1stmilliondollar.net » indexes http://1stmilliondollar.net A financial journey to our first million dollar Tue, 04 Jan 2011 00:39:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 How to Display Country Stock Index on Google Docs? http://1stmilliondollar.net/2010/02/how-to-display-country-stock-index-on-google-docs/ http://1stmilliondollar.net/2010/02/how-to-display-country-stock-index-on-google-docs/#comments Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:19:39 +0000 1stmilliondollar http://1stmilliondollar.net/2010/02/how-to-display-country-stock-index-on-google-docs/ Our previous posting discusses on how to display stock prices on Google Docs. How can we display stock indexes, such as S&P 500? We might need them if we want to compare our portfolio with those indexes, don’t we?

Here is the trick: you can just type the same function as you normally use for stocks, i.e. “=GoogleFinance(index)”. Type without quotes. For example, to display the current price of S&P 500 index, type “=GoogleFinance(“.INX”)”.

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How do we find the ticker symbol of popular indexes? There are a couple of places on the Internet that has this information. Yahoo! Finance provides them on their home page; but they use a different convention with Google Finance. Instead of prefixing the ticker with dot, they use ^ symbol.

Here is the list of popular stock indexes around the world.

  • S&P 500 Index: .INX
  • Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) Index: .DJI
  • Nasdaq Composite Index: .IXIC
  • S&P/TSX Composite Index: .GSPTSE
  • FTSE 100 Index: .FTSE
  • Hang Seng Index: .HSI
  • Nikkei 225 Index: .N225
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