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Re: FinancialData - how to find ticker symbols?

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• Subject: [mg122729] Re: FinancialData - how to find ticker symbols?
• From: "Chris Degnen" <degnen at cwgsy.net>
• Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2011 06:22:24 -0500 (EST)
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My method has been to Google the stock, e.g. Siemens, finding "SI".

Then look up possible tickers to find a match

possibles = FinancialData["*:SI", "Lookup"]

Check the names and exchanges

FinancialData[#, "Name"] & /@ possibles

FinancialData[#, "Exchange"] & /@ possibles

And finally check the quote matches what I expect:

FinancialData["NYSE:SI"]



Mikael wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I am trying to retrieve data for some European stocks using
> FinancialData but I am having difficulties to find the
> corresponding ticker symbols for the stocks I am interested in.
> 
> As an example suppose I am interested in German Siemnens or
> Swedish Volvo stocks. I understand that I can use 
> 
> FinancialData["Exchanges"] 
> 
> to find the names of exchanges but I have not been able to find
> the ticker symbol for those stocks I am looking for. 
> 
> I wonder also what would be the general way of doing this if I
> just know the name of a company and the country where it is traded.
> Thanks.
>