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Bloomberg Market Data

Schema for Bloomberg market data representing real-time and reference data for financial securities as delivered through the BLPAPI //blp/mktdata (subscription) and //blp/refdata (request/response) services. Covers equities, fixed income, commodities, currencies, and indices.

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Properties

Name Type Description
security object
timestamp string ISO 8601 timestamp of the market data snapshot
pricing object
volume object
referenceData object
historicalData array Array of historical data points from the //blp/refdata HistoricalDataRequest service
intradayBar array Intraday bar data from the BLPAPI IntradayBarRequest service with OHLCV aggregation per interval
fieldExceptions array Field-level errors for unavailable or invalid requested fields as returned by the BLPAPI response
securityError object
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JSON Schema

bloomberg-news-market-data-schema.json Raw ↑
{
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "$id": "https://bloomberg.com/schemas/bloomberg-news/market-data.json",
  "title": "Bloomberg Market Data",
  "description": "Schema for Bloomberg market data representing real-time and reference data for financial securities as delivered through the BLPAPI //blp/mktdata (subscription) and //blp/refdata (request/response) services. Covers equities, fixed income, commodities, currencies, and indices.",
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "security",
    "timestamp"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "security": {
      "$ref": "#/$defs/SecurityIdentifier"
    },
    "timestamp": {
      "type": "string",
      "format": "date-time",
      "description": "ISO 8601 timestamp of the market data snapshot"
    },
    "pricing": {
      "$ref": "#/$defs/PricingData"
    },
    "volume": {
      "$ref": "#/$defs/VolumeData"
    },
    "referenceData": {
      "$ref": "#/$defs/ReferenceData"
    },
    "historicalData": {
      "type": "array",
      "description": "Array of historical data points from the //blp/refdata HistoricalDataRequest service",
      "items": {
        "$ref": "#/$defs/HistoricalDataPoint"
      }
    },
    "intradayBar": {
      "type": "array",
      "description": "Intraday bar data from the BLPAPI IntradayBarRequest service with OHLCV aggregation per interval",
      "items": {
        "$ref": "#/$defs/IntradayBar"
      }
    },
    "fieldExceptions": {
      "type": "array",
      "description": "Field-level errors for unavailable or invalid requested fields as returned by the BLPAPI response",
      "items": {
        "$ref": "#/$defs/FieldException"
      }
    },
    "securityError": {
      "$ref": "#/$defs/SecurityError"
    }
  },
  "$defs": {
    "SecurityIdentifier": {
      "type": "object",
      "description": "Bloomberg security identification using the TICKER MARKET_SECTOR format and supplementary identifiers",
      "required": ["ticker"],
      "properties": {
        "ticker": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "Bloomberg ticker in TICKER MARKET_SECTOR format as used in BLPAPI security subscriptions",
          "examples": ["AAPL US Equity", "USDJPY Curncy", "CL1 Comdty", "SPX Index", "T 4.5 05/15/38 Govt"]
        },
        "figi": {
          "type": ["string", "null"],
          "description": "Financial Instrument Global Identifier (FIGI) assigned by Bloomberg"
        },
        "isin": {
          "type": ["string", "null"],
          "description": "International Securities Identification Number",
          "pattern": "^[A-Z]{2}[A-Z0-9]{9}[0-9]$"
        },
        "cusip": {
          "type": ["string", "null"],
          "description": "Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number",
          "pattern": "^[A-Z0-9]{9}$"
        },
        "sedol": {
          "type": ["string", "null"],
          "description": "Stock Exchange Daily Official List identifier",
          "pattern": "^[A-Z0-9]{7}$"
        },
        "bloombergId": {
          "type": ["string", "null"],
          "description": "Bloomberg unique security identifier (ID_BB_UNIQUE)"
        },
        "name": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "Security display name from the NAME reference data field"
        },
        "assetClass": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "Bloomberg asset class or market sector",
          "enum": [
            "Equity",
            "Fixed Income",
            "Commodity",
            "Currency",
            "Index",
            "Fund",
            "Mortgage",
            "Municipal",
            "Preferred",
            "Money Market",
            "Government"
          ]
        },
        "exchange": {
          "type": ["string", "null"],
          "description": "Primary exchange where the security trades (EXCH_CODE field)"
        },
        "country": {
          "type": ["string", "null"],
          "description": "Country of domicile ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code (COUNTRY_ISO field)"
        },
        "currency": {
          "type": ["string", "null"],
          "description": "Trading currency ISO 4217 code (CRNCY field)",
          "pattern": "^[A-Z]{3}$"
        }
      }
    },
    "PricingData": {
      "type": "object",
      "description": "Real-time and delayed pricing fields from the BLPAPI //blp/mktdata subscription service",
      "properties": {
        "lastPrice": {
          "type": ["number", "null"],
