Tuesday, November 15, 2005

Notes on Yahoo finance historical prices

The adj close is the actual close multiplied by split multiplier and dividend multiplier
See following page for explanation.
http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/fin/quote/quote-12.html

IMPORTANT NOTE: Historical dividend is also adjusted by split multiplier and dividend multiplier

CSV file for historical price can be retrieved by (SPY as example)
http://ichart.finance.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=SPY

HTML page for historical price
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/hp?s=SPY

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