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Python for Finance

The focus of this chapter will be on how to retrieve economic, finance, and accounting related data, especially public data. For example, Yahoo Finance offers rich data, such as historical trading price, current price, option data, annual and quarterly financial statements, and bond data. Such publicly available data could be used to estimate β (market risk), volatility (total risk), Sharpe ratio, Jensen's alpha, Treynor ratio, liquidity, transaction costs, and conduct financial statement analysis (ratio analysis) and performance evaluation. In future chapters, the topics mentioned would be discussed in more detail. For the public data related to economics, finance, and accounting, many wonderful sources are available, see the following table:
Name |
Data types |
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Yahoo Finance |
Historical price, annual and quarterly financial statements, and so on |
Google Finance |
Current, historical trading prices |
Federal Reserve Economic Data |
Interest rates, rates... |
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