Analyzing Stock Darlings of Social Media
Join Bloomberg for Education to learn about the Bloomberg tools that allow you to monitor trending stocks in social media platforms without reading thousands of tweets yourself. Then use this data to extract insight and analyze short interest, valuation, and key financial metrics.
In this presentation, we will cover how to:
- Use Bloomberg news tools to spot trending stocks and topics in social media
- See who leads the conversation: social media vs. news organizations
- Spot stocks often mentioned by social media or news
- Review the difference between news themes and headline news
- Chart news over time on a single security to understand what moves a company
- Explore news themes on companies, commodities, and key topics
- Examine the artificial intelligence behind the headlines
The presentation will be recorded. If you cannot attend but are interested in the content, you may register and watch the link on-demand anytime afterwards.
Speakers
Alex Wisch
Market Specialist
Bloomberg News
Alex Wisch is Market Specialist for Bloomberg's news products in New York. He is a former equity research analyst who covered the European telecoms and media industry for 15 years. He was first at S&P Capital IQ and later part of Bloomberg Intelligence, Bloomberg's research arm, in London. Early in his career he was a financial journalist, editor and markets commentator, both in Chile and the UK. Alex holds an MBA from London's City University (former Cass Business School) and a BA in Journalism from Universidad de Santiago de Chile. He speaks English, Spanish, German, French and Hebrew. In his free time he likes to do handstands in unusual world locations, from the Eiffel Tower to The White House.
Joy Lowenwirth
Americas Education Application Specialist
Bloomberg
Joy Lowenwirth earned her Masters degree in Teaching from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the U.S. and began her education career as a secondary school English teacher. Interested in curriculum development and training teachers, she moved behind the scenes to work as the National Content Director for School-Based Programs at education company The Princeton Review designing, developing, and overseeing the creation of curricula, online courses, textbooks, assessments, and trainer trainings. She also worked at non-profit organization Teach For America as Managing Director of Professional Development, shaping and executing strategies to improve teacher effectiveness program-wide. Her education experience brought her to Bloomberg's education venture. She headed up the content team and psychometrics for the Bloomberg Aptitude Test. And when the team shifted from the test to a course, she led content creation for the e-learning course Bloomberg Market Concepts, a course introducing university students to finance via the lens of the Bloomberg Terminal.