Bloomberg Second Measure transaction data analytics feeds are now available for the first time via Bloomberg Data License. This enables quants and research analysts to seamlessly connect our dataset with Bloomberg’s more traditional Data License content for early insight into the performance of consumer companies with greater depth of analysis.
Read the announcement here.
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