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Functions

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Training & navigation

BMC  Get Bloomberg certified and learn more about the financial markets.

BHL  Visit the Bloomberg Help and Learning Center.

BPS  Locate topic-specific cheatsheets and videos.

BU  Search for, enroll in and launch a wide variety of webinars and training resources.

 

Charting & graphs

GP  Chart securities and technical studies on the Bloomberg Terminal.

HS  Visualize and compare the performance of two securities.

GC  Chart yield curves and see how interest rates move over time.

GF  Visual analysis of a company’s fundamentals.

ECWB  Allows you to standardize and manipulate economic data. 

 

Commodities

BGAS  See pricing for the North American natural gas spot market.

BOIL  Get a full picture of global oil & refined products spot pricing.

CPF  Analyze expert forecasts for future commodity prices.

FDM  Access comprehensive fundamental commodities data.

GLCO  Monitor the price movement and performance of global commodities.

NGAS  Analyze natural gas statistics for the U.S., Canada and Mexico.

WETR  Analyze current, historical and forecasted weather trends.

 

Company analysis

DES  Access consolidated financial data and fundamental background information.

BI  Access industry analyses from Bloomberg Intelligence.

BIP  Search for primers on companies, industries or topics.

BICO  See a company primer to quickly educate yourself on a company.

QUIC  Leverage QuickTakes to put important news events in context.

ANR  See analyst recommendations and price targets for an equity.

 

Currencies

FXFC  Analyze currency price forecasts by contributors.

FXCA  Conversion calculation.

FXC  Matrix of currency rates.

WCRS  Visually rank and compare current and historical currency rates.

WIRA  Track international reserve assets and related growth rates.

GMM  Monitor the most significant moves in the global financial markets.

 

Derivatives

OMON  See real-time pricing and market data for call and put options.

OVME  Price and back-test equity derivative products and strategies.

OVML  Structure and price multi-leg FX options for various strategies.

 

Economics

FED  Monitor the activities of the U.S. Federal Reserve bank.

CENB  Access portals to other international central bank resources.

ECO  See economic calendars for upcoming industry and central bank releases.

ECST  Monitor economic data from multiple sources.

ECFC  See economic forecasts and compare regional forecasts.

 

Equities

EQS  Screen for companies to validate your trade ideas.

FA  Find a company’s financial statements and fundamental data.

IPO  Monitor equity offerings to discern competitor financing strategy.

CAST  See a debtor’s organization and capital structure.

CACS  See a calendar of corporate actions and events for a security.

WEI  Get comprehensive market surveillance for global equities markets.

RV  Compare a stock to its peers across various metrics.

EQRV  Evaluate whether a company is fairly valued relative to peers.

CM  Monitor the key events influencing a company’s stock price.

 

Excel tools

XLTP  Access a library of Excel templates for custom data analysis.

DAPI  Learn about retrieving data into Excel using Bloomberg API formulas.

FLDS  Locate specific Excel fields for your formulas.

 

Fixed income

SRCH  Search fixed income securities for trends and trade ideas.

DDIS  See the maturity distribution of debt for a selected issuer.

YAS  Price fixed income securities and calculate yields in one place.

BTMM  Assess a country’s current interest rate environment.

ALLQ  See dealer-contributed prices in real time for corporate bonds.

DEBT  Determine the holders who are most exposed to a country’s debt.

WB  Monitor sovereign bond yields, spreads and performance.

CRPR  Assess the creditworthiness of an issuer or fixed income security.

CRVF  Search for curves that are relevant to your fixed income market analysis.

SRSK  Get transparent, quantitative estimates of the 1-year default probability of a country’s sovereign debt and 5-year CDS spread.

 

Mergers & acquisitions

BUYP  View M&A buyer profiles to peg possible acquirers for your assets.

MA  Track and analyze M&A and arbitrage spread data in real time.

MARB  Monitor real-time merger and acquisition arbitrage spread data.

MRGC  Evaluate hypothetical merger scenarios.

PE  Access functions for PE fundraising, screening and market monitoring.

 

News

TOP  Get the day’s top worldwide news stories in one place.

TWTR  Search for Twitter news on Bloomberg.

CN  See top news on a specific company.

FIRS  Read summarized news stories to track market-moving news.

SALT  Set up email alerts for news on the companies you follow.

BRIE  Read Bloomberg newsletters on markets, economics and industries.

 

Portfolio management

PRTU  Create, manage, and share your portfolios for analysis in PORT.

PORT  Analyze portfolio performance, scenario analysis and exposure.

EQBT  Back-test fundamental investment strategies.

UNCL  Create custom classifications to aggregate your portfolio or benchmark.

BBU  Upload your portfolios, benchmarks, and custom data for analysis in PORT.

CDE  Create custom fields to use your unique data across the Bloomberg Terminal.

 

Additional resources

MSG  Send and manage email communications through your Bloomberg.net email account.

MRUL  Manage message rules, including forwarding emails to your Bloomberg.net email to your personal email account (Gmail, Yahoo, etc.).

JOBS  Search for jobs at companies in the finance industry.

PEOP  Proprietary people database where you can filter for alumni.

MVP  Most-viewed people on Bloomberg over the last day, week or month.

RICH  View the world’s highest-net-worth individuals.