Bloomberg Terminal Guide

Bloomberg provides real-time and historical pricing, indicative and fundamental data, charts and graphs on various topics, customized analytic, company and industry news, economic data, statistics, and estimates.

Certification

You will need: a Bloomberg account and headphones.

**IMPORTANT** Plug your headphones into the computer before launching Bloomberg, or you may experience sound problems.

 

Bloomberg Essentials

To get to the Bloomberg Essentials training program, Type BESS < GO>.

The Bloomberg Essentials program consists of 4 Core courses and 4 Market sector courses.

To complete certification, you must watch videos and pass an exam for each of the Core Courses, and 1 Market sector course. Each video is between 15-30 minutes long.

  • You must get at least a 75% on each exam.
  • If you score lower than 75%, you can only retake each exam once.
  • You may watch the videos as many times as you would like, and without taking the exams.
  • There are no time limits for the tests.
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