Bloomberg

Bloomberg L.P. is an American privately held company operating in financial data, software and media. It was founded in 1981 in New York City by Michael Bloomberg, Thomas Secunda, Duncan MacMillan and Charles Zegar. Its headquarters is located in Bloomberg Tower at 731 Lexington Avenue in Manhattan. The flagship product is the Bloomberg Terminal, a subscription platform delivering market data, analytics, news and trading tools to financial professionals. The group also operates Bloomberg News, a global news organization spanning print, television, radio and digital channels. In 2023 the company’s research team introduced BloombergGPT, a large language model trained on financial data. The company remains majority-owned by Michael Bloomberg and is not publicly listed. It is estimated to employ around 26,000 people, with annual revenue assessed at roughly US$15 billion in 2024.