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USD / JPY currency rate historical data download

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The Japanese Yen (JPY) is the official currency of Japan. From  Quandl  you can download free USD / JPY historical data back until 5 March 1991. Steps for downloading USD / JPY market data Step1 : visit Quandl's  USD / JPY download page  ( http://www.quandl.com/QUANDL-Quandl/USDJPY-Currency-Exchange-Rates-USD-vs-JPY ) It may happen that you meet Quandl's tutorial first (see below). Press " Skip "! (Tutorial introduces  all features of Quandl  – a lot of them is not required for getting data.)

DAX German stock index (GDAXI) historical data download

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The  DAX index (Deutscher Aktien IndeX) has been started on 30 December 1987 with the base level of 1000. From Yahoo! Finance you can download DAX data back until 26 November 1990. Steps for downloading DAX market data Step1:  visit  http://finance.yahoo.com/q/hp?s=%5EGDAXI+Historical+Prices You should see a page similar to this: