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Conference nyoss1::market_investing

Title:Market Investing
Moderator:2155::michaud
Created:Thu Jan 23 1992
Last Modified:Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1060
Total number of notes:10477

1021.0. "Data sources" by TELEM::HOLMES () Mon Aug 19 1996 17:19

    Iv'e been looking thru alot of www pages, alot of stock info.

    Question is, who is, or is there a true official source for the
    market information ?  Each exchange, Dow Jones, S&P ?

    Thanks,
    Bill

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1021.1Some of eachEVMS::HALLYBFish have no concept of fireTue Aug 20 1996 13:1211
    By "market information" you appear to mean the ticker price/volume
    data. This is the property of each exchange, and they all sell the
    real-time traffic and make a lot of money at it.
    
    What you read in the papers for a stock price is the NYSE Composite,
    meaning the publisher combines the data from all exchanges on which a
    NYSE stock trades (e.g., DEC trades on the Pacific exchange are
    included there, even though the Pacific exchange is not the New york
    Stock Exchange).
    
      John
1021.2Online Databases?JOKUR::FALKOFThu Mar 20 1997 11:256
    Are there any online historical databases that contain data up to 10 or
    even 15 years ago? I need to research some stocks that go back about
    that far, and a trip to my local library to review WSJ microfilm will
    take a lot longer than an online jaunt. Thanks for any pointers.
    
    ERIC
1021.3BEGIN::ROTITHORThu Mar 20 1997 14:443
This kind of data is sold on cd-roms:
see:
http://www.prophetdata.com/stocks/sdcdrom.htm
Most on line sources that allow free charting keep data for at most 5-6 years.
1021.4All the data you ever wanted ...CONSLT::HITZGeorge Hitz DTN:223-3408 W1DAThu Mar 20 1997 14:5212

	Try this:   investor.msn.com/charts/charts.asp

	After selecting the stock of interest, click on 
	Preferences to select the dates of interest.

	Output available as a chart or as high/low/close
	data

	GEHjr

1021.5BEGIN::ROTITHORThu Mar 20 1997 15:002
microsoft investors keeps a maximum of 5 years of data so it may not be very
useful if .2 is looking beyond that.
1021.6Depends ...CONSLT::HITZGeorge Hitz DTN:223-3408 W1DAThu Mar 20 1997 15:2610
	

	I just looked up IBM and the data goes back to 1962,  DEC (sic)
	only goes back to about 1976.

	Guess it depends on what you are looking up.

	GEHjr

1021.7JOKUR::FALKOFThu Mar 20 1997 16:365
    George (in .4), Thanks for the pointer. It gives me some of what I am
    looking for.
    
    73,
    ERIC