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LSEG Tick History – Query
Historical market data is a valuable commodity in the financial sector. The variety of use cases – from backtesting and trade cost analysis to risk management and algorithmic trading – means that accessing high-quality historical data at speed – and being able to analyse it with ease - is essential in the financial sector.

LSEG Tick History – Query enables you to query and analyse our LSEG Tick History data set of historical real-time pricing data, covering OTC and exchange-traded instruments, from more than 500 trading venues and third-party contributors. And you can analyse that data at speed using the full power of the Google® BigQuery™ compute engine. There are also significant TCO benefits, since there is no need for significant data storage hardware or infrastructure.

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