Re: Canadian/US exchange rate index

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In Reply to: Canadian/US exchange rate index posted by Wayne McCracken on November 17, 2005 at 21:18:27:

: I have not been active with my investments for some time. Now that I'm back at it there has been a change that I need to resolve.

: I live in Canada and track my investments in Canadian $. I used to have a Yahoo tracking index that was in Currency Settings to determine the equivalent US $.

: The Yahoo exchange rate index at the time was ^CCD. I appears to no longer exist and I can't find an equivalent that will provide historical data.

: Does anybody have a source of historical data that I can use?

: Thanks,
: Wayne

Hi Wayne,

I believe you want to use the new Yahoo symbol:

CADUSD=X

Unfortunately, they don't offer historical quotes for this symbol (like they used to for ^CCD), and I'm not aware of where you can get historical quotes on this exchange rate. FYI, you can get a listing of all the symbols for exchange rates on Yahoo at:

http://finance.yahoo.com/currency

and there is a relatively new tutorial on setting up Fund Manager to track multiple currencies at:

http://www.fundmanagersoftware.com/tutor_currency.html

Thanks,
Mark
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Mark Beiley
Fund Manager, portfolio management software for Windows 95/98/ME/NT/00/XP/2003

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