Re: Hang Seng Index

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Posted by Mark on January 22, 2007 at 11:29:45:

In Reply to: Hang Seng Index posted by Tony Kovar on January 22, 2007 at 11:17:32:

: Mark,

:
: I am looking for a way to track the Hang Seng index in FM. I am new to doing anything other than Mutual funds so please excuse the dumb questions.

: On Yahoo, I found the index symbol to be ^HSCI.

: I can get a current price in FM on Yahoo but not any historical data. Any ideas??

: My objective is to track the main movements of the Hong Kong market, so if there is some other symbol or measure of that market that might work and retreive historical data as well I would use it.

: Thanks

: Tony

Hi Tony,

Unfortunately, Yahoo doesn't offer historical quotes on the indices. They only offer current quotes. Recently there was a post here where someone pointed out a site where you could download historical prices for indices, but I looked, and couldn't find it. (I should have bookmarked it...)

If you are able to find a source of historical quotes for this index, you can most likely "import" these, but you won't be able to "retrieve" historical quotes on this index from Yahoo.

Thanks,
Mark
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