Re: FinancialData problems
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- Subject: [mg87565] Re: FinancialData problems
- From: Jean-Marc Gulliet <jeanmarc.gulliet at gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 03:31:40 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
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Donald DuBois wrote: > One of the examples in the Doc Center > > for FinancialData[] is > > FinancialData["^DJI", "Name"] > > which should return the > English language name for the DJI (Dow Jones Industrials). > > In the example in the Doc Center it returns > > "DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE I". > > which makes perfect sense. > > This example is under (for the FinancialData function): > > Scope | Names and Identifiers | Specifying Exchanges | > | Getting Names and Identifiers | Groups and Sectors | Other Financial Instruments > > But when I evaluate it I get > > Missing["NotAvailable"] > > instead of > > "DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE I". > > This has been happening since Sept. 2007 when I first > alerted Wolfram which they acknowledged was a bug. > > > There are plenty of other examples that don't work > as well with FinancialData such as > > > FinancialData["FMAGX","Name"] > > However, it still doesnâ??t work properly. > Have others noticed this problem? > Are there any clever work arounds? > > > Also, if I evaluate the Example in the Doc Center > > > Length[FinancialData["Exchanges"]] > > this should give the "total number of exchanges > supported" [according to the Doc Center]. > > I get 66 instead of what the documentation says > which is 85. Is this an indication that > Wolfram is pulling back from supporting FinancialData[] as originally conceived since the number of Exchanges that > are now available has gone from 85 to 66? Don, I am afraid this might be not of great help, but I got similar results when testing the expression on my system. In[1]:= FinancialData["^DJI", "Name"] Out[1]= Missing["NotAvailable"] In[2]:= FinancialData["FMAGX", "Name"] Out[2]= Missing["NotAvailable"] In[3]:= Length[FinancialData["Exchanges"]] Out[3]= 66 In[4]:= $Version Out[4]= "6.0 for Mac OS X x86 (64-bit) (February 7, 2008)" Regards, -- Jean-Marc