where do I find reliable, and free, time series for the prices of various comodities?
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Well, I put "historical prices" into a search engine and got plenty.  There's one at the link below?\n\nAre you interested in particular countries or time periods?  Or particular commodities?
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How about try these. \n\nhttp://www.sharebuilder.com/\n\nhttps://us.etrade.com/e/t/jumppage/viewjumppage?PageName=omnibus2&SC=NPNFG6D&tb=3847&WT.mc_id=CONPNFG6D\n\nhttp://www.tdameritrade.com/offer/special.html?a=kra\n\nhttp://www.scottrade.com/index.asp?supbid=68651
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there are many good sites like \nmoneycontrol.com\nndtvprofit.com\neconomictimes.com\nin addition to these most of portals like yahoo, indiatimes, rediff have good links to keep a pulse on commodity maket, stocks
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try the Consumer Price Index or other price statistics at http://www.bls.gov/data/home.htm
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Sort of.  If you have an account with any of the major exchanges, then they will provide the real-time tick data for you.  Of course, if you go to a bucket shop type place, they'll be streaming their own version of prices, but it's fairly accurate.  They usually just widen it out a bit.\n\nAs long as you keep the account open, you should get the data.  You don't have to make trades.
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go to finance.yahoo.com\n\nYou can pull up each index, and select the charts..\n\nFor fun, compare the charts to charts of interest rates, inflation, gold, crude oil, etc.
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www.morningstar.com might have some stuff. \nother then that... im a stock retard and i got a D in Econ. when i gratuated haha
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AVG and Advest\ngo to download.com to get them for free
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St Louis Fed keeps a large database. Although it does not have (as I remember "money market" rates, it does have rates for TBills, which is a very good proxy)\nhttp://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/categories/22/51\nAnother source for seeking economical and financial data is\nhttp://www.economy.com/freelunch/default.asp
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http://www.monex.com/monex/controller?pageid=prices
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try nseindia.com or bseindia.com or economictimes.com
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bigcharts.com\n\nclearstation.com
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Try this web site\n\nThey have a calulator to adjust prices to different years.
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You can use finance.yahoo.com, enter a stock symbol...and on the stock info page, there is a link on the side called "Historic Prices". That will give you all the prices since the company went public adjusted for splits.
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If you mean software to help you analyze stocks, the one I've used for 10 years or so is called Telechart. It has a small cost but you can try it free for 30 days. Go to www.worden.com and download it if you have a fast internet connection. Otherwise have them send it to on disk.
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http://www.xtratime.org/
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Pricewatch is good some others are www.newegg.com, www.tigerdirect.com, www.pricegrabber.com, and www.froogle.google.com, and wwww.pricewatch.com\n\nHere are some results\nPrice watch: 53.5$-89$\nTigerdirect: N/A\nNewegg: N/A\nFroogle: 79$-504$\nPrice Grabber: 46$-128.02