Wednesday 2 April 2014

List of Free Market Historical Data Sources - For MATLAB, Excel, GRETL Econometrics

Where to get data for imports:

Sites with Summaries

  • scraperwiki.com (The community collects free data from the web and converts it into CSV, etc.)
  • wikiposit (The author collects free data from the web and converts it into CSV, etc.)
  • (recommendationQuandl (Successor of wikiposit: great full-text search, XLS, CSV, JSON export)
  • Matlab Trendy (The community collects free data from the web and converts it into plots)

Foreign Exchange, Forex, FX

Bitcoin

Debt/Interest Rates

  • historical time series
    • www.euribor-ebf.eu (Interest-Rates: “Euribor, Eonia”), Excel download
    • www.databank.rbs.com (Exchange Rate, Interest Rate, Consumer Price Inflation (CPI), Commodities: “Brent Spot, Henry Hub Spot, I P E Brent crude futures 1-pos, I P E Natural Gas Index, OPEC Fixing, US EIA Crude Imports, WTI Daily”), Excel download
    • www.ecb.int Interest-Rates and Government Bonds, web tables and partly Excel download
    • (German) www.boerse-duesseldorf.de (Bonds, daily), Website table only
    • (German )www.bundesbank.de German money and interest-rate statistics
  • current
    • (German) www.baadermarkets.de (Bonds)
    • (German) www.westlbmarkets.net (2012-07-12: Just went offline, hopefully online again soon), Swaps, Caps, Floors, CSV download
    • www.boerse-stuttgart.de (web table only) yield curves of bonds per rating and maturity
  • interest-rate derivatives
    • (new in the list) erstegroup.com Caps, Floors and Collars in form of Warrents

Stock / Indices

Investment Fonds

Energy

General Historical

  • (German) www.onvista.de (Stocks, Indices, Warrants, ETFs …, daily Quotes) Website
  • www.indexmundi.com World-wide econometric data and commodities
  • www.measuringworth.com US, UK, Japan, China with interest rates, GDP, inflation, gold and silver prices, cool long term, Website table only
  • www.historicalstatistics.org Many countries, especially Sweden, GDP, population and much more, links to other sources

Economic data

World
European Union
United Kingdom
United States

Live Cams

Buy Data:

(I did not try any of these, but they look interesting.)

Conclusion

Please leave a comment if you have other good sources or is any link breaks.
Thanks!