Talk to NYSE/ICE they are "rumored" to be in discussion to combine with Bloomberg along the lines of the Refinitiv business combination.
Bloomberg may take them private but Bloomberg will never become a publicly traded and owned company, not at least in Michael's lifetime. The entire enterprise for decades has existed and operated for one purpose: to fund the philanthropic effort that MB envisioned.
BBG is for Rates and OTC traders. There isn't really a market for retail and Koyfin (as prev stated) is free.
+Just spent a couple of days on Koyfin and can't any added value to TWS. What is Koyfin doing that others are not I wonder?
You guys should check out HarmonicPattern.com . They offer a mix of fundamental data for 66,000 companies, M&A deals search, Macroeconomic data and pattern recognition for technical analysis at $99/month. This software is great if you only trade equity, forex and crypto. I believe they are working on futures and options at the moment
Have you tried their Ruby plan ? Tradingview chart is just for pattern recognition. With Ruby plan you can access fundamental data for all public companies dating back to 2000 with news, analysts recommendation, option chains v.v. What I like most is their M&A database (only accessible for Ruby plan as well) where you can search for the deal you want (I work in advisory). You probably tried gold or diamond plan. That's not what I was suggesting in my previous post. Try their Ruby package instead. It's an all in one solution.
Would ICE Really Buy Bloomberg? Would ICE Really Buy Bloomberg? 23 August 2019 Data Delivery & DistributionData Delivery, Cloud & Managed ServicesData GovernanceExecution VenuesMarket Data Share article LinkedInTwitterFacebookEmailShare By Andrew Delaney. The London Stock Exchange’s planned $27 billion acquisition of Refinitiv – the former Reuters – got us thinking: who’s left of the independent market data vendors, and who would buy them? Of the major global vendors that have dominated the space over the past decade or so, only one independent remains. With Interactive Data Corp. taken out of the marketplace by ICE – formally the InterContinental Exchange and owner of the New York Stock Exchange and other markets – and the former Telekurs probably inextricably integrated into the Swiss SIX exchange operator, only Bloomberg still stands as an independent entity whose primary activity is market data. In the wake of the LSE-Refinitiv news – and the ensuing discussion of all its benefits in bringing together data and transactions, exploiting indices to create derivative products and data services, and scale, scale, scale – we mused whether the time was finally right for one of the FAANGS to swoop in and swallow up out industry. Some years ago, we speculated in these pages that Google might in fact make a play for Reuters. It never happened, though the story remains top of our ‘most read’ list. So would Google make a play for Bloomberg, we wondered? Think of what it could do with all that data. Or maybe Amazon, perhaps the ultimately electronic marketplace? And speaking of markets, let’s not forget eBay, whose CEO once helped run Reuters; maybe some interest there? In each of these cases, the prospect of regulation made the prospect of a deal – for us, at least – unlikely. Would Google/Amazon/ANO FAANG of your choice really be willing to take on the levels of scrutiny required by today’s financial markets? The answer is almost certainly no, notwithstanding the fact that they have their own regulatory fish to fry. Perhaps the answer is closer to home after all. It would take a big and very aggressive fish indeed to snag Bloomberg. ICE fits the bill. Snapping up NYSE Group and IDC were no mean feats. If anyone can xxx Bloomberg – long the No. 1 market data vendor – ICE can. Combining them into a financial transactions and data powerhouse would doubtless have its challenges. But ICE has done it before, and the likely outcome would resemble the LSE’s vision for its Refinitiv tie-in – a global multi-asset trading and market data factory that relies less on exchange activities and wrings increasing value from data, analytics and indices. Ah, but would Bloomberg really sell. Controlled by Michael Bloomberg, the decision to sell would be relatively straightforward. And the short answer is: Michael’s gotta sell sometime. Like the rest of us, he ain’t getting any younger. His true passion seems to rest elsewhere; politics, yes, but philanthropy perhaps more. There is no dynasty to take over. So, will ICE really buy Bloomberg? The strong signals we are receiving here at A-Team HQ is that it will. Does it make sense? Yes, it appears to. How much? More than $27 billion.
Do they have APIs for developers to retrieve data from their database to do their own custom analysis? Thank you.