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Bloomberg: Getting Started: Fixed Income

Find Corporate Bonds

Searching for a corporate bond

Enter the Security Ticker, <Corp>, Go

  • Ex: TGT<Corp> Go

If you don't know the ticker, enter the name of the company. In the Securities autofill list, find the Corp match, not the equity version. 

  • Ex: TGT Corp

Screening for corporate bonds

Enter SRCH <Go>

Defaults to include both Corporate and Government bonds in assets classes. Search by active and matured bonds. You can add additional fields to screen by, such as coupon, coupon type, rating, and more. 

 

Frequently Used Fixed Income Function Codes

Known ticker:

  • TICKER <CORP> FUNCTION <GO>

Popular Functions:

  • DES: Bond Description 
  • YAS: Yield and Spread Analysis
  • HP: Historical Prices table
  • GP: Price Graph 
  • CRPR: Credit Profile
  • CAST: Capital Structure
  • COMB: Comparable Analysis
  • FIRV: Fixed Income Relative Value