Today, this article will look at historical stock prices. If we're looking at this information alone, Yahoo clearly stands way above Google. I'd hate to admit it as I'm a huge google fan. I'm using alot of the google products that are freely available: google maps, picasa web albums, google sites, blogger, google books. Thats just naming a few. I'm not so impressed with yahoo. So you can take my word for it that I am totally not biased when I say yahoo has the better historical data over google finance.
First of all, you need to know what stock you're interested in. For example sake, lets look at IBM. IBM is a large reputable company thats been around for a while now. Their stocks are highly liquid, and issue dividends every once in a while. IBM's ticker symbol is simple. Its "IBM". So lets search yahoo finance for IBM. It gives you this site: http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=ibm
Click on 'Historical Prices' on the left hand side of the screen.
Now Enter your start and end date ranges in the text boxes on the screen.
Select the 'Daily' checkbox to download daily historical stock prices.
Click on 'Get Prices'.
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