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What data is on Bloomberg Terminal?
The Bloomberg Terminal delivers unparalleled coverage of markets and securities with information across asset classes — from fixed income to equities, to foreign exchange, commodities and derivatives — integrated in one place and delivered in real time to your desktop or mobile device.
What is Bloomberg Terminal built on?
The terminal implements a client-server architecture with the server running on a multiprocessor Unix platform. The client, used by end users to interact with the system, is a Windows application that typically connects directly through a router provided by Bloomberg and installed on-site.
What technology does Bloomberg use?
Every Bloomberg dataset come with a screen on how to access it, there are virtually no adhoc data mining facilities , unless its new in the past few years. The surprise is that the majority of this is still done in fortran77, although there is a growing use of C and C++.
How many countries is Bloomberg in?
The agency was established in 1990 with a team of six people. Winkler was first editor-in-chief. In 2010, Bloomberg News included more than 2,300 editors and reporters in 72 countries and 146 news bureaus worldwide.
Where are Bloomberg servers?
Three Hot Sites. The older facility in Manhattan, the new one in Orangetown, and another one elsewhere in the New York metro are the three primary Bloomberg data centers. All three are “hot,” which means workloads can be quickly shifted from site to site as needed.
Where does Bloomberg get its data from?
As with other financial information aggregators such as Thomson-Reuters and FactSet, Bloomberg operates a number of data centers around the world where they receive data feeds from exchanges as well as from securities information processors.
How does Bloomberg Bloomberg terminals work?
Bloomberg picks up on this feed, converts the data to their format and sends it along to your terminal. A similar, but not identical process is followed for all listed, exchange traded equities, futures and options.
Is Bloomberg Terminal on the top priority for acquisition?
Bloomberg (and other agencies) will be on the top priority for acquisition, even if it costs money. Where does Bloomberg Terminal source its data from?
What is the Bloomberg terminal swap manager tool?
The Bloomberg Terminal has a SWAP manager tool that is a highly customizable swap pricing utility. It allows users to input the parameters of a swap agreement and come up with an estimate for the value of that swap, at any given date in time.