[R-SIG-Finance] CUSIP Numbers

[aschmid1]

Fidelity customers can find CUSIPs (one at a time):
  http://activequote.fidelity.com/mmnet/SymLookup.phtml

On 01/21/2015 1:03 PM, James Ho wrote:
> Hi Anshul,
> 
> CUSIP's are owned by S&P so they aren't really public. Anyhow, you wont
> want to use those to backtest as they are driven by the underlying
> company's name (imagine what happens to a CUSIP when there is any M&A
> activity). MSCI Barra & S&P's Compustat's Point-In-Time ID's are built 
> for
> this type of backtesting. If you have access to BBID's that would be a
> decent alternative but looking for an open source identifier system is
> going to be tough. Good luck sir.
> 
> ~James
> 
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 7:45 AM, Anshul Pandey <anshul.bits at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Hi All,
>> 
>> I am moving some of my backtesting logics to CUSIP from tickers.
>> How do I download the CUSIP number of US stocks?
>> 
>> I know S&P has a paid subscription, but I read that CUSIP is publicly
>> available at a few resources.
>> 
>> Any suggestions are highly welcome.
>> 
>> Thanks
>> Anshul
>> 
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