Editing Bloomberg Terminal (section)

=== Core Terminal ===
''Core Terminal'' is the original Bloomberg system; typically consisting of four windows, or ''Panels'', each Panel contains a separate instance of the terminal command line. As the user enters tickers and functions, they can call up and display the real-time data of the market, with each different screen simultaneously running a program to analyze other tickers, functions, values and markets in real time.  This use of multiple screens with user-demanded, specific pieces of differing data—across all relevant markets—allows the user to view diverse and countless volumes of information in real-time.  Accessing market data, as it develops, allows the user to make trades and investments in all markets across the world, without having any lag in information.  Users can run all four windows on a single monitor or spread them out amongst many monitors, maximizing the information shown on each, to effectually create up to four terminals.

In February 2012, Bloomberg LP publicly announced an upgrade to the Terminal called ''Bloomberg NEXT''. The stated goals of this multi-year, $100 million project were to improve the discoverability and usability of the Core Terminal's functionality.<ref>{{cite news|last=Edgecliffe-Johnson|first=Andrew|title=Bloomberg to reveal data service redesign|url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/8f429986-6093-11e1-af75-00144feabdc0.html|access-date=April 15, 2012|newspaper=Financial Times|date=February 27, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120402213845/http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/8f429986-6093-11e1-af75-00144feabdc0.html|archive-date=April 2, 2012|url-status=live}}</ref>