Bloomberg Functions and Uses

What is a Bloomberg Terminal?

Is a computer system that allows investors to access the bloomberg data service, which provides real time global financial data, news feeds, and???messages. Investors can also use the BBG Terminal's trading system to facilitate the placement of financial transactions, such as stock and options trades. Bloomberg charges an annual subscription fee, with the price for the proprietary ranging from $20,000 to $24,000 per user per year

Developed by businessman Michael Bloomberg, a Bloomberg terminal is a popular hardware and software system that allows investors access to real-time market data, investing analytics, and proprietary trading platforms.

Bloomberg's biggest competitor is Thomson Reuters—which offers Eikon, a set of software products designed to help investors analyze and trade the financial markets. Source: Investopedia

Some of Bloomberg's segments are Bloomberg TV, Bloomberg News, etc.

The above mentioned platform is disseminated across Banks and other financial institutions as they are served by bloomberg providing for their Research, Interest Rates, Dividends, Publishing news, Earnings Calendar, Corporate Actions events, As well as booking trades.

CN (Company News) - Filtered view of the News (N) function for a loaded security.?

GIP - Intraday Price Graph – up to 240 days - Visual time series analysis tool used to evaluate a security's intraday price trends for a period of up to 240 days.

DVD - Dividends, Stock splits - Displays the history of a company's distributions. History includes cash dividends and other distributions, such as stock splits.

DES - Corporate Description - Consolidated financial information for a specific financial instrument, such as a bond, loan, swap, index, futures contract, stock, warrant, option, fund, money market program, currency, or preferred security.

EE - Earnings Estimates - Provides a snapshot of aggregated broker earnings projections, surprise earnings data, and a summary of earnings history.

ANR - Analyst Recommendations -Shows analysts recommendations for a selected equity and allows for monitoring of changes in opinion and analyzing the quality of analyst predictions.

CACS - Corporate Action Calendar - Displays a calendar of corporate and municipal actions for a single security, including events such as stock buybacks, capital changes, and distributions.

AQR - Average Quote Recap - Displays the Top Trades in the Price and Volume Dashboard (VWAP) function.

GP - Historical Graphs/Table - GP and its related charts (GPC, GPO, GPF, GPL) and study functions (RSI, MACD, BOLL) are visual time series analysis tools used to put financial data into context.

RELS - Related Securities - Provides a comprehensive overview of a security's issuer, including company description and fundamentals, debt obligations, equities, and related financial instruments.

Source: https://corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/data/bloomberg/bloomberg-functions-shortcuts-list/

https://data.bloomberglp.com/professional/sites/10/Getting-Started-Guide-for-Students-English.pdf

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Author: Carlos Payumo Garcia

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