Bloomberg historical prices

[OnYourOwn]

Not able to retrieve prices via Bloomberg Historical prices on some indexes. Can go to the Bloomberg site and use symbol and get quote.

Example: Not working: LBUSTRUU:IND

Example: Working: SPX:IND

The not working quotes worked in the past. The Bloomberg quotes worked in the past.

In general, it appears indexes by IShares (Barclay) are not working.

[Mark]

Hi OnYourOwn,

If you go to Bloomberg's website with your browser, and look up these quotes, they report that the non-working sample you gave is not available. Use your browser and go here:

http://www.bloomberg.com/

Maybe they changed the ticker symbols for some of these quotes? You might try searching, and seeing if you can find a new ticker symbol for your non-working investments. If you can get a quote using your web browser, but not Fund Manager, please let me know such an example ticker symbol.

[paulk]

Has there been any follow up to this? Is it possible to get historical quotes for ^LBUSTRUU into Fund Manager?

[Mark]

Hi paulk,

I looked up that symbol on both Yahoo and Bloomberg, and they don't offer that symbol. It may be that they require a different symbol. You might visit each of these quote servers with your web browser, and try to look up the correct symbol. If you can get a quote using your web browser, then use that same symbol in Fund Manager, and you should be able to retrieve prices for it. In some cases these servers may have a current quote, but not historical quotes.