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Bloomberg data download with special tickers

Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2021 1:24 pm
by GFXFTS
Hello,

Hope all well.

For some reason, Eviews doesn't pull the already available February data via the attached .prg into the attached .wf. To check if the data is available I downloaded the data also into Excel and got this:

Start Date 18.01.2021
End Date 18.01.2022

MPMIDEMA Index
#N/A Requesting Data...
Dates BN_SURVEY_MEDIAN
31.01.2021 57
28.02.2021 56.5


Thanks a lot for your help.

Best,

Günter

Re: Bloomberg data download with special tickers

Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2021 2:56 pm
by EViews Jason
Unfortunately, we do currently do not have access to Bloomberg. We are working on re-obtaining access but in the meantime we cannot tell internally what exactly is occurring.

Until we do get access, can you modify your program to create a daily workfile and then attempt to fetch the series. If you see values for the beginning of February 2021, I suspect the series is being brought in as a daily and then due the frequency conversion method, the month of February is converted to NA.

Assuming the above is true, try specifying a conversion method in the fetch command that ignores NAs. For example,

Code: Select all

fetch(d=bbg,link, c=a) "mpmidema index" "mpmidema Index BN_SURVEY_MEDIAN"
More information on setting the conversion method can be found here http://www.eviews.com/help/helpintro.ht ... fetch.html

Re: Bloomberg data download with special tickers

Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2021 5:55 am
by javiersan
That works.