Most people in my firm (used to be one of the top wall st firms until, say, around march :) swear by bloomberg. So do the guys who bought us. You'll definitely need some sort of login system that allows chatting and a LOT more information if you wanna get these people off their bloomberg terms.
Hello to you there @ Bear Stearns. I'm a Bloomberg core infrastructure engineer, and I can second that. I can type in a symbol and type in a functional mnemonic, hit enter and see a news aggregate pertaining to a certain security, along with just about everything else you want to know about the security and/or the company underlying it. And of course Bloomberg messaging is a premier form of OTC trading. I understand this is most likely targeting the armchair investor (aka clueless speculator) although they should probably go to Vegas instead if they think they're going to make consistent returns picking stocks with their meager information.
Hello. I'd like to talk to you about life working for Bloomberg if you wouldn't mind. jdennis@gmail.