What free web services of company financial information are available
(if any)? The financial information includes market prices, financial
statements, and tax filings.

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Request for Question Clarification by pinkfreud-ga on 23 Dec 2004 16:46 PST

Are you already aware of Yahoo! Finance?

http://biz.yahoo.com/i/

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Clarification of Question by ascend-ga on 23 Dec 2004 17:09 PST

Thanks. I've used the yahoo! finance site before. I'm interested in
'web services' which expose the data in a published format for other
applications to consume. Basically, I'd like to find data like yahoo!
finance ? but where access is provided to the source/backend data.

Yahoo does make historical pricing available. You'd probably have to
write a small program to extract the data from it and import it into a
database. You may have a hard time finding pure data available for
free, sinces it can be expensive for these companies to access this
information.

If you're willing to pay, Reuters Kobra (i think that's the name) can
be used directly from Excel. What a life saver when we are working on
big finance projects at 2:00AM in B-School.

Thanks a lot! I'll look into the Reuters product.