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FINANCIAL WELLNESS & MARKETS LAB - MLG 322
The Financial Wellness & Markets Lab, and the Center for Financial Wellness is equipped with a stock ticker showing real time financial data, a world clock, and several Bloomberg Terminals. Bloomberg is the world’s leading platform for global business and finance news, data, analytical tools and research.
This Bloomberg Finance Lab integrates experiential learning into our curriculum:
- Bridges the gap between academia and practice with hands-on learning
- Brings theory to life with live market data. Can simulate the day-day work of investment professionals.
- Enhances research with more data/ideas
- Can be integrated into the study of accounting, finance, economics, management marketing, real estate or supply chain
Provides students an edge with recruitment:
- Bolsters student resumes with Bloomberg experience or perhaps in the future a Bloomberg Certification
- Enhances student performance and knowledge base in internships
Financial Wellness & Markets Lab Schedule
Location: MLG 322
OPEN LAB TIMES WITH A LAB ASSISTANT
*Drop-In Hours
Monday 12:30-1:30 pm (Phu Quoc Huynh),
Tuesday 12:30-1:30 pm (Chitwan Kaur),
Wednesday 3:30-4:30 pm (Phu Quoc Huynh),
Thursday 1:30-2:30 pm (Chitwan Kaur)
Friday 12:30-1:30 pm (Phu Quoc Huynh)
- Open to All students-all majors welcome!
- No prior experience necessary, get help logging in, research, and explore
- Earn your online Bloomberg Certificate-get the edge you need on your resume!
- Master the Bloomberg Terminal and understand how the market functions before graduation
Lab Also Open: Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday 9-5pm. NOTE: Tuesdays-RESERVED FOR TFIN 490 1:30-3:30 pm
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Upcoming Lab Closures-Autumn Quarter 2024
Friday Nov. 1st-CLOSED
Friday Nov. 8th-CLOSED
Wed. Nov. 13th-CLOSED 12:30-1:30pm
Monday Nov. 18th-CLOSED 12:30-1:30pm
Monitor and manage real-time financial data
Earn a future Bloomberg Terminal Certification
Perform industry analyses and build financial modeling
Learn to analyze, build, and manage investments portfolios.
How this Helps in the Classroom:
- Demonstrate theories with live market data
- Populate spreadsheets with live data
- Teach corporate finance classes with live data
- Invite professionals for industry visits
- Show theoretical calculators to teach financial math with live market data
- Conduct trading games
- Help students write equity research reports
- Student can create theoretical managed investment funds
Access Instructions for Students:
Make sure your Husky card is activated to allow you the access to MLG 322. Then, go to https://www.tacoma.uw.edu/uuf/25live, then click into 25Live System using your UW netID and password, and finally on the Search Locations box enter MLG 322. During unreserved hours of the lab, you can use your Husky card to tab on the card reader by the MLG 322 glass door to access the lab and use one of the four Bloomberg terminals. You need to log in one of the desktop computers at the back of the lab just as how you log in a library computer. Once you log in the computer, click the Bloomberg icon (either on desktop or in the taskbar) to launch Bloomberg. If you don’t have a Bloomberg account, you need to register one using an email address. You have to wait if all the Bloomberg terminals are occupied.
