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March 14

An Inquiry about some statistical data

I am a PhD student and I'm working on a research and my study is about the impact of exchange rate changes on a sample of companies before and after the breakdown of Bretton Woods (1972), hence, part of my sample is related to at least a ten year period before 1972 and a ten to twelve year period after 1972. I would like to get a directory of companies which are listed in the major stock exchanges of five countries namely the United States, Canada, Germany, Japan and the UK since 1960. Having gone through a number of databases as well as making queries of data from major stock exchanges of the mentioned counties, I have not been unable to get such data.

I would be very thankful if anyone could help me to figure out where I can have access to such data Aligenius (talk) 14:57, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

Why not just use stock tables from the period? The Wall Street Journal, or really any major newspaper, during this period printed daily reports of trading in the stock of every company listed on a major exchange in the U.S. I suspect that newspapers in other countries did the same thing. John M Baker (talk) 15:17, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

On the first business day of every year, usually January 2nd or 3rd, The Wall Street Journal publishes a Year-End Review of Markets and Finance with a pretty complete listing of all the significant stocks & bonds traded on the major exchanges, and many of those traded on regional ones (plus a sample of foreign and commodity markets) . I'm sure you are aware there is no single U.S. Stock Exchange; not only are there the New York and American Stock Exchanges, plus NASDAQ, but into the 1970's there was significant trading in a non-identical set of securities (e.g. state or regional banks and utilities) on the regional exchanges like the Philadelphia-Baltimore-Washington Stock Exchange and the Pacific Stock Exchange. —— Shakescene (talk) 11:25, 15 March 2013 (UTC)