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downloading prices for Australian 90 day bank bills and 3 and 10, year bonds

3 messages · Stephen Choularton, Patrick Caldon, Guy Green

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Australian 90-Day Bank Bill prices are licensed by AFMA who started
charging fees on them as of about a year ago.  I don't think the
historical data is freely available anywhere now.

 

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From: r-sig-finance-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch
[mailto:r-sig-finance-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Stephen
Choularton
Sent: Thursday, 7 October 2010 4:26 PM
To: r-sig-finance at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: [R-SIG-Finance] downloading prices for Australian 90 day bank
bills and 3 and 10, year bonds



I have been trying to download these prices from Yahoo (of course they
may not keep them - does anyone know?) using all sorts of combinations
like IR.AX or IR.SFE or XTF or XTSYZ0.AX.  None of them work.

Can anyone point me to where I can find the correct symbols?
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Hi Stephen,

I don't think Yahoo has that information.  I've seen similar data for the US
(e.g. ^TYX, ^FVX, ^IRX for Treasury yields) but not for Australia.

You will find interest rate information on the Reserve Bank of Australia
website  http://www.rba.gov.au/statistics/tables/index.html#interest_rates
http://www.rba.gov.au/statistics/tables/index.html#interest_rates ,
downloadable as Excel files.

Guy
Stephen Choularton-3 wrote: