Bloomberg L.P. is a privately held financial software, data and media company headquartered in New York City. Bloomberg L.P. was founded by Michael Bloomberg in 1981 with the help of Thomas Secunda, Duncan MacMillan, Charles Zegar and a 30% ownership investment by Merrill Lynch. Bloomberg L.P. provides financial software tools such as an analytics and equity trading platform, data services and news to financial companies and organizations through the Bloomberg terminal, its core money-generating product. Bloomberg L.P. also includes a wire service, a global television network, a radio station, websites, subscription-only newsletters and three magazines: Bloomberg Businessweek, Bloomberg Markets and Bloomberg Pursuit.
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