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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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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 interested in the other way round — given an ISIN…
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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 have a mathematics background and I would like to…
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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 providing companies sell this data, and not so…
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Where do web sites get foreign exchange currency rate / quote information?
There are many web sites which provide the exchange rates between currencies. Where do they obtain this information? Is there any authoritative source from which they get this data? For example, Google also provides this feature. Where does Google…
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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 them to respond before competing traders do.
But…
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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 does it own then? Do companies in some exchange own…
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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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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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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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S&P 500 - Current Constituent List
I'm getting different constituents from various places.
An Excel sheet from the S&P website indicates 498 constituents in the S&P 500:
Link to Excel Sheet on the S&P website, look at the "Issues" tab . However, I can't ascertain if this is the…
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Where can I download all stock symbols of all companies "currently listed" and "delisted" as of today?
I am in process of of downloading historical stock data from few sources I have gathered. However, all of them require me to provide stock symbol.
I want to download data for all companies. In order to download this data -
Where can I find list…
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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 they're released? I'm also interested in any other…
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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, since they're not centrally cleared. So…
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Getting (historical) Standard & Poor Stock Guides
Chapter 15 of The Intelligent Investor mentions S&P publishes (as of the 1970s) a monthly Stock Guide. Is this still a worthwhile resource? What's the best way to get access to this guide, preferably without paying for it? I currently use Scottrade…
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