          "description": "Last traded price (PX_LAST / LAST_PRICE field)"
        },
        "bid": {
          "type": ["number", "null"],
          "description": "Current best bid price (BID field)"
        },
        "ask": {
          "type": ["number", "null"],
          "description": "Current best ask price (ASK field)"
        },
        "mid": {
          "type": ["number", "null"],
          "description": "Mid price calculated as (BID + ASK) / 2 (MID field)"
        },
        "open": {
          "type": ["number", "null"],
          "description": "Opening price for the current trading session (PX_OPEN / OPEN field)"
        },
        "high": {
          "type": ["number", "null"],
          "description": "Highest price for the current trading session (PX_HIGH / HIGH field)"
        },
        "low": {
          "type": ["number", "null"],
          "description": "Lowest price for the current trading session (PX_LOW / LOW field)"
        },
        "close": {
          "type": ["number", "null"],
          "description": "Previous close price (PX_LAST for prior session / PREV_CLOSE_VALUE_DT)"
        },
        "previousClose": {
          "type": ["number", "null"],
          "description": "Previous trading session close price (PREV_CLOSE_VALUE_DT field)"
        },
        "vwap": {
          "type": ["number", "null"],
          "description": "Volume-weighted average price (EQY_WEIGHTED_AVG_PX field)"
        },
        "change": {
          "type": ["number", "null"],
          "description": "Net change from previous close (CHG_NET_1D field)"
        },
        "changePercent": {
          "type": ["number", "null"],
          "description": "Percentage change from previous close (CHG_PCT_1D field)"
        },
        "bidSize": {
          "type": ["integer", "null"],
          "description": "Number of shares/contracts at the best bid (BID_SIZE field)",
          "minimum": 0
        },
        "askSize": {
          "type": ["integer", "null"],
          "description": "Number of shares/contracts at the best ask (ASK_SIZE field)",
          "minimum": 0
        },
        "lastTradeTime": {
          "type": ["string", "null"],
          "format": "date-time",
          "description": "Timestamp of the last trade (TRADE_UPDATE_STAMP_RT field)"
        }
      }
    },
    "VolumeData": {
      "type": "object",
      "description": "Volume and turnover fields from the BLPAPI market data service",
      "properties": {
        "volume": {
          "type": ["integer", "null"],
          "description": "Total shares/contracts traded in the current session (VOLUME / PX_VOLUME field)",
          "minimum": 0
        },
        "averageVolume30D": {
          "type": ["number", "null"],
          "description": "30-day average daily trading volume (VOLUME_AVG_30D field)",
          "minimum": 0
        },
        "turnover": {
          "type": ["number", "null"],
          "description": "Total monetary value of shares traded (TURNOVER field)",
          "minimum": 0
        },
        "numTrades": {
          "type": ["integer", "null"],
          "description": "Number of trades in the current session (NUM_TRADES field)",
          "minimum": 0
        }
      }
    },
    "ReferenceData": {
      "type": "object",
      "description": "Static and calculated reference data fields from the BLPAPI //blp/refdata ReferenceDataRequest service",
      "properties": {
        "name": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "Full security name (NAME field)"
        },
        "shortName": {
          "type": ["string", "null"],
          "description": "Abbreviated security name (SHORT_NAME field)"
        },
        "marketCap": {
          "type": ["number", "null"],
          "description": "Market capitalization in local currency (CUR_MKT_CAP field)",
          "minimum": 0
        },
        "sharesOutstanding": {
          "type": ["number", "null"],
          "description": "Total shares outstanding (EQY_SH_OUT field)",
          "minimum": 0
        },
        "peRatio": {
          "type": ["number", "null"],
          "description": "Price-to-earnings ratio (PE_RATIO field)"
        },
        "dividendYield": {
          "type": ["number", "null"],
          "description": "Indicated dividend yield percentage (EQY_DVD_YLD_IND field)"
        },
        "earningsPerShare": {
          "type": ["number", "null"],
          "description": "Earnings per share (IS_EPS field)"
        },
        "bookValuePerShare": {
          "type": ["number", "null"],
          "description": "Book value per share (BOOK_VAL_PER_SH field)"
        },
        "priceToBookRatio": {
          "type": ["number", "null"],
          "description": "Price-to-book ratio (PX_TO_BOOK_RATIO field)"
        },
        "sector": {
          "type": ["string", "null"],
          "description": "Bloomberg Industry Classification System (BICS) sector (INDUSTRY_SECTOR field)"
        },
        "industryGroup": {
          "type": ["string", "null"],
          "description": "BICS industry group (INDUSTRY_GROUP field)"
        },
        "industrySubGroup": {
          "type": ["string", "null"],
          "description": "BICS industry sub-group (INDUSTRY_SUBGROUP field)"
        },
        "beta": {
          "type": ["number", "null"],
          "description": "Adjusted beta relative to the local market index (BETA_ADJ_OVERRIDABLE field)"
        },
        "week52High": {
          "type": ["number", "null"],
          "description": "52-week high price (HIGH_52WEEK field)"
        },
