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Automatically Import Stock Data - Yahoo Finance & Microsoft Excel
How to import Growth Estimates: Next 5 years(per annum) from yahoo finance to microsoft excel?
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Get a list of all available stock tickers from pandas_datareader.data.DataReader using 'Yahoo' as data source
I'm using pandas_datareader.data.DataReader and I need to list every ticker available to fetch information from, using yahoo as data source.
Is there a method to list them?
I've been sent to this web ...
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Yahoo Finance Adjusted Close for Mutual Funds
I am doing an analysis about Mutual Fund Performance.
I know if I use the Close Prices I can calculate the NAV Returns of a Mutual Funds
But I want to calculate the Total Returns. Can I do it if I use ...
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Yahoo finance continuous futures historical data
How is Yahoo Finance's continuous futures historical data calculated? Are these front-month numbers?
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Why does Yahoo finance give wrong data? [duplicate]
I'm using yahoo finance to download data for a ticker called ISF.L (it's a London based etf tracking the ftse 100).
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https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/quote/ISF.L/history?period1=1403823600&...
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Error in Yahoo! adjusted prices - The case of AAPL [duplicate]
One of my students reported that return for AAPL between April 30, 2014 and June 30, 2014 was different than what was shown in my class notes which were prepared in early 2016. I investigated the ...
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Why are Yahoo's "Adj closed" data changing over time?
I downloaded MSFT historical data from Yahoo Finance a year ago and re-downloaded it today again. I turns our the two datasets are different.
E.g., today I got Adj Close of MSFT for ...
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pandas pull 500 stocks through data reader
Is it possible to pull 500 stocks from yahoo finance through the pandas data reader at once?
I need to grab large chunks of adj close prices for different tickers. I can pull like 10-20 at a time and ...
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Downloaded CSV from Yahoo different than the same data when displayed on page?
Not sure, if this has already been asked or if I'm just overlooking a simple switch (such as for dividends or splits or something), so I'd like to ask for help:
I'm very aware of the fact that there ...
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Yahoo data meaning of "close" and "adjusted close"
When there's a 2-for-1 stock split,
the number of shares doubles, while
the value of the stock halves
For symbol 2154 on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, there was such a 2-for-1 split on 2016/3/29.
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Yahoo finance, interactive chart and historical prices are different
I am very new to the stocks. I checked the TNTE.AS stock on Yahoo Finance website. Here it provides "Interactive Chart" and "Historical Prices".
But I found they are showing different values.
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Obtaining intra-day values of the EUR-USD exchange
I need for my project the values of the EUR-USD exchange (both intra-day and ticker). I've been playing around with the Yahoo's YQL API and at this moment I can obtain the current value of the ...
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How can I convert Yahoo Ticker Symbols into ISIN Codes?
I have a list of all Yahoo Ticker Symbols and I want to convert them into ISIN Codes. I have been researching and found out that finance.yahoo in the US does not ...
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Yahoo finance inaccurate stock data
Why is Yahoo Finance historical stock price data inaccurate? See examples:
AAPL - actual closing prices in 2012 when AAPL previously closed > $100/share adjusted ...
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Yahoo OHLC data reflects nonexistant stock split
Can anyone explain why the OHLC data I'm getting from yahoo appears to reflect stock splits during times when no significant corporate actions have occurred?
For example, I'm looking at ABT and yahoo ...
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Commodity prices on Yahoo finance [duplicate]
I tried looking for some decent way to get stock data for general commodities.
I went looking on Yahoo Finance and found https://nz.finance.yahoo.com/q?p=finance.yahoo.com&s=GCN14.CMX.
But this ...
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Free stock split history data source?
Does anyone know of a reliable (free) source of historical stock split information? There's a YQL api for pulling down 'key stats' on a symbol but it only contains the LastSplitDate. Adjusted close ...
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Google historical prices on Yahoo Finance before split?
I recently noticed that the price history for Google (GOOG) on Yahoo Finance only goes back to when the stock split. For a while I thought they just hadn't gotten around to adjusting the close prices ...
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source for yahoo finance equities volume traded
I am looking at some academic studies regarding volume of stock traded. Yahoo Finance is used as the data source for volume. Does anyone know where the volume figure comes from? Is it a compilation ...
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Downloading Quotes in CSV format from Yahoo Finance - Beta symbol?
By using http://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=STOCKNAME&f=I am able to download a CSV file, does anyone know what the symbol for beta is? It should go after <...
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Yahoo Finance API
Have been looking for ways to down load stock price data using Yahoo Finance on Chinese Stocks. Symbol that ends with .SS = stock listed in Shanghai, .zz = stock listed in Shenzhen
This link http://...
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Open source equity/bond index data
I have been using the tseries package of R (get.hist.quote) to get historical quotes for various indices from yahoo finance. I am interested in DAX, VDAX, EB.REXX ...
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download intra day data [duplicate]
I am trying to download intra day stock data for some 7000 symbols using google url :
https://www.google.com/finance/getprices?q=RELIANCE&x=NSE&i=60&p=5d&f=d,c,o,h,l&df=cpct&...
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fetch from yahoo! finance database - varying number of ticks
To test a model with real-life data, I used the fetch-function in matlab to connect to the database of yahoo! finance. My code to try and get 7 different assets' returns is the following:
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Daily returns using adjusted close
I want to chart the daily returns of a stock, and I'm using Yahoo finance data to download historic data. I was told to use Adjusted Close, but there seems to be an issue with this.
For ANTO.L, you ...
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In Yahoo! Finance, what determines the number of decimals for a stock/index quote?
In Yahoo! Finance, we see the following quotes among others:
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How to assign equity analyst recommendations to a common, numeric scale?
Yahoo finance conveniently provides historic ratings from a number of analysts. Unfortunately, each analyst seems to use a different scale: buy/hold/sell, perform/outperform/neutral, overweight/equal ...
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What API methods are there to determine a company's market cap?
I'm wondering what API methods there are to determine a company's market cap, i.e. (number of shares issued) * (price per share).
I know IQfeed and perhaps Yahoo will do this - does anyone know of ...
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Any known bugs with Yahoo Finance adjusted close data ?
Yahoo Finance allows you to download tables of their daily historical stock price data.
The data includes an adjusted closing price that I thought I might use to calculate daily log returns as a ...
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