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Originally posted by Turbonium Know where I can find airline company stock prices? I went to Yahoo Finance, and got them as far back as the 1960s and such with a couple companies. Some airline companies do not have any historical pricing data at all though. On top of that, some of the companies I couldn't even find (such as Air India). I seriously need the historical stock prices of a few companies badly. And I need them to go as far back as the 60s in some cases, if possible.

Many airlines such as Air India, I believe, will not have listed stock prices because they are government owned or otherwise not publicly held companies.

You might try the Wall Street Journal's website or Barron's. Those tend to be the publications to go to when you are looking for finacial information. Financial times of London probably would have similar info.

I don;t know if their websites will have free access to the info though.

MrS

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Ok thanks.

To tell u the trust I am completely clueless in terms of business and economics. Like there's NYSE ones (New York Stock Exchange), OTC BB ones (whatever that is), NASDAQ, and a few others. I'm so confused.

a lot of reasons u might not be able to see historical stock price

* privately held
* company may have mergered or bought out
* changed their stock symbol

ru writing an econmic paper for school? or planning to invest in the airline sector?

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Well, looks like you are going to have to do a lot of research. But here are a coupe things that will help you.

Ticker symbols:
United = UAL
American = AMR

Some others:
http://finance.yahoo.com/l?s=Airlines&t=S&m=US
http://finance.yahoo.com/l?s=Airways&t=S&m=US
http://finance.yahoo.com/l?s=air&t=S&m=US

TWA got bought out by American in 2000 so you will not find any current info on them. ValuJet got bought by AirTran in the late 1990's so you will also find nothing current on them. PanAm went under in the early 1990's. All of those airlines had major incidents not long before their demise so it might give you an interesting correlation.

The airline you can probably do the most with is (sadly) United. They had the Chicago and Sioux City DC-10 crashes as well as a number of 737 crashes. You might also want to look into the United 747 flight that lost a crago door on route to Hawaii and ripped a hol in the side of the plane (landed safely but I believe 8 passengers/crew were sucked out the hole).

It might do you some good to check stock in the aircraft manufacturers (McDonnell-Douglas, Lockheed, Boeing, Airbus Industrie) to see how their stocks fluctuated to accentuate your point.

Good luck, I hope this helps.

MrS

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Originally posted by MrSquirrel Well, looks like you are going to have to do a lot of research. But here are a coupe things that will help you. Ticker symbols: United = UAL American = AMR Some others: http://finance.yahoo.com/l?s=Airlines&t=S&m=US http://finance.yahoo.com/l?s=Airways&t=S&m=US http://finance.yahoo.com/l?s=air&t=S&m=US TWA got bought out by American in 2000 so you will not find any current info on them. ValuJet got bought by AirTran in the late 1990's so you will also find nothing current on them. PanAm went under in the early 1990's. All of those airlines had major incidents not long before their demise so it might give you an interesting correlation. The airline you can probably do the most with is (sadly) United. They had the Chicago and Sioux City DC-10 crashes as well as a number of 737 crashes. You might also want to look into the United 747 flight that lost a crago door on route to Hawaii and ripped a hol in the side of the plane (landed safely but I believe 8 passengers/crew were sucked out the hole). It might do you some good to check stock in the aircraft manufacturers (McDonnell-Douglas, Lockheed, Boeing, Airbus Industrie) to see how their stocks fluctuated to accentuate your point. Good luck, I hope this helps. MrS

yea i've been finding everything I have on Yahoo Finance, but couldn't find a few that I wanted, which you mentioned, like PanAm. thanks for the advice, but I'll have to do most of this stuff tomorrow or later. I'll get back to you later on how I'm doing.

What's the difference between say a US market thing (like NYSE) and one outside of North America? Noob question, but I need to know.

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Originally posted by Turbonium What's the difference between say a US market thing (like NYSE) and one outside of North America? Noob question, but I need to know.

Basically nothing. The different markets around the world tend to trade different companies and they all work in their own currency. Every country with a free-market economy will have it's own stock market. It is just that the big US markets are more widely looked at because the US is the richest country.

The US actually has several different stock markets, each with their own listing requirements. It is just that the NYSE and the NASDAQ are the most well known.

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I can't find anything on United like you said. The situation is looking bleak.

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Originally posted by Turbonium I can't find anything on United like you said. The situation is looking bleak.

You can't find historical data on United?

Hmmm.


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