NAME

Finance::YahooQuote - Get a stock quote from Yahoo!

SYNOPSIS

use Finance::YahooQuote;
@quote = getonequote $symbol;	# Get a quote for a single symbol
@quotes = getquote @symbols;	# Get quotes for a bunch of symbols

DESCRIPTION

This module gets stock quotes from Yahoo! Finance. The getonequote function will return a quote for a single stock symbol, while the getquote function will return a quote for each of the stock symbols passed to it. The return value of getonequote is an array, with the following elements:

0 Symbol
1 Company Name
2 Last Price
3 Last Trade Date
4 Last Trade Time
5 Change
6 Percent Change
7 Volume
8 Average Daily Vol
9 Bid
10 Ask
11 Previous Close
12 Today's Open
13 Day's Range
14 52-Week Range
15 Earnings per Share
16 P/E Ratio
17 Dividend Pay Rate
18 Dividend per Share
19 Dividend Yield
20 Market Capitalization

The getquote function returns an array of pointers to arrays with the above structure.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright 1998, Dj Padzensky

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

The information that you obtain with this library may be copyrighted by Yahoo! Inc., and is governed by their usage license. See http://www.yahoo.com/docs/info/gen_disclaimer.html for more information.

AUTHOR

Dj Padzensky (djpadz@padz.net), PadzNet, Inc.

The Finance::YahooQuote home page can be found at http://www.padz.net/~djpadz/YahooQuote/