[R-SIG-Finance] Equities Data

[Ralph Vince]

Hi Jeff,

Yes, but they only offer dividends not splits. I;ve been working off
of sites like this and looking to automate it somehow, hopefully
through R.


On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 12:15 PM, Jeff Ryan <jeff.a.ryan at gmail.com> wrote:
> You might be able to use this:
>
> http://www.dividend.com/ex-dividend-dates.php
>
> Jeff
>
> On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Ralph Vince <rvince99 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Yes, I'm willing to pay for it, but I would like to get it
>> automatically into a format I can parse and use, not even sure where
>> that exists at the moment. (Doesn't Yahoo Finance get their data from
>> CSI?) Ralph Vince
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 12:04 PM, G See <gsee000 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Brian G. Peterson <brian at braverock.com> wrote:
>>>> The only way I know of to get out of maintaining it by hand is to pay for
>>>> data.
>>>>
>>>> On the GUI side, Bloomberg, Factset, and Reuters have all been mentioned
>>>> already I think.  Rbbg of course talks to Bloomberg.
>>>>
>>>> On the other vendor side, I think Interactive Brokers has this data, and it
>>>> may be available via the IBrokers package if it is available via the IB API.
>>>> Additional vendors, such as CSIdata, tickdata.com, Reuters, CRSP, Telekurs,
>>>> etc all sell this data, at varying prices and quality.
>>>
>>> Interactive Brokers does provide an "Upcoming Dividend Schedule" for
>>> stocks, but it is a rough estimate that is often wrong.  Also, I don't
>>> think you can get it from their API (although if someone knows how,
>>> please speak up).  I think you have to go into the GUI, right-click a
>>> stock and select Dividend Schedule.
>>>
>>> -Garrett
>>>
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