CONN/DFLT: Press to log-in and log-out
ESCAPE/Cancel: Abort the function
PEOPLE: Information about people (news, career history, boards, personal, education compensation,etc.)
GOVT: Displays lists of bond (U.S. & International)
CORP: Corporate news, stocks, bond prices & yields by company
MTGE: Mortgage pools and generics
M-MKT: Money markets (for borrowing or lending money for 3 or less years)- information on specific issues: bonds, t-bills, commercial paper
MUNI: Information about bonds issued by municipalities in the U.S.
PRFD: Covers public and private preferred securities offered by countries
EQUITY: Displays trades and information about listed and OTC U.S. and global stocks. Historical U. S. equity data = back to 1980
CMDTY: Exchange listed futures and options contracts unerlying financial and physical products such as wheat, gold, weather, etc.
INDEX: Statistical data and market info, includes markets and economic indicators
CRNCY: Current market information for global currencies
GO: Same as ENTER key on a regular keyboard
MENU: Back to the previous menu
HELP: Type a keyword and press Help for help. Press HELP twice to get the Bloomberg chat window
SEARCH: Search Bloomberg
PRINT: Print to Journalism Printers
MESSAGE: Send email messages and view incoming alerts/headlines
INS: Insert
HOME: Same as HOME on regular keyboard
PgDWN FWD: Same page down on a regular keyboard
CMND: Same as command on a regular keyboard
GO: Same as ENTER key on a regular keyboard
END: Same as END key on a regular keyboard
PANEL: Toggle between Bloomberg windows
Type a keyword, company name, name of a person, etc. Press HELP to search the entire database.
Press HELP twice to open a chat window to the Bloomberg Help Desk
Type IPCB to open a list of cheat-sheets.
MSGM - Message System Main Menu
IB - Instant Bloomberg chat
GRAB - Type GRAB from any screen to send a single screen as a message attachment
N Main News menu
NSE News search engine
TOP Today's top headlines
TOP DEAL Today's top M&A headlines
READ Most read news
NRR News readership rankings
TNI Dual news category search
MNI Most read news by category
NI READ Scrolling version of most-read stories
NI HOT Global hot news
NI WNEWS Who's who people news
AV Audio Visual / Multimedia menu
LIVE Live broadcasts & interviews
NRC Search for news wires by name or language