        "week52Low": {
          "type": ["number", "null"],
          "description": "52-week low price (LOW_52WEEK field)"
        },
        "movingAverage200D": {
          "type": ["number", "null"],
          "description": "200-day simple moving average (MOV_AVG_200D field)"
        },
        "movingAverage50D": {
          "type": ["number", "null"],
          "description": "50-day simple moving average (MOV_AVG_50D field)"
        },
        "dayCountConvention": {
          "type": ["string", "null"],
          "description": "Day count convention for fixed income securities (DAY_CNT_DES field)"
        },
        "couponRate": {
          "type": ["number", "null"],
          "description": "Coupon rate for fixed income securities (CPN field)"
        },
        "maturityDate": {
          "type": ["string", "null"],
          "format": "date",
          "description": "Maturity date for fixed income securities (MATURITY field)"
        },
        "yieldToMaturity": {
          "type": ["number", "null"],
          "description": "Yield to maturity for fixed income securities (YLD_YTM_MID field)"
        },
        "creditRating": {
          "type": ["string", "null"],
          "description": "Composite credit rating (RTG_COMPOSITE field)"
        }
      }
    },
    "HistoricalDataPoint": {
      "type": "object",
      "description": "A single historical data point from the BLPAPI HistoricalDataRequest service",
      "required": ["date"],
      "properties": {
        "date": {
          "type": "string",
          "format": "date",
          "description": "Date of the historical data point"
        },
        "open": {
          "type": ["number", "null"],
          "description": "Opening price (PX_OPEN field)"
        },
        "high": {
          "type": ["number", "null"],
          "description": "Highest price (PX_HIGH field)"
        },
        "low": {
          "type": ["number", "null"],
          "description": "Lowest price (PX_LOW field)"
        },
        "close": {
          "type": ["number", "null"],
          "description": "Closing price (PX_LAST field)"
        },
        "volume": {
          "type": ["integer", "null"],
          "description": "Total volume (PX_VOLUME field)",
          "minimum": 0
        },
        "value": {
          "type": ["number", "null"],
          "description": "Generic field value when requesting a single non-OHLCV field"
        }
      }
    },
    "IntradayBar": {
      "type": "object",
      "description": "Aggregated intraday OHLCV bar from the BLPAPI IntradayBarRequest service",
      "required": ["time"],
      "properties": {
        "time": {
          "type": "string",
          "format": "date-time",
          "description": "Start time of the intraday bar interval"
        },
        "open": {
          "type": "number",
          "description": "Opening price of the interval"
        },
        "high": {
          "type": "number",
          "description": "Highest price during the interval"
        },
        "low": {
          "type": "number",
          "description": "Lowest price during the interval"
        },
        "close": {
          "type": "number",
          "description": "Closing price of the interval"
        },
        "volume": {
          "type": "integer",
          "description": "Total volume during the interval",
          "minimum": 0
        },
        "numEvents": {
          "type": "integer",
          "description": "Number of trade events during the interval",
          "minimum": 0
        }
      }
    },
    "FieldException": {
      "type": "object",
      "description": "Error information for a field that could not be returned, as provided in BLPAPI fieldExceptions",
      "properties": {
        "fieldId": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "The requested field identifier that caused the exception"
        },
        "errorInfo": {
          "type": "object",
          "description": "Nested error details",
          "properties": {
            "source": {
              "type": "string",
              "description": "Source of the error"
            },
            "code": {
              "type": "integer",
              "description": "Numeric error code"
            },
            "category": {
              "type": "string",
              "description": "Error category classification"
            },
            "message": {
              "type": "string",
              "description": "Human-readable error message"
            },
            "subCategory": {
              "type": ["string", "null"],
              "description": "Error sub-category for more specific classification"
            }
          }
        }
      }
    },
    "SecurityError": {
      "type": "object",
      "description": "Error returned when the requested security identifier is invalid or not found in the BLPAPI service",
      "properties": {
        "source": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "Source of the error"
        },
        "code": {
          "type": "integer",
          "description": "Numeric error code"
        },
        "category": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "Error category classification"
        },
        "message": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "Human-readable error message describing the security error"
        },
        "subCategory": {
          "type": ["string", "null"],
          "description": "Error sub-category for more specific classification"
        }
      }
    }
  }
}