Interactive Bloomberg Keyboard To enhance your experience, Bloomberg provides a specialized keyboard. Use of the special keyboard provides colour-coded keys specially programmed to execute common actions. To open in another window click ‘LAUNCH’: LAUNCH
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: What do the coloured keys on the keyboard represent? A: RED keys are stop keys: they abort a function or log off the system. GREEN keys are your actions keys: the return or key, printing, page back, etc. YELLOW keys are the function keys: they are the market sector keys.
Common Currencies Codes
Common Currencies Codes- ECTR – Interactive trade-flow map
- FXCA – Currency conversion calculator
- PEG – Table of currencies linked to other currencies
- WIRA – World currency resources Common Equities Codes GP – Price chart used to identify trends and market patterns
- FXTF – Library of all worlds currencies
- FXC – Matrix of currency exchange rates
- WBG – Big Mac index identifying potentially overvalued or undervalued currencies
- IFMO – World inflation monitor
- WEI – World equity index monitor
- FXFC – Displays foreign exchange rate forecasts
- WGO – Gold resources of major countries
- FXFM – FX rate forecast model which displays a bell curve of implied volatility
- FRD – Displays FX forward rates for currency pairs
Common Fixed Income Codes
Common Fixed Income Codes- WCAP – Displays stock market capitalisation’s of entire country stock markets around the world
- SRCH – Encyclopedia of bonds
- BUDG – Data and analytics on the US federal budget
- YAS – Yields and spreads on government bonds
- DEBT – Statistics of sovereign debt for select countries
- STNI-FOMC – Side by side comparisons of official statements from the
- FOMC CAST – Visualisation of issuer capital structure
- DDIS – Visualisation of debt repayment schedules
- GY – Historic yield chart for a selected bond
- YA – Yield Analysis
- YAS – Yield and spread analysis
- WB – Monitors major sovereign bond yields and spreads
- WCDM – Country debt monitor analysing the financial condition of countries for debt investors
- WIRP – Probability ascribed by the market to future interest rate decisions
- RATD – Credit rating scales and definitions from various debt rating agencies
- CSDR – Real time credit ratings for sovereign borrowers
- CRPR – Displays current and historical credit rankings by issuer from various rating agencies
- SOUR – Monitor of global sovereign credit default swap spreads
- GC – Real time and historical yield curves
- FXFC – Foreign exchange rate forecasts
- IFMO – Inflation trading and data (rates, targets, forecasts)
- ECFC – Economic forecasts
- ILBE – Breakeven inflation rates derived from inflation protected securities
- FOMC – Policy decisions, news and analysis of the Federal Open Market Committee
- BYFC – Government bond yield estimates for various points in the future
Common Equities Codes
Common Equities Codes- EQS – An encyclopedia of all the equities listed on world stock markets
- MEMB – Shows the constituents of an index along with key data points on each member
- DES – Shows a tearsheet and factbook for a company
- EM – Shows actuals and estimates for a chosen equity
- WACC – Shows the weighted average cost of capital
- GF – Enables the graphing of financial data for a company or index
- IPO – Monitors equity offerings by stage, region, industry and other criteria
- TRA – Shows index returns including reinvested dividends
- CCB – Breaks down a company’s revenue along industry lines
- SURP – Shows the impact of surprise announcements on a stock’s performance by comparing historical announcements for the stock against consensus estimates
- CRP – Provides the current and historical risk premiums for individual countries and regions
- WPE – Monitors key fundamental ratios, such as
- P/E, across major equity indices
- GIP – Shows price trends during one or several trading days
- MRR – Shows the best and worst performers in a given index over a given period
- ICS – Shows companies by industry including revenue estimates
- EA – Provides an overview for earnings season performance for a specific industry
- BETA – Applies a regression analysis to an equity against it’s benchmark to assess relative volatility
- PEBD – Overlays a share price onto P/E ranges
- WEI – World equity index monitor
- FA – Provides historic financial statements and select future estimates for an equity or an index
- SPLC – Quantifies the key suppliers, customers and competitors of a company
- NI – Displays news stories on a specific topic
- EV – Depicts the breakdown of a firm value into it’s component parts
- RV – Provides a table of comparable valuation metrics for peer group companies
- SECF – A search tool that enables the discovery of securities by certain criteria
- EVTS – Displays a calendar of corporate happenings for a security or index
- BI – Provides analysis and data on a series of tailored industry dashboards
- EEG – Shows charts of the evolution of estimates over time
- DVD – Shows historic dividend payments for a company
- RVC – Generates a bubble chart of valuation measures for a set of peer group group companies
Development of the Bloomberg Keyboard
