Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News is a leading global provider of financial news, data, and analysis, delivering breaking news and insights on markets, economics, politics, and business. Bloomberg provides APIs through the Bloomberg Professional Services platform including BLPAPI, Server API, Data License, and market data services.
APIs
Bloomberg Market Data API
Provides access to real-time and historical market data including stocks, bonds, commodities, and currencies through the Bloomberg Terminal and enterprise data feeds.
Bloomberg News API
Access to Bloomberg's breaking news, articles, and multimedia content covering global markets and business through the Bloomberg Professional platform.
Bloomberg Server API (SAPI)
Lightweight server-side API that delivers real-time market, historical, and key reference data as well as calculation engine capabilities for proprietary and third-party applica...
Bloomberg Data License API
Provides programmatic access to Data License content via REST API, SFTP, or cloud providers, with available content including reference, pricing, regulatory, and alternative dat...
Bloomberg BLPAPI
Core Bloomberg API providing a unified programming interface for Desktop API, Server API, B-PIPE, and Platform products. Available as SDKs for C++, C# (.NET), Java, and Python.
Features
Access streaming real-time market data for equities, fixed income, commodities, and currencies.
Query historical pricing, volume, and fundamental data for backtesting and analysis.
Access comprehensive reference data for securities identification, corporate actions, and classifications.
Programmatic access to Bloomberg breaking news, articles, and research content.
Server-side APIs for distributing Bloomberg data to internal applications and trading systems.
SDKs available in Python, Java, C++, C#, and C for cross-platform integration.
Use Cases
Build algorithmic trading strategies using real-time and historical market data feeds.
Calculate portfolio risk metrics using Bloomberg's pricing and analytics data.
Automate financial research workflows with news, fundamental data, and analytics.
Generate regulatory compliance reports using reference data and pricing services.
Integrate Bloomberg data into portfolio management systems for real-time monitoring.
Integrations
Bloomberg Excel Add-In for spreadsheet-based data analysis and modeling.
Python SDK (blpapi) for data science and quantitative finance applications.
Bloomberg Datafeed Toolbox for MATLAB for financial modeling and analysis.
Rblpapi package for accessing Bloomberg data in R statistical computing.
Integration with order management and execution management systems.