![]() ![]() When I first got on it I couldn't believe all the information that was available. I'll echo this, huge resource when your dealing with a bunch of different securities in international markets, looking for financial info, etc. You can usually get a free trial for a month. Unless you are super wealthy it is obviously not worth it as a retail investor. When you work at a large firm the company gets a discount (depending on # of terminals and contract term. The platform also isn't very user friendly. If there is one thing that pisses me off about BB is that the 3rd party vendors add-ins are way overpriced. Bloomberg chat also makes it inconvenient to switch to Capital IQ or Reuters. Bloomberg has also been trying to build functions for VC/PE albeit they're still quite useless. Pay for using the terminal: the cost is 2000 per month or 1600 per month if two or more terminals are used. I find Capital IQ better for IB (M&A) but for asset management/HFs/ trading Bloomberg is the best (data aggregator of financial prices/econ #s, modeling, valuation tools, statistical analysis). Bloomberg has to pay each exchange for data (you have to pay premium for real-time quotes) as well as to run operations for a huge platform that is continually growing. ![]()
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