stockquote currently queries Yahoo's Finance API for ticker symbol historical values. fm, fd, fy stand for first month, first day, first year respectively, are numeric and tell stockquote the start date of the time series you want. Similarly lm, ld, ly are numeric and stand for last month, last day, last year respectively and tell stockquote the end date of the time series. frequency may be one of: d, w, m meaning: daily, weekly, monthly.
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Software component provided by Boston College Department of Economics in its series Statistical Software Components with number
S456990.
Size: Programming language: Stata Requires: Stata version 9 Date of creation: 22 Sep 2008 Date of revision:
30 Dec 2008 Handle: RePEc:boc:bocode:s456990
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