[R-SIG-Finance] Equities Data

[Ralph Vince]

THis looks pretty good, and could be parsed -- I just wish they had it
for cash dividends as well;
http://biz.yahoo.com/c/s.html
Ralph Vince

On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 1:44 PM, Ralph Vince <rvince99 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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