bloomberg
Click Real-Time/Historical
Type Apple
Type SP
Click Next
Select Last
Click Add
Click Next
Click Next
Click Finish
Select Columns A to E
Press Home
Press Copy
Click on Cell A1
Challenge
Select Sheet2 and download share price data on another company of your choice
If we try to create a line graph comparing Apple and S&P500 it will not be very clear
Click on Cell A1
Apple starts off at a much lower level than S&P Need to create an index for both starting at 1,000
Type AppleIndex in E1
Type SPIndex in F1
We want to compare all prices to the first price so in cell E2 type =B2/$B$2*1000
Select from cell E3 to the bottom of dataset and press Ctrl + v to paste formulas
Click OK
Have created price indices starting at 1,000 for both Apple and S&P500
Apple has increased from 1,000 to 92,196.79 S&P has increased from 1,000 to 1,629.38
Challenge
Calculate an index of the share price data you downloaded for another company Begin the index at 1,000 Produce a basic line graph