Cuaght In The Web: Free Historic Stock Quotes!

[Warren Netz <netzw@pls.lib.ca.us>]

Ah, at last!  I've been looking for this for a long time.  While current
free stock quotes have been a staple on the Net for years, 
historic quotes traditionally have been something you've had to pay for 
(we use Dow Jones Interactive) until now.

There are actually two sites where you can now obtain historic quotes
at no cost.  The more extensive of the two is IQC, which supposedly
requires registration, but I was able to get quotes without registering.
For most stocks, IQC provides quotes back to 1968.  Here is a link direct
to their historic quotes dialog box:

                  www.iqc.com/quote/history.asp

The other site is Stock Tools, at www.stocktools.com.  No registration is
required here, but the quotes only go back a variable few number of years,
depending on the stock.


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