Re: The FinancialData Function
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- Subject: [mg89014] Re: The FinancialData Function
- From: Chris Degnen <degnen at cwgsy.net>
- Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 03:11:11 -0400 (EDT)
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Jason Cawley wrote:
>
> On oil prices, that is one in the coming soon category, but I can
> give you a solution that will work today, outside of FinancialData
> proper. Soon there won't be a need for these sorts of lines, that
> is sort of the idea. But for now, you can use -
>
> Daily spot oil prices from the Department of Energy, back to 1986
>
> dailyDOEOil = {#[[1, 1 ;; 3]], N[#[[2]]]} & /@ DeleteCases[
> Import[
> "http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/dnav/pet/xls/PET_PRI_SPT_S1_D.xls";,
> "XLS"][[2, 4 ;;, 1 ;; 2]], {"", ""} | {_, ""}];
>
That's great. Have you got one for gold? - for this kind of data:
http://www.lbma.org.uk/statistics_historic.htm