Category: stock returns
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Plotting stock prices and returns
In this tutorial, we’ll teach you how to plot time series of stock prices and returns using Excel. We’ll explain how to interpret these plots as well. We’ve chosen to examine Microsoft (MSFT) and Kellogg (K) shares for the 30-year period between January 1, 1990 and January 1, 2020. The data is obtained from Yahoo! Finance…
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Downloading stock price data from Yahoo! Finance
In this tutorial, we will teach you how to download historical stock price data from Yahoo! Finance. Yahoo! Finance is a great source for obtaining historical data on financial securities such as stocks, stock market indices (e.g., S&P 500, Dow Jones Industrial Average, FTSE 100), and ETFs. It has global coverage, and the data is free…
