NAME¶
Finance::Quote::FTfunds - Obtain UK Unit Trust quotes from FT.com (Financial
Times).
SYNOPSIS¶
$q = Finance::Quote->new;
%info = Finance::Quote->fetch("ftfunds","<isin> ..."); # Only query FT.com using ISINs
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 ISIN code, a 12 character alphanumeric code.
Although the web site also allows searching by fund name, this version of
Finance::Quote::FTfunds only implements ISIN lookup. To determine the ISIN 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 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.