Sources of Data to Use in Valuesoft

There are many sources of data that can be used with Valuesoft functions in Excel.

Free Data

The examples of Valuesoft templates describe some sources of free data and the way the data can be used.

Sometimes the same site provides data for companies listed on the main exchanges in other countries by applying a prefix or a suffix to the ticker symbol. For example, on MoneyCentral the symbol ARP gives data for the US company American Reprographics Co while the symbol AU:ARP gives data for the Australian company ARB Corporation. On the Yahoo finance site and the Google finance site, the symbol for ARB corporation is ARP.AX.

Instead od modifying the compnay symbol, you can use sites such as Yahoo which have special web sites for other couintries

The following is a general list of main sources of financial data.

Yahoo: Yahoo has finance sites for most developed countries. For example, the link for the US is: http://finance.yahoo.com/, the link for Canada is http://ca.finance.yahoo.com/,and the link for Australia is: http://au.finance.yahoo.com/

MoneyCentral: This collection of sites is run by Microsoft. The link for the US is: http://moneycentral.msn.com/, the link for Canada is http://money.ca.msn.com/ and the link for the UK is: http://money.uk.msn.com/ In Australia, Microsoft combines with PBL media to manage the finance site: http://money.ninemsn.com.au/

Google: The link for the Google's main finance site is: http://www.google.com/finance

TheStreet: The link for this site is http://www.cnbc.com. It is site is run by TheStreet.com, Inc, an independent company that sources its data from a number of separate data suppliers including Interactive Data and Morningstar

CNBC: The link for this site is http://www.cnbc.com It is run by CNBC a satellite and cable television business news channel.

Commercial Data

The data from Valueline can be exported to a spreadsheet.