Bloomberg is a global financial database, widely used in the professional and academic community.

It can be used to find a vast range of real-time market data, and also offers analytical tools and aggregated financial news.

Bloomberg has data on more than 5 million bonds, equities, commodities, currencies and funds, and provides information on all listed companies. It also has access to a variety of ESG data.

Bloomberg can be accessed on one dedicated terminal within the Marshall Library. Remote access is not available.

Use of the Marshall Library's Bloomberg terminal is restricted to current students and staff of the Economics Faculty.

Bloomberg is licensed to the Marshal Library under an academic subscription and may be used only for non-commercial purposes. 

Please use the Marshall Library Bloomberg Booking Form to book a session on the library terminal. Scroll to the bottom of the form to see a calendar indicating existing bookings.

You can only use the terminal during Marshall Library Opening Hours – please don’t attempt to book outside these times. You will receive an email from library staff when your booking has been confirmed. 

On arrival for your session, please report to the issue desk. Each time you use the terminal, library staff will need to log in to provide you with access.

First-time users will also need to set up a personal Bloomberg account with a username and password.

Please ensure that you log out at the end of your session and notify library staff that you have finished.

The Bloomberg terminal is easily identified by its unusual keyboard, designed to provide quick access to information. There is a headphone jack located at the back of the keyboard for listening to audio. 

Click the link below for Bloomberg's detailed user guide:

Getting Started on the Bloomberg Terminal (User Guide)

For Bloomberg cheat sheets and tips: type BU <GO> on the terminal.

For contextual help on any specific page: press HELP (or  F1) once.

To contact the Bloomberg helpdesk: press HELP (or F1) twice. An email form will appear. Sending an email query will create a reference number for all correspondence on the same topic. You should receive a reply within 24 hours. CC your email address to receive their response via email. 

A range of introductory video guides are available on Youtube, including those posted on this page.

The Marshall Library offers a one-hour introductory lecture on using the Bloomberg terminal in Lent term.

Bloomberg has an Office API which means you can download and manipulate data using Excel. Type XLTP <GO> to access a library of Excel templates.

Please think carefully before downloading data to Excel to avoid hitting the data download limit.

The Bloomberg terminal has a monthly data download limit which is remotely enforced by Bloomberg. When the terminal has reached its limit users will see the #N/A LIMIT error message in Excel.

When this limit is reached no further data can be downloaded by any user on the terminal for the rest of the month and the limit will only reset on the first day of the following month. No information whatsoever is provided by Bloomberg to indicate how close the terminal is to reaching its monthly limit.

Please be considerate of other users and download only data that you really need.  Avoid bulk data downloads and use other data sources wherever possible, including LSEG Workspace.