Business

Market Maker

Advantages: Free, brilliant analysis, analysts, information quality and quantity, 24/7 information source
Disadvantages: Few, apart from, some of the analysts' dress sense and the "spread betting" feature

...case you don’t know who Bloomberg are, Bloomberg is an international media consortium specializing in all things financial or business related. I shall be looking at their television channel in the UK. For Sky Digital viewers it’s channel 504 on your digibox. As far as I know, it's free... At first sight, Bloomberg would seem to be an America focused TV channel, with American priorities and American values, that it far from the truth, ...
...a little peek at what Bloomberg has to offer. Don’t let the unnecessary sound effects and the odd eccentrically dressed presenter put you off! ++ ----- Market Segmentation ----- ++ One thing that strikes you straight away is the screen, it is split into 4 parts, Imagine the top left section of the screen, starting there, take up ¾ of the screen, that is where you view the television show. Then the rest of the northeast corner is where there ...

Modena 10.03.2001 · Read full review
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Review of Bloomberg TV

Useless Customer Service

Advantages: Most widely available service
Disadvantages: Not intertested in the customer

So you decide that you want to 'Go Digital' and you decide that Sky Digital is the one for you. Beware my friends. They are quick to tak your money and get you to sign extremely restrictive contracts. But when it comes to actually installing the required kit, you are likely to be disappointed. At the first time of asking, the engineer arrived without a working receiver. The excuse was that he had been sent out with a 'duff' digibox. On calling Sky, ...
...would get a box. Having waited in all day initially, with no indication of when the engineer would arrive, I was disgusted. I cancelled the contract. Three weeks later, having decided to give them a second chance, I was informed that my contract was still valid. (Although I was not too bothered with this as I was going ahead it them, I still thought this was off as I had told them to cancel it.) On the day of installation I waited, and waited, ...

theforce 16.07.2000 · Read full review
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Review of theforce - Sky Digital

Blombarded!

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More like a moving internet page than a conventional TV channel. Broadcast 24 hours a day, the screen is divided into segments: two strips at the bottom of the screen (about the size of internet banners on a web page); a block on the right side of the screen, taking up about one third of the remaining space; and a TV screen with a talking head squeezed into the remaining square. Depending on the time of day, you are bombarded with share prices from ...

travel-expert 10.07.2000 · Read full review
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Review of Bloomberg TV