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. I despise the cloud. I think it should be called "the Fog."The one I like is "The Cloud just means someone else's computer, somewhere."
Yahoo still has historical data for ^SPX going back to 1927.
Yahoo Finance: S&P 500 INDEX (^SPX) Historical Data...
SPY began trading in 1993, so Yahoo isn't shorting anybody on that.Dang, you are right. I confused SPX with SPY. Thanks.
I forgot that in my spreadsheet I used price-only SPX along with dividend yield* to compute total return.
Hmmmm, ^SPX is the same as ^GSPC.
It used to be just plain "SPX", but they changed it to ^GSPC a few years ago. I had to kludge all my existing scripts to convert SPX to ^GSPC. Never could understand why they called it GSPC.
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multpl.com - S p dividend yieldHmmm, I see they also have S&P 500 Historical Prices
