Finance::Quote::FTFundUser Contributed Perl DocumentFinance::Quote::FTFunds(3)NAME
Finance::Quote::ftfunds - Obtain UK Unit Trust quotes from FT.com
(Financial Times).
SYNOPSIS
$q = Finance::Quote->new;
%info = Finance::Quote->fetch("ftfunds","<mexid> ..."); # Only query FT.com using MEXIDs
%info = Finance::Quote->fetch("ukfunds","<isin>|<sedol>|<mexid>..."); # Failover to other sources
DESCRIPTION
This module fetches information from the Financial Times Funds service,
http://funds.ft.com. There are over 47,000 UK Unit Trusts and OEICs
quoted, as well as many Offshore Funds and Exhange Traded Funds (ETFs).
It converts any funds quoted in GBX (pence) to GBP, dividing the price
by 100 in the process.
Funds are identified by their MEXID code, a 4-6 letter code. Although
the web site also allows searching by SEDOL or ISIN codes, this version
of Finance::Quote::ftfunds only implements MEXID lookup. To determine
the MEXID for funds of interest to you, visit the funds.ft.com site and
use the flexible search facilities to identify the funds of interest.
The factsheet display for any given fund displays the MEXID, SEDOL and
ISIN along with other useful information.
This module is loaded by default on a Finance::Quote object. It's also
possible to load it explicity by placing "ftfunds" in the argument list
to Finance::Quote->new().
Information obtained by this module may be covered by funds.ft.com
terms and conditions See http://funds.ft.com/ and http://ft.com for
details.
Stocks And Indices
This module provides both the "ftfunds" and "ukfunds" fetch methods for
fetching UK and Offshore Unit Trusts and OEICs prices and other
information from funds.ft.com. Please use the "ukfunds" fetch method if
you wish to have failover with future sources for UK and Offshore Unit
Trusts and OEICs - the author has plans to develop Finance::Quote
modules for the London Stock Exchange and Morningstar unit trust
services. Using the "ftfunds" method will guarantee that your
information only comes from the funds.ft.com website.
LABELS RETURNED
The following labels may be returned by Finance::Quote::ftfunds :
name, currency, last, date, time, price, nav, source, method,
iso_date, net, p_change, success, errormsg.
SEE ALSO
Financial Times websites, http://ft.com and http://funds.ft.com
AUTHOR
Martin Sadler, <martinsadler@users.sourceforge.net>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Copyright (C) 2010 by Martin Sadler
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.10.1 or, at
your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.
perl v5.18.1 2013-09-27 Finance::Quote::FTFunds(3)
