Document Type

Article

Article Version

Publisher's PDF

Publication Date

7-2008

Abstract

The focus is on making use of the web to get information about companies, using their stock symbols and YAHOO finance. We show how to map a stock ticker symbol into a company name gather statistics and derive new information. Our example shows how we extract the number of shares outstanding, total volume over a given time period and compute the turnover for the shares.

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Copyright 2008 Journal of Object Technology

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Publication Title

Journal of Object Technology

Published Citation

Douglas Lyon, “The Stock Statistics Parser”, Journal of Object Technology, Volume 7, no. 6 (July 2008), pp. 17-23

DOI

10.5381/jot.2008.7.6.c2

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