Bloomberg Brings the Power of its Website to the Desktop

NEW YORK, March 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Bloomberg LP has launched a custom desktop application allowing web users to access live radio, exclusive financial news stories and one of the deepest databases of stock information on the free internet.

Unlike narrowly focused widget offerings which allow users just a handful of stock quotes or new alerts, the new BLOOMBERG.COM(R) desktop application draws on the power and functionality of BLOOMBERG.COM, one of the nation's leading financial resources.

The desktop application allows users to access more than 150 global stock exchanges -- from Hong Kong to Hungary, Singapore to Stockholm -- as well as live BLOOMBERG RADIO(R) anywhere in the world.

    Additional features of the interface include:

     -- Access the BLOOMBERG.COM portfolio tracker, allowing investors to
        manage as many as 100 securities in as many as five portfolios.
     -- A search quote function including stock news quotes, company press
        releases and powerful charting.
     -- News alerts customizable by ticker.
     -- Access to exclusive BLOOMBERG NEWS(R) stories in 30 categories
        including stocks, bonds and emerging markets.
     -- Access to BLOOMBERG.COM news archive.

The toolbar is free, and can be downloaded at this location: http://www.bloomberg.com/invest/desktop.html

About Bloomberg

Bloomberg is the leading global provider of financial data, news and analytics. The BLOOMBERG PROFESSIONAL(R) service and Bloomberg's media services provide real-time and archived financial and market data, pricing, trading, news and communications tools in a single, integrated package to corporations, news organizations, financial and legal professionals and individuals around the world. Bloomberg's media services include the global BLOOMBERG NEWS(R) service with more than 2,300 professionals in over 130 bureaus worldwide; the BLOOMBERG TELEVISION(R) 24-hour business and financial network produced and distributed worldwide on eleven channels in seven languages; the award-winning BLOOMBERG.COM(R) website; and BLOOMBERG RADIO(R) services providing up-to-the-minute news on XM, Sirius and WorldSpace satellite radio globally and on WBBR 1130AM in New York. In addition, Bloomberg publishes BLOOMBERG MARKETS(R) magazine and BLOOMBERG PRESS(R) books for investment professionals. For more information please visit http://www.bloomberg.com.

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