Bloomberg Terminal
The Bloomberg Terminal (Bloomberg Professional Service) is the flagship product of Bloomberg LP, providing financial professionals with real-time market data, news, analytics, trading capabilities, and secure messaging through a unified workstation. The Terminal connects over 325,000 subscribers globally and is the standard infrastructure for financial markets professionals. Developers can access Terminal data programmatically via the Bloomberg Open API (BLPAPI).
APIs
Bloomberg Open API (BLPAPI)
The Bloomberg Open API (BLPAPI) enables programmatic access to Bloomberg Terminal data from applications running on the same machine or connecting via Bloomberg's network. Provi...
Bloomberg Excel Add-in
Extends Bloomberg Terminal functionality into Microsoft Excel with BDP, BDH, BDS, and BQL formula functions for retrieving real-time, historical, and reference data directly in ...
Bloomberg IB (Instant Bloomberg)
Secure messaging platform built into the Bloomberg Terminal enabling real-time communication between financial professionals globally, with compliance archiving and monitoring c...
Bloomberg EMSX
Electronic trading and order management system integrated in the Bloomberg Terminal for routing orders to brokers across equities, fixed income, FX, and derivatives with FIX con...
Features
Streaming real-time prices and quotes across global markets.
Security attributes, identifiers, corporate actions, and fundamentals.
End-of-day and intraday historical data for all asset classes.
Bond pricing, yield calculations, risk analytics, and scenario analysis.
Equity valuation, relative value, and quantitative screening tools.
Bloomberg News, analyst research, and Bloomberg Intelligence.
Compliant secure messaging for the Bloomberg professional network.
EMSX for order routing and execution across asset classes.
BDP, BDH, BDS formulas for Excel integration.
Mobile and remote access to Terminal capabilities.
Use Cases
Track real-time price movements and market events across global markets.
Analyze bonds using Bloomberg's fixed income analytics functions.
Screen, analyze, and value equities using Terminal data and functions.
Monitor FX rates and execute currency trades through EMSX.
Manage and analyze investment portfolios with Bloomberg data.
Build quantitative models and strategies using BLPAPI data access.