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ECONOMICS A Bloomberg Professional Service Offering

CROSS-BORDER FLOWS
TRACK & ANALYZE A COUNTRY’S CROSS-BORDER TRANSACTIONS
WITH BLOOMBERG’S SUITE OF ECONOMIC SOLUTIONS
Examining trends in country-to-country economic and financial flows can help investors to get direction on where to allocate
their portfolio’s assets – both in terms of equity and bond securities.
Bloomberg offers a suite of economic functions to help investors track and analyze cross border flows:

FLOW OF FUND PORTFOLIO

Flow of Fund Portfolio, available via FOFP <GO>, allows users
to see a single country’s greatest exposure and highlights the
top ranked countries from which these investments came by
tracking cross-border portfolio equity and bond holdings and
investment flows from one country to another.
You can easily see where cross-border investment flows
have gone and where liquidations may be most pronounced
in episodes of major portfolio retrenchment.

FOFP <GO> – Shows

the countries in which the
European Union is investing
in most heavily. Click on
any country to see portfolio
flows over time.
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CROSS-BORDER MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS

For investors interested in a country’s foreign direct investment activity, the Cross Border Mergers and Acquisitions product,
available via FLMA <GO>, empowers users to make educated investment decisions based on cross-border M&A activity.

FLMA <GO> – Is powered

by Bloomberg proprietary,
timely and aggregated
mergers and acquisitions
data that allows users to
better visualize cross-border
mergers and acquisitions
and track the volume of
foreign direct investment
flows from one country
to another.
The FLMA dashboard
allows users to investigate
the cross-border activities
of a single country. This can
be broken down by position
and asset class.

TRADE FLOW
ECTR <GO>, a Trade Flow tool, provides an interactive trade flow map that allows you to see the export and import values
between a selected country and its global trading partners. The data is provided by the International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Direction of Trade Statistics, which has its own hierarchical method of grouping countries and regions.
ECTR <GO> allows users to:
- Quickly backdate data to determine if trade between - See which countries maintain strong ties as indicated by the
countries has increased or decreased size of the trade flows, as well as further your analysis on the
- Determine if one country’s trade imbalance is expanding degree to which international sanctions and regulations have
or contracting. impacted countries.
- Get a strong indication of how different exchange
rates will be affected.

Use the interactive

Trade Flow map to track
international trading partners
for a given a country.
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FOREIGN PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT

Bloomberg’s Foreign Portfolio Investment, available via WFII <GO>, is a powerful dashboard which allows users to track
foreign portfolio investment into given domestic equity and fixed income markets.
This provides investors the ability to monitor inflows and outflows from individual countries and regions and analyze and
compare trends over time. Users can analyze the data in different currencies in order to monitor the impact of portfolio
flows on local currency.

In this look at WFII <GO>,

users can see how much
foreign investors are
putting into companies
in a given country.
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