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Bloomberg Professional Terminal: Home

This guide helps you understand how to navigate Bloomberg.

Bloomberg Professional provides current and recent historical financial data on individual equities, stock market indices, fixed-income securities, currencies, commodities, futures, and foreign exchange for both international and domestic markets.

7​ Bloomberg kiosks are accessible in HQ, while 15 of the Bloomberg Professional licenses continue to be temporarily assigned to designated users across departments. The designated users can update files for you and do research on your behalf. Download Limits: Data extracted through the Excel API is subject to monthly download limits. Please be judicious in downloading data to avoid hitting the limits for yourself and all other users. More information

Subsets of Bloomberg data are available via data license and accessible to all staff from their desktops:
Bloomberg Data License (searchable in EcOS and EDI)
Bloomberg Government Bonds Data License
Bloomberg High Frequency Data

Bloomberg.com is available for news.

More information about the IMF's Bloomberg access is posted on http://econfindata.

Accessing Bloomberg Professional

You must create your own Bloomberg login:

  1. To access Bloomberg sign on to the computer with your IMF username and password
  2. Click on the Bloomberg icon
  3. Press the green Enter (GO) key
  4. Click the "Create New Login" link near the bottom of the page
  5. Follow the instructions to create your own login

Bloomberg Data Feeds

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Joanie Cornwell
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