Hello,
Perhaps someone knows the answer to this question?  I am trying to
find data that I can download into excel.  I believe it exists for
free but if not for free then I am willing to pay a service to gain
access to the data.  Therefore, the answer to this question is a web
address and some directions (for example, go to https//www.name.com
and then go to this page and take that action).

The data I am looking for is monthly historical price for the last 10 years for:
1/ US 10-year treasury bonds
2/ US Investment Grade Corporate bond index or mutual fund
3/ US General corporate bond index or mutual fund

A full answer will include all three types and list the name of the
web addresses plus directions for how to access the data.  Once I have
accessed the data then I will pay your "finders fee".  Or, if easier
you can paste in the data into your Google Answer reply.  Each series
of return numbers will only be 2 columns wide (month end date and
closing price).  That is it!  Three serirs of 2 columns with approx
120 rows in each series.  So, a single row of data should look like
the following (6/1/1999 93.11) so that there is only one space between
the date and the return or it can be comma seperated (6/1/1999,93.11).
 If you paste in the data then please tell me the source

I am working on my thesis and this is the only information remaining
that I need for my portfolio theory analysis.  Your help would be much
appreciated.

Many thanks and Regards,
Mike

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Request for Question Clarification by elmarto-ga on 04 Sep 2006 11:31 PDT

Hello!
I was able to find the following series for free:

US 10-year Treasury Bonds (Monthly since 1955)
Corporate AAA Bond Yield (Moody's) (Monthly since 1920)
Corporate BAA Bond Yield (Moody's) (Monthly since 1920)

There's also daily data from December 1996 on a basket of Investment
Grade bonds, but the data would need some manipulation in order to be
useful to you. Here's the link:
http://averages.dowjones.com/mdsidx/?event=showCorpBond

Finally, I was unable to locate any free source for a General
Corporate Bond index. The only series I found for this is available
from Global Financial Data, and costs $100-$200. The link is:
https://www.globalfinancialdata.com/index.php3?action=detailedinfo&id=3319#metadata

Please let me know if this is what you were looking for.

Best regards,
elmarto

can you give me a site, where i can find prices of T-bonds and T-bils
for march 2005-2006, please