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An overview of London Stock Exchange
- The London Stock Exchange (LSE) is the primary capital market for UK securities, which is part of the wider LSE Group, and is regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). It provides trading for blue chip, mid-tier and small cap stocks, as well as its main benchmarks, which are the FTSE 100 Index, All-Share, and 250 indices.
- We provide the London Stock Exchange’s main market information services in real time for all instruments within the LSE Level 1 and Level 2 (market depth) products. This includes all asset types such as equity, ETFs, commodities and many more. We also provide the Level 1 as a delayed data service.
- You can access the data in many ways, all designed and tailored for your specific needs and workflows. These could be for trading using electronic low latency data feed, through our desktop services using analytical tools, or via our end-of-day valuation and risk management products.
Key Facts
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Geographical coverageUnited Kingdom
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HistoryFrom 2001
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Data formatCSVDelimitedGZIPHTMLJSONPDFPythonTextUser InterfaceXMLZip Archive
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Delivery mechanismAPICloudDesktopDigital FilesExcelFTPRSS FeedSFTPWebsite
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Data frequencyContinuousDaily
Features & Benefits
What you get with London Stock Exchange
- We provide a London Stock Exchange real-time low latency data feed platform, providing access to all data types in a globally consistent data model for open access and easy adoption of all global exchanges.
- We are market leaders in the depth of historic data that is stored, which is all validated and cleansed. We have years of normalized data available in our end-of-day historical data and our full tick history data services, covering all London Stock Exchange historical data.
- Get full access to associated benchmarks and indices, including all the major providers such as FTSE and MSCI.
- Access corporate action and dividend data, all of which can be consumed in a timely manner through either our electronic feeds or desktops platforms.
- To support in-depth quantitative analysis, our trade data offering is fully normalized and includes all trade classification data including the FIX market standard MMT schema (Market Model Typology).
- Depending on your specific needs, you can receive full-market depth data, standard Level 1 access or free-of-charge, 15-minute delayed post-trade data which drives all investor workflows and access to any price.
- Get full data access through our Eikon and Workspace desktops, which have a wealth of valuable analytics, and daily and intraday charting applications.
- We offer both intuitive request-response and bulk access to a wide array of LSE reference data content, including instrument- and venue-level reference data, cross reference symbology, and MiFID II and Brexit regulatory data from ESMA FIRDS, and the FCA.
- Benefit from Reuters global news service combined with the LSE’s own Regulatory News Service (RNS), providing real-time insight and key decision-making information.
How it works
Accessing the dataset
This dataset can be used by the following products. Talk to us to learn more about different packages and offerings.
Refinitiv Data Platform
The Refinitiv Data Platform delivers a single, consistent data experience to access, distribute and build with Refinitiv and third party data. With cloud-enabled platform capabilities and flexible distribution options, the Refinitiv Data Platform enables faster deployment of applications, greater scale with workflow-critical analytics and a reimagined approach to technology innovation, data distribution and management
- Data Formats:
- JSON
- Delivery Mechanisms:
- API
- Service Frequencies:
- Real time
- Real time delayed
- Real time conflated
- Daily
Eikon
Refinitiv Eikon delivers a powerful combination of information, analytics and exclusive news on financial markets – delivered in an elegant and intuitive desktop and mobile interface.
- Data Formats:
- CSV
- XML
- JSON
- User Interface
- Python
- Delivery Mechanisms:
- API
- Desktop
- Excel
- Service Frequencies:
- Real time
- Real time delayed
- Daily
Refinitiv DataScope Select
Refinitiv DataScope Select is a unique platform that offers intuitive, cross-asset and timely access to all of Refinitiv reference and pricing data. Data is delivered by Refinitiv DataScope Select across the following platforms: HTTP/HTTPS, FTP/SFTP and API.
- Data Formats:
- CSV
- XML
- Zip Archive
- GZIP
- Delimited
- Delivery Mechanisms:
- FTP
- API
- SFTP
- Service Frequencies:
- Real time
- Real time delayed
- Daily
Knowledge Direct
Knowledge Direct API uses industry standard protocols (SOAP and XML) to deliver Refinitiv content for inclusion within internal or external client applications. Using XML request/response, clients can access a comprehensive offering of company and economic Data (fundamentals, estimates, significant developments, etc.), market data, news and quotes and the associated capabilities, including charts, search and timeseries.
- Data Formats:
- CSV
- XML
- Delivery Mechanisms:
- FTP
- API
- Service Frequencies:
- Real time
- Real time delayed
Refinitiv On Demand
Refinitiv On Demand is a delivery channel for Refinitiv content and capabilities enabling clients to customize the information they want to receive on a bespoke basis. Refinitiv On Demand provides a consultative approach to provide efficient, timely custom solutions to help clients make informed decisions. The final reports and analysis are delivered to clients via email.
Note: Refinitiv On Demand is not available as part of a Refinitiv Access deal. Please consult your account manager.
- Data Formats:
- CSV
- Text
- Delivery Mechanisms:
- Digital Files
- Service Frequencies:
- On-demand
Refinitiv Datastream
Welcome to Datastream, our historical financial database with over 40 million individual instruments or indicators across all major asset classes, including 15 million economic indicators. It features 100+ years of data, across 175 countries – the information and tools you need to interpret market trends, economic cycles, and the impact of world events.
Datastream is available via Datastream Advance (EOL Sept 2021) or via Eikon DFO, Eikon R&A, Refinitiv Workspace for Students, Refinitiv Workspace for Academics, Refinitiv Workspace for Wealth. It is expected to be included in many more variants of Refinitiv Workspace during 2021.
Datafeed access is via Datastream Data Loader & Datastream Web Service (which includes Matlab, EViews, Python, R & codebook integration)
Client desktop tools include
DFO (Datastream for Office)
Datastream Charting, including Chartbook
Navigator - Search & Navigation tool
- Data Formats:
- HTML
- Delivery Mechanisms:
- RSS Feed
- API
- Desktop
- Service Frequencies:
- Intraday snapshot
- Daily
Workspace
Refinitiv Workspace delivers a powerful combination of information, analytics and exclusive news on financial markets – delivered in an elegant and intuitive desktop and mobile interface.
- Data Formats:
- CSV
- XML
- JSON
- User Interface
- Python
- Delivery Mechanisms:
- API
- Desktop
- Excel
- Service Frequencies:
- Real time
- Real time delayed
Refinitiv DataScope Plus
Refinitiv DataScope Plus delivers bulk end of day pricing and intraday reference and entity data that updates automatically every 15 minutes based to ensure clients’ security masters are current and accurate.
- Data Formats:
- XML
- Zip Archive
- GZIP
- Delimited
- Delivery Mechanisms:
- FTP
- SFTP
- Service Frequencies:
- Daily
Refinitiv Tick History
Tick History provides superior coverage of complete, timely, and global nanosecond tick data. This enables you to download the data you need when you need it, via a single interface.
Coverage goes back as far as 1996 with a standardized naming convention based on RIC symbology that helps lower your data management cost.
Captured from real-time data feeds, Tick History offers global tick data since 1996 across all asset classes, covering both OTC and exchange-traded instruments from 500+ exchanges and third-party contributor data, the majority available two hours after markets close.
- Data Formats:
- CSV
- JSON
- GZIP
- Delivery Mechanisms:
- Website
- API
- Cloud
- Service Frequencies:
- Intraday
DETAILED DATA SUPPORT
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RIC SearchDiscover specific data that Refinitiv makes available for each RIC (Reuters Instrument Code).
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Real-Time message specificationsSpecifications for our real-time messages, components and fields.
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Our historical pricing dataExample usage, data and schema for our historical pricing data, which cover 20m+ products.
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Explore Tick History dataSchema, Example Jupyter notebooks and sample data for our Tick History dataset.
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