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GEnie's Closing Quotes Service
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Welcome to GEnie's Closing Quotes service featuring composite closing quotes,
trading ranges and volumes from the two most recent trading days. Included in
this service are more than 5,000 issues traded on the New York and American
Stock Exchanges as well as listed over-the-counter (OTC) securities traded on
the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) exchange.
More than 2,000 Mutual Funds are also represented in Closing Quotes. Quote
information provided for mutual funds includes net asset values (NAV) and
offering prices.
The information contained in GEnie's Closing Quotes service is provided by
Interactive Data Corporation (IDC), a division of Dun & Bradstreet. The
information available through Closing Quotes is the property of IDC and is
provided for YOUR PERSONAL USE ONLY. It may not be redistributed or
reproduced in any form without the express written consent of both IDC and
GEnie.
NEITHER GE, IDC NOR ANY OF THEIR SUPPLIERS MAKES ANY WARRANTY WITH RESPECT TO
THE CLOSING QUOTES SERVICE, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO,
IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
Retrieving Stock Quotes
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Select Item #3 - "Retrieve Closing Quotes" to retrieve the quotes you are
interested in. The system allows you to enter from one to thirty ticker
symbols at a time. If you wish to retrieve quotes for more than one security,
each ticker symbol must be separated with a comma. You can mix ticker symbols
for stocks and mutual funds in one request.
Depending upon the type of security, the information displayed will vary. For
example, if you entered the ticker symbol "ZZZ" for securities issued by Maru
C., Inc, the following information would be displayed:
Tick Description TP C Date High Low Close Vol 100s
ZZZ MARU C INC 04/11 73.500 72.375 72.750 13512
04/10 72.500 71.125 72.375 11335
While most of the information displayed is self explanatory, some have special
meanings which may be unique to Closing Quotes. The third column (labeled
"TP") indicates the security's "type". The type codes which may be displayed
in Closing Quotes are:
Code Description
---- -----------
[blank] Common Stock
CV Convertible
PR Preferred
RT Right
WI When Issued
WS Warrant
X Mutual Fund
In some cases information will also be displayed in the fourth column, labeled
"C". This indicates the "class" of stock or preferred issue the quote
represents. This field is most often used to distinguish between multiple
issues from a single company.
Some companies have more than one "preferred" issue. For example, if you
requested a quote for ticker symbol PE (for Philadelphia Electric), you would
receive closing quotes for their common stock and all preferred issues. Each
preferred class of stock will contain "PR" as the Type Code and a letter in
the "C" field indicating which preferred issue the quote represents.
Closing Quotes will automatically display ALL preferred issues or classes for
a given issuer. It is not necessary for you to specify which issue you want.
For example, entering the ticker symbol "WAN" provides both Class C and Class
B stock for Wang Laboratories.
Tick Description TP C Date High Low Close Vol 100s
WAN WANG LABS INC C 04/11 7.250 7.000 7.250 54
04/10 7.000 6.875 7.000 21
Tick Description TP C Date High Low Close Vol 100s
WAN WANG LABS INC B 04/11 4.250 4.125 4.125 1592
04/10 4.250 4.125 4.125 1548
Retrieving NASD "Bid/Ask" Quotes
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Closing Quotes includes trading information for NASD Bid/Ask issues. However,
because of the nature of these securities, the information displayed will be
somewhat different.
Instead of High, Low and Close - only Bid and Ask prices will be displayed.
Volume will be displayed as with "standard" stock issues. For example, a
quote for ABAE - American Body Armor Equipment - which is a NASD Bid/Ask issue
will look like this:
Tick Description TP C Date Bid Ask Vol 100s
ABAE AMERN BODY ARMOR EQUIP 04/09 6.500 6.750 53
04/08 6.750 6.875 20
Retrieving Mutual Fund Quotes
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The procedure for retrieving mutual fund quotes is exactly the same as for
retrieving stock quotes. The only difference is in the information which is
displayed.
All mutual funds will contain "X" as the Type Code and will provide only the
Net Asset Value (NAV) and the Offer Price for the fund. Since mutual funds
are priced only once - after the market closes - no trading ranges will be
provided.
If you retrieved a quote for Fidelity Magellan, the display would look like
this:
Tick Description TP C Date NAV Offer Prc
FMAGX FIDELITY MAGELLAN FD X 04/11 66.430 68.480
04/10 65.420 67.440