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Where can I find announcements of official GDP figures for the US and other countries?
Specifically, I'm looking at the Forex markets, and I'm waiting for today's US GDP figures. I'm keeping an eye on the financial papers, but where can I find official sources of information, maybe as ...
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Why pay for end-of-day historical prices?
Recently I've started gathering some end-of-day (EOD) prices data for my testing. The first obvious place where such data is freely available is Yahoo Finance site. However I've noticed that many data ...
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Where can I find quarterly earnings-per-share data for the major U.S. market indices?
Where (on what website) can I find last few years' worth of quarterly earnings-per-share for the Russell 3000? and the Dow?
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Are there any market data providers that provide a query language?
Like SQL, for example, but it doesn't have to be the same syntax. For example, I might want to query "which stocks on the NYSE had the greatest 1-hour price changes today?"
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Who decides, and how, each year's increase in the Canada Pension Plan's YMPE value?
I know the Canada Pension Plan's Yearly Maximum Pensionable Earnings value (YMPE) is used for the following:
to determine the annual limit for payroll contributions to the Canada Pension Plan for ...
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Free source of corporate bond data?
Are there any free sources of corporate bond data?
More specifically, I would like information about new/upcoming issues (but if something like this exists for secondary markets I would be interested ...
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Database(s) of U.S. State AND Local Income Tax Rates?
I'm building a web app that will allow users to enter in their salaries, budgets, and savings plans to have a nice overview of what their financial future looks like. It'll be really pretty, but ...
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Real interest rate number in Word data bank is yearly or montly?
I am looking real interest rate from http://databank.worldbank.org. It shows me real interest rate for USA in 2010 was 3%. Does this mean money would increase 3% a month, or 3% a year?
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searching for historic exchange rate provider which meets this example data
I'm looking for a provider of historic exchange rates which fits a sample of exchange rates I have. My problem is that I have historic turnovers in GBP which I want to recalculate in EUR. All I know ...
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Are the sellers selling pre-IPO shares over these websites legitimate or fake?
The websites which are selling block of Facebook,Twitter and other companies are given below with the explanation which I think is fake and is not legitimate.However I have contacted both of the firms ...
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Open budgets in open data
I heard about the idea of open data which aim is to provide various data from governments.
Will data about the government budget (money gained mostly from taxpayers), finances, spendings be available ...
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Protocols and exchange formats for financial data
Wikipedia says:
Many banks in the US let customers use personal financial management
software to automatically download their bank statements in OFX
format.
Also, from ...
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Where do short-term traders look for the earliest stock related news?
While I'm no short term trader (or even a day trader), I imagine it is of high importance to these people that they hear about significant stock related news as early as possible. This would allow ...
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US Dollar Index: a) where are long term charts; also b) is it available on Google Finance by any chance?
Apparently the U.S. Dollar Index (DXY) has been around for ages since 1973, as this site points out. Also, I'm able to find it on Market Watch, albeit with only a 5 year graphing option.
I'm trying ...
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Are forward curves useful tools for trading decisions and which informations can be gathered from them?
According to "Investor Words" a forward curve is a graph of forward interest rate values over different time periods. A forward curve is a way of evaluating the time value of money.
How are those ...
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Getting live data from Yahoo! Finance for the National Stock Exchange of India (NSE)?
Refer to Streaming real-time stock quotes from Yahoo! Finance
Can I get real time data (from NSE India) using Yahoo! Finance API after subscribing to their service ?
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Where can I get real-time stock price data for National Stock Exchange of India (NSE)?
I am not sure if this is the right place to ask this, however I couldn't find a better place after searching Stack Exchange.
From where can I get tick data/real-time data for the National Stock ...
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Which online services offer logarithmic charts for equities such as index funds and ETFs?
The way Google Finance does the logarithmic representation is more a cry to absurdism, rather than logarithmic. So which services offer the logarithmic valuations, not just a bit axis moving? And it ...
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Who owns historical valuations about equity such as stocks and index funds?
Data, Data, Data. Who owns it?
Price is determined by demand and supply in a market but even if you crash or sky-rocket the price of some equity you don't really own that historical data but who ...
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Is there a source of airfare / airline price historical data for particular routes?
Is there a web site that gives you historic data for airfares on a particular route? So for example you punch in Round Trip JFK to Heathrow and it gives you the data for, let us say, the past year.
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Does Reuters provide the 4pm London Spot rate for currencies?
The 4pm London spot rate is supposedly the standard, but I'm having trouble finding out if that's what I'm getting from Reuters.
First, I understand that currencies don't have just one exchange rate, ...
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Where can I find the dividend history for a stock?
Where can I find the dividend history for a stock? Do you recommend any site where this information is easily accessible?
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Is there a list of upcoming Initial Public Offerings (IPOs), i.e. companies going public soon?
I've searched around on Google for a list of companies going public soon, but the results seem kind of shady; or at best they were loose predictions. Is there a list of companies that plan to go ...
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Sites to obtain historical chart of currency exchange rates?
Besides Yahoo Finance, is there any site where I can obtain history chart of currency exchange, for cross comparison purpose?
(As I realize British Pound against my country currency is the lowest ...
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Where can I find a breakdown of Google stock ownership?
I'm looking for a not too out of date source of information that lists who owns Google stock and how much they own. Is this available online somewhere?
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Source for information about Australia and U.S. real estate market rent-to-price ratios?
Would like to make a comparison between the two markets, in particular during the global financial crisis.
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Looking for online sources for historical currency data / exchange rates. Recommendations?
Is there any online service that provides (in any format whatsoever) historical foreign exchange rates, with bid/ask values? Intra-day would be preferred, but end-of-day is also of interest.
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Free service for automatic email stock alert when target price is met?
Suppose firm X is valued at 1. If it falls below 0.1, I want a stock alert to my arbitrary email. Is there some free internet site for it?
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How to map stock ticker symbols to ISIN (International Securities Identification Number)?
How can I can convert ticker symbols (which include information on the exchange) to an International Securities Identification Number (ISIN) (which contains no information on the exchange)?
Also I am ...
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Historical stock prices: Where to find free / low cost data for offline analysis?
I am looking for a free way to get a large amount of data on the prices of stocks. I am not a trader or anything like that so it wouldn't be worth it to pay for a service to give me stock prices. I ...
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Where can I find S&P 500 P/E ratios?
Before, I used the price-to-earnings numbers from spreadsheets published on Standard and Poor's website:
Current estimates:
www2.standardandpoors.com/spf/xls/index/SP500EPSEST.XLS
Historical values:
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What's the average nest egg (savings) for someone age 26? Website for comparison?
How much money should a 26 year old have saved up? Is there somewhere that I can compare against online?
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Where can I get a list of ticker symbols that have stock options?
I would like to examine the option chains of almost every stock that has options. Is there some sort of stock screener or application that can give me a list of the ticker symbols that have options?
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Looking for RSS feed of Certificate of Deposit rates
One of the things I like to do is have Certificates of Deposits (CD). I was able to get a 1% rate at US bank some time ago with a 1-month rollover. However, CD rates are constantly shifting, meaning ...
