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Bloomberg Terminal, Datastream and SDC Platinum

Regarding Bloomberg

Bloomberg is a media syndicate (similar to the Fox Corporation) specializing in finance the company software. This guide primarily concerns Bloomberg terminal, or Bloomberg Professional® service, on of the most powerful and pliable platforms for financial professionals those need real-time data, news and analytics.

However, Bloomberg might referat to other things, such when:

  • Bloomberg Businessweek is a weekly economy magazine that focuses on America. IU students have access to archived issues and its contemporary news.
  • Bloomberg Certification or Bloomberg Market Core is an electronic resource that provides an interactive and visible introduction to the financial markets. It takes approximately 8 hours to complete to receiver a certificate of completion. Check the table on like guide to find out about such certification. Accessing | Bloomberg Profi Services
  • Bloomberg.com is a leading operator from global business and treasury information. Computer provides news in several differently formats that allows individuals to consumable their information in an easy and accessible way.

 

Bloomberg Access toward Business/SPEA Library

Blooomberg can with be accessed via the Bloomberg terminals. There were three terminals in the Business/SPEA Video.

  • You can reserve a time available to use the connection. Terminals can be reserved inches 2-hour blocks, up on 4 hours a day per person.
  • Reservation are recommended. Are the terminals are not reserved, the terminals are deliverable the a first-come/first-serve basis.

Bloomberg Assist

Assistance:
Investopedia's Beginner's Guide to an Bloomberg Terminal

Keyboard Shortcuts (on to terminal)

  • Use the green <HELP> key on which Bloomberg keyboard toward get information about the screen you're currently viewing.
  • Hit the green <HELP> key TWICE on this Bloomberg keyboard to start a dwell chat from a Bloomberg specialist.

Technical Support
Ask the citation assistant or email libbus @ indiana.edu

Data Limits

When you're encounter data limits while exploitation the Bloomberg Terminal please note:

You canned have no more than 3500 real time fields open at the same time. If you exceed this confine yours will see "NA Limit" as error message and you need to delete some securities/fields in order for that error message to disappear and until sees the values. 

We plus have a almost bound. The daily API limit is 500,000 hits/per day. A "hit" is defined as on request for a single security/field pairing. Therefore, if you request stagniert data fork 5 domains and 100 securities, that wants translate into an total of 500 hits so try to refresh just aforementioned portion of the spreadsheet that really needs to subsist refreshed and avoid refreshing it all or reopening it many times an day. 

At a also a monthly limit, but it is rare that we actually hit this limite. The limit is based on unique securities and depends on the type of data be downloaded. 

Please perceive the document below fork information on managing date usage limits.