30 Sep Collect price information for each stock from Yahoo! Finance (fi
Review Chapter 10 Data Case on page 362. You will work on items 1-6 and submit is as an excel spreadsheet (item #6 you can just type into the spreadsheet). Make certain you have all the details for the calculations so the instructor can follow your thoughts.
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Collect price information for each stock from Yahoo! Finance (finance.yahoo.com) as follows:
1. Enter the stock symbol. On the page for that stock, click “Historical Prices” on the left side of the page.
2. Enter the “start date” as March 1, 2013 and the “end date” as March 30, 2018 to cover the five-year period. Make sure you click “monthly” next to the date; the closing prices reported by Yahoo! will then be for the last day of each month.
3. After hitting “Get Prices,” scroll to the bottom of the first page and click “Download to Spreadsheet.” If you are asked if you want to open or save the file, click open.
4. Copy the entire spreadsheet, open Excel, and paste the Web data into a spreadsheet. Delete all the columns except the date and the adjusted close (the first and last columns).
5. Keep the Excel file open and go back to the Yahoo! Finance Web page and hit the back button. If you are asked if you want to save the data, click no.
6. When you return to the prices page, enter the next stock symbol and hit “Get Prices” again. Do not change the dates or frequency, but make sure you have the same dates for all the stocks you will download. Again, click “Download to Spreadsheet” and then open the file. Copy the last column, “Adj. Close,” paste it into the Excel file and change “Adj. Close” to the stock symbol. Make sure that the first and last prices are in the same rows as the first stock.
