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FINANCIAL
FINANCIAL is the weekly English-language newspaper with offices in Tbilisi, Georgia and Kiev, Ukraine. Published by Intelligence Group LLC, FINANCIAL is focused on opinion leaders and top business decision-makers; It's about world’s largest companies, investing, careers, and small business. It is...

 software produced by Reuters
Reuters
Reuters is a news agency headquartered in New York City. Until 2008 the Reuters news agency formed part of a British independent company, Reuters Group plc, which was also a provider of financial market data...

 in the form of an addin for Microsoft Office Excel. It is a real time data engine which will push new data into Excel when it receives notification of these updates from a Reuters TIBCO bus. This is commonly live market data, such as stock prices, from a financial exchange. Information can also be contributed to the TIBCO bus from Excel using the addin, which is then available to other permissioned users using the addin on another computer or using Reuters 3000 Xtra stand alone software. It also has features which allow retrieval of historical market data.

A typical excel formula call is =RtGet("IDN_SELECTFEED","AAPL","LAST").

Competitors include Vistasource's RTW, Gissing RealtimeXL, Arcontech's Excelerator, DTS's ExPDA and the addin associated with the Bloomberg Terminal
Bloomberg Terