{"id":1081,"date":"2007-09-16T05:27:37","date_gmt":"2007-09-16T05:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amibroker.org\/userkb\/2007\/09\/14\/hemscott-classifications\/"},"modified":"2008-03-03T11:34:14","modified_gmt":"2008-03-03T11:34:14","slug":"hemscott-classifications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.amibroker.org\/editable_userkb\/2007\/09\/16\/hemscott-classifications\/","title":{"rendered":"Sector Classifications – Hemscott (v2)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hemscott Inc<\/em> is the owner of the stock classification system used by Yahoo<\/em> at their Y!Finance (USA)<\/em> site as well as by other data providers.<\/p>\n

As AmiBroker<\/em> user Dick Hoierman noted in a recent AmiBroker<\/em> group discussion;  "Hemscott has more or less become the standard as TC2007 and others have switched to it." 1  <\/sup>which makes the topic one of interest for many AmiBroker owners.<\/p>\n

Interested readers can find  Hemscott Industry Group<\/em> listings at the Hemscott<\/em> site: http:\/\/www.hemscottdata.com\/<\/a> <\/p>\n

To access the list go to the Homepage >> Financial Databases >> North American Industry Groups >> Hemscott Industry Groups<\/em> which is the path to an HTML version: http:\/\/www.hemscottdata.com\/fin_database\/na_hemscott_industry_group.html<\/a> <\/p>\n

Unfortunately a downloadable version is not available at the site but a ‘working’ version can be obtained by manual, albeit tedious, means.<\/p>\n

To make a text copy of the HTML list:<\/strong><\/p>\n