[R-SIG-Finance] Finance Data

[Joshua Ulrich]

Malcolm,

What's quoted in the press is usually the Blue Chip Forecasts:
http://www.aspenpublishers.com/blue-chip-publications.htm

Best,
Josh
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On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 3:40 AM, malcolm
Crouch<malcolm.croucher at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi ,
>
> Thanks for this , this has been a great help . I found exactly what I am
> looking for .
> However I was wondering the following : I notice in the financial press that
> with each figure there is an estimate attached :
>
> e.g Unemployment expected 9.45 currently at 9.4 .
>
> Does  anyone know of a reliable place to get estimates ?
>
> Regards
>
> Malcolm
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 8:52 PM, Jeff Ryan <jeff.a.ryan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Try FRED
>>
>> http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/search/vehicle/1
>> http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/search/retail+sales/1
>>
>> library(quantmod)
>> > getSymbols("RETAIL", src="FRED")
>> [1] "RETAIL"
>> > head(RETAIL)
>>           RETAIL
>> 1947-01-01   9583
>> 1947-02-01   9852
>> 1947-03-01   9769
>> 1947-04-01   9947
>> 1947-05-01  10061
>> 1947-06-01  10146
>> >
>>
>> HTH
>> Jeff
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 1:30 PM, malcolm
>> Crouch<malcolm.croucher at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi ,
>> >
>> > I am looking for US GDP Figures , non-pharm Payrolls , retail sales ,
>> motor
>> > vehicle sales ect.
>> >
>> > Does anyone know where i can find data like that ?
>> >
>> > i have found :
>> >
>> > http://www.bls.gov/data/#employment    -  Labour Data
>> > http://www.economicindicators.gov/  - Some Data
>> > http://www.bea.gov/   -- Economic Data
>> >
>> > im still struggling to find a csv or excel data source for payrolls Motor
>> > Vehicle Sales and Retail Sales.
>> >
>> > Regards
>> >
>> > Malcolm
>> >
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