[R-sig-finance] Stock quotes data request

[Wojciech Slusarski]

Well, actually I am a student at the Poznan University of Economics in
Poznan and I need those data for my master thesis. Unfourtunately
there are only databases with historical quotes of Warsaw Stock
Exchange...

Best regards,
Wotjek

On 4/18/05, Vivek Rao <rvivekrao at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Wojtek,
> 
> Finance academics need to account for survivorship
> bias (returns of de-listed or otherwise disappearing
> stocks) in their studies, and they usually use data
> from CRSP http://gsbwww.uchicago.edu/research/crsp/ .
> It's probably not cheap, but if you have access to a
> local university with a finance department, they may
> subscribe.
> 
> Regards,
> Vivek Rao
> 
> --- Wojciech Slusarski <wojciech.slusarski at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Dear R users,
> >
> > I know that this is not the most apropriate mailing
> > list for such
> > request, but I really need help and I know, that
> > there are people
> > among you, who are probably able to help me. I have
> > to do an analysis
> > of a historical portfolio, which contains stocks,
> > that are not anymore
> > quoted on NYSE because those companies have been
> > acquired and I can't
> > find historical data on those stocks. I need closing
> > prices between
> > october 2000 and june 2004. Symbols of those stocks
> > at NYSE was AWE
> > (AT&T Wireless Inc.) and OSTR (SouthTrust Corp.). If
> > anyone has such
> > data, or knows where I can obtain them for free or
> > very reasonable
> > price, I will be very thankful for any info.
> >
> > Best regards
> > Wojtek
> >
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