Field symbols for Bloomberg financial data

Source: R/data.r

Helper dataset for working with Bloomberg in R. Provides field symbols for various security type-data type combinations

fields

Format

A data.table. Columns include:

  • instrument: underlying financial instrument type (futures, equity, fund, etc.).

  • book: data book.

  • type:subsection: data classification elements.

  • name: field name.

  • symbol: corresponding Bloomberg data field symbol.

Source

Bloomberg

See also

  • Data field search monitor on a Bloomberg terminal.

  • The finRes suite, in particular the hrefhttps://github.com/bautheac/pullit/pullit and storethat packages.