Datafeed Toolbox — Bloomberg, FRED, and Haver Analytics

Access financial and economic data from three major providers through the MATLAB Datafeed Toolbox.

When to Use

• User wants to connect to Bloomberg, FRED, or Haver Analytics from MATLAB
• User needs to retrieve market data (prices, history, real-time, reference data) via Bloomberg
• User needs to retrieve economic time series from the St. Louis Fed (FRED)
• User needs to fetch economic/financial time series from Haver Analytics databases
• User needs help choosing between interfaces within a provider (e.g., bloomberg vs blp vs bloombergHypermedia, haver vs haverview)
• User is writing MATLAB code involving securities, economic indicators, or data provider connectivity

When NOT to Use

• General financial modeling or portfolio optimization that doesn't involve data provider connectivity
• Bloomberg Terminal keyboard shortcuts or Excel add-in questions (not MATLAB)
• Data sources not covered here (e.g., Yahoo Finance, Reuters/Refinitiv)