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This is the way data journalism should be done, kudos! > exchange rates are from Thomson Reuters Sorry to say I'm cynical enough to be surprised that they're
by panarky 7y ago
This is the way data journalism should be done, kudos!
> exchange rates are from Thomson Reuters
Sorry to say I'm cynical enough to be surprised that they're allowed to republish this data.
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- hnews_account_1 7y agoDaily currency and stock data is practically free in most cases. Anyway, this is historical data and not real time. I don't think Reuters gives a fuck beyond your payment for downloading the data in the first place. Now if you piped the real time API to somewhere else for a broadcast / simple multicast, Reuters may take issue with it.
- wyxuan 7y agoYeah almost every brokerage provides access to historical exchange rates
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- jcranmer 7y agoIn finance, the data is all public, and the algorithms are all secret. In oil, the data is all secret, and the algorithms are all public.
- emptybits 7y agoI smiled at this. But, as I'm sure you know, historic data is public in finance. There is good business in keeping current data private to sell it.