This Bloomberg Anywhere subscription is temporary and will expire on February 2022. You can still continue to book and access the Bloomberg terminals within the Investment Studio. As there are limited number of accounts, do click log-out when you finish your session so that others can access. Account activation may take up to 2 working days and is for academic purposes at SMU only. Guides: How do I use Bloomberg, common FAQs and Bloomberg Market Concepts FAQs.įaculty, PhD, and staff only: For online access to Bloomberg Anywhere, please sign up using the Learner Sign Up link and email us at to activate the account. Released in 2010, Thomson Reuters Eikon was the company’s flagship new financial platform, introduced with great fanfare globally through the largest public relations campaign ever undertaken by either Thomson or Reuters. Optional: Create an individual Bloomberg account. It was new, shiny, and built to usurp its entrenched market rival. Login Instructions: Use the desktop shortcut on the terminals and enter the login ID/Password. Use this database to obtain financial and business information, including real-time and intra-day data.īooking instructions: Book a terminal here and use the Bloomberg computers at the Investment Studio in Level 3. There is a lot of disruption in the financial news/data business. After this failed Thomson sold the financial data terminal business to Blackstone in 2018.
Reuters merged with Thomson in 2008 to take on Bloomberg with Eikon. Bloomberg provides real-time and historical pricing, indicative and fundamental data, charts and graphs on different topics, customized analytics, and market news. Bloomberg and Reuters lost market share to smaller financial data providers in 2017, underlining the global finance industry’s gradual shift away from the costly desktop terminals that have long. Reuters/refinitiv Eikon is not taking share from Bloomberg although it is cheaper.