This service offers a variety of data on the U.S. financial markets, four London exchanges, five European exchanges, and Canadian exchanges. Data ranges from 15 minute old prices to historical prices. In addition, portfolios can be tracked and trading-oriented business news can be followed. For no charge, one can receive five quotes per day, along with basic balance sheet information from most any sort of financial market. Additional services are fee-based (educational and site licenses are available). For instance, daily data from about 9,000 U.S. stocks since 1988, and daily data from U.S. commodity futures, foreign stocks and commodities contracts for the last few months, are available for a list price of $1.95 list per time series. Output can be retrieved in a number of ways, including email, ftp and the web. All users must be registered.
ftp://ftp.quote.com
http://www.quote.com/
Bill Goffe <bgoffe@whale.st.usm.edu>