Re: FinancialData Function Not Working for Property "Members"
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- Subject: [mg116620] Re: FinancialData Function Not Working for Property "Members"
- From: Gregory Lypny <gregory.lypny at videotron.ca>
- Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 19:31:16 -0500 (EST)
Thank you for responding, Minshuan. Sadly, I still have the problem this morning. Both FinancialData["SP500", "Members=94] and FinancialData["SP100", "Members=94] return a long dash. Regards, Gregory On Mon, Feb 21, 2011, at 10:43 AM, MinHsuan Peng wrote: > Hi Gregory, > > I experienced the same thing with you but it works for me now. > Do you still see the problem? > > Minhsuan > On Feb 19, 2011, at 4:15 AM, Gregory Lypny wrote: > >> Hello anyone who uses the FinancialData function, >> >> I used to be able to get the members of the S&P500 and the S&P100 using >> >> FinancialData["SP500", "Members"] >> >> and then the ticker symbols to do analyses. But both yesterday and >> today, the function returns, what appears to be a dash or hyphen (-). = >> This also happens for industry members such as FinancialData["Books", >> "Members"] and FinancialData["Drugs", "Members"], where I used the >> examples in the built-in Help system, but foreign exchanges like >> Frankfurt work fine. >> >> Any thoughts on why this happens? I'm concerned because I have >> notebooks that I share with students and colleagues, and the analyses in= >> them can't be done if the ticker symbols are not picked up! >> >> Regards, >> >> Gregory >> >> >> >