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What will I find in Markets Data?
FT.com carries exceptionally thorough coverage of international markets performance data, plus tools to help you analyse and track markets and investments. All content within this section is available free of charge (although broker reports can also be purchased via Reuters Research in the Analysts section of Companies Research ). Some tools and content require free registration.
Click below to learn more about the following pages and sections
- Markets Data
- Companies Research (including Quotes and Interactive Charting)
- World Equities
- Currencies
- Commodities & Futures
- Bonds & Rates
- Research Data Archive
- Market Alerts
- Portfolio
Markets Data
The overview / home page for FT.com’s markets data section provides an introduction to the coverage, plus latest data and charts for equity, commodity and currencies, latest FT markets news and links into further content.
Companies Research (including Quotes)
1. Quote lookup
The Quotes box in the header throughout the FT.com site is the look-up for share prices and more for stocks in over 30 countries, as well as funds covered by the FT Managed Funds service.
Start to enter the company or fund name, or the symbol, and the system will present and refine results as you type. You can select the item you want as soon as it appears. Alternatively, enter the full ticker symbol (or MEXID for a fund) and go straight to the record.
If you don’t find the exact match through the quotes box, use the advanced name search on the companies research page.
2. Companies Research and Quotes content
Look up companies and shares via the Quotes box or the Companies Research page. For each company / stock on FT.com, up to five top-level sections are provided, under Performance, News, Analysts, Business Profile and Financials tabs:-
Performance gives price, volume, fundamentals, latest FT news, “SmartText” commentary and market comparisons for stocks traded on exchanges in over 30 countries. Most quotes are updated throughout the trading day, on a 20 minute delay. Here you can change the chart view shown on this page and click through to the in-depth Interactive Charting tool, which also provides historic prices and volumes.
News shows related FT articles, where available, plus the company announcements carried on the FT CAS service and translated article abstracts from FT’s European press monitoring service.
Analysts gives access both to Earnings & Recommendations, from the Reuters Estimates service, with analysts estimates and consensus forecasts, based on data collected from over 600 brokers worldwide, plus both free and pay-per-view downloads of relevant Reuters Analyst Reports
Business Profile and Financials tabs have several underlying views and pages, giving business descriptions, officers, peer comparisons, and up to 5 years of interim and annual financials, for around 40,000 companies .
The companies/stocks that you most recently viewed are linked from the companies research overview page, which also provides general company data and news.
3. Interactive Charting
Click into a wide range of stock charting options from the Interactive charting link under the chart on the Performance page for any stock:
Pick the period to chart from one day through to ten years, or set your own custom range. Overlay events data – dividends, splits, etc – and FT news, as well as technical indicators. Compare to indices as well as (coming soon) peers, other selected stocks or shares in your portfolio.
Save your charts and/or your preferred settings for quick access.
World Equities
The world equities page displays the latest performance charts and FT news for American, European, South African and Asia-Pacific equities markets. Use the Market Finder to look up any of the hundreds of FTSE, Dow Jones, S&P, regional exchange and other index series available on FT.com
The country resesarch option takes you to dedicated pages for each of 34 markets – from Australia to the United States – giving key indices, news and gainers/losers.
Currencies
Continually updated data, displayed through the currency features and tools:-
- Interactive charts of major world currencies’ performance over time.
- Currency converter that gives instant exchange rate conversions between any of 30 world currencies.
- Currency macromaps, our unique visualisation tool for relative currency strength worldwide.
Commodities & Futures
Latest prices and FT news, with interactive charting options, for key commodities in the energy, agricultural and metals classes.
Click through into historic pricing and charting for individual commodity contracts.
Bonds & Rates
International capital markets coverage with FT news plus charts and tables based on international datasets of :-
- Benchmark bond yields
- Bond indices
- Government bond spreads
- Interbank lending rates
- Official interest rates
- Market rates
Research Data Archive
Easy access to the most recent as well as up to two or three years’ past markets data tables as published in the FT newspaper, covering equities, currencies, commodities, capital markets and personal finance.
These are provided in PDF file format and are normally available by 2 am London time on the day of print publication.
Alerts
Set up alerts to receive emails when your selected stocks rise above or fall below your choice of parameter. Options include price change (value or percentage), change relative to moving average, or benchmark comparisons. There is a quick set up link for price alerts on each company / share price page, or go to the main Alerts page for set up and management options (including vacation stops).
Summary email updates on your portfolios are also available.
Portfolio
Track the performance of your holdings; view news stories and key fundamentals related to your portfolio holdings. Key features include:-
- advanced valuation options including money-weighted return
- for multiple purchases of a stock, view overall holding return as well as for individual lot
- whole portfolio charting
- watchlist options
- cash positions in any currency
- automatic split / consolidation updating
- fully international: mix stocks from different countries in a single portfolio
- covers managed funds as well as equities
- optionally include your other assets eg property, art collection, etc
- your choice of valuation currency for the whole portfolio
- create multiple portfolios
- design your own custom views
- download to spreadsheet
- include benchmarks
- view FT news stories for your holdings
- sort holdings by column, eg by size, value, gain/loss
- email updates
See also our ‘How to’ guide to the FT.com portfolio.
