This tutorial covers excel macro which you can use to download historical data for multiple stock quotes. It is useful when you need to perform detailed technical analysis on stocks you wish to invest. Here source of the data is
Output of stocks downloader look like below. 
Table below shows a complete list of stock exchanges across world and corresponding suffix used for fetching stock quotes from Yahoo Finance.
Yahoo Finance.
In this excel macro, you have flexibility to play around with the following arguments -
PeriodYou can select the frequency of historical data for stocks - Daily, Weekly, Monthly. By "daily" it refers to every day's low, high and closing price along with volume. Weekly refers to prices at the start of each week (one entry for one week). Similary monthly corresponds to one record for a monthStarting DateDate on which you want historical data starts fromEnd DateDate on which you want historical data ends with.- Allows specifying multiple stocks. Data to be appended once data for first stock completes.
Reason for data for 15th February is not included because stocks specified in the input are US stocks and Nasdaq stock market was closed on that day on eve of Presidents' Day in US. Data for 22nd February was excluded because End Date argument is not inclusive of the date. If you want data for 22nd February, specify 23rd February in the end date argument.
Fetch Historical Data for Non US Stocks
For US Stocks Yahoo Finance does not require any suffix added in symbols or tickers. You can use it directly. However suffix needs to be entered for non US stocks. See some of the examples below.
| Canadian Stocks | Indian Stocks |
|---|---|
| DOL.TO | RELIANCE.NS |
| ENGH.TO | TCS.NS |
| AC.TO | HCLTECH.NS |
| Country | Market | Suffix |
|---|---|---|
| Argentina | Buenos Aires Stock Exchange (BYMA) | .BA |
| Austria | Vienna Stock Exchange | .VI |
| Australia | Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) | .AX |
| Belgium | Euronext Brussels | .BR |
| Brazil | Sao Paolo Stock Exchange (BOVESPA) | .SA |
| Canada | Canadian Securities Exchange | .CN |
| Canada | NEO Exchange | .NE |
| Canada | Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) | .TO |
| Canada | TSX Venture Exchange (TSXV) | .V |
| Chile | Santiago Stock Exchange | .SN |
| China | Shanghai Stock Exchange | .SS |
| China | Shenzhen Stock Exchange | .SZ |
| Czech Republic | Prague Stock Exchange Index | .PR |
| Denmark | Nasdaq OMX Copenhagen | .CO |
| Egypt | Egyptian Exchange Index (EGID) | .CA |
| Estonia | Nasdaq OMX Tallinn | .TL |
| Europe | Euronext | .NX |
| Finland | Nasdaq OMX Helsinki | .HE |
| France | Euronext Paris | .PA |
| Germany | Berlin Stock Exchange | .BE |
| Germany | Bremen Stock Exchange | .BM |
| Germany | Dusseldorf Stock Exchange | .DU |
| Germany | Frankfurt Stock Exchange | .F |
| Germany | Hamburg Stock Exchange | .HM |
| Germany | Hanover Stock Exchange | .HA |
| Germany | Munich Stock Exchange | .MU |
| Germany | Stuttgart Stock Exchange | .SG |
| Germany | Deutsche Boerse XETRA | .DE |
| Greece | Athens Stock Exchange (ATHEX) | .AT |
| Hong Kong | Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEX)*** | .HK |
| Hungary | Budapest Stock Exchange | .BD |
| Iceland | Nasdaq OMX Iceland | .IC |
| India | Bombay Stock Exchange | .BO |
| India | National Stock Exchange of India | .NS |
| Indonesia | Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) | .JK |
| Ireland | Euronext Dublin | .IR |
| Israel | Tel Aviv Stock Exchange | .TA |
| Italy | EuroTLX | .TI |
| Italy | Italian Stock Exchange | .MI |
| Japan | Tokyo Stock Exchange | .T |
| Latvia | Nasdaq OMX Riga | .RG |
| Lithuania | Nasdaq OMX Vilnius | .VS |
| Malaysia | Malaysian Stock Exchange | .KL |
| Mexico | Mexico Stock Exchange (BMV) | .MX |
| Netherlands | Euronext Amsterdam | .AS |
| New Zealand | New Zealand Stock Exchange (NZX) | .NZ |
| Norway | Oslo Stock Exchange | .OL |
| Portugal | Euronext Lisbon | .LS |
| Qatar | Qatar Stock Exchange | .QA |
| Russia | Moscow Exchange (MOEX) | .ME |
| Singapore | Singapore Stock Exchange (SGX) | .SI |
| South Africa | Johannesburg Stock Exchange | .JO |
| South Korea | Korea Stock Exchange | .KS |
| South Korea | KOSDAQ | .KQ |
| Spain | Madrid SE C.A.T.S. | .MC |
| Saudi Arabia | Saudi Stock Exchange (Tadawul) | .SAU |
| Sweden | Nasdaq OMX Stockholm | .ST |
| Switzerland | Swiss Exchange (SIX) | .SW |
| Taiwan | Taiwan OTC Exchange | .TWO |
| Taiwan | Taiwan Stock Exchange (TWSE) | .TW |
| Thailand | Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) | .BK |
| Turkey | Borsa İstanbul | .IS |
| United Kingdom | London Stock Exchange | .L |
| Venezuela | Caracas Stock Exchange | .CR |
About Author:
Deepanshu founded ListenData with a simple objective - Make analytics easy to understand and follow. He has over 10 years of experience in data science. During his tenure, he has worked with global clients in various domains like Banking, Insurance, Private Equity, Telecom and Human Resource.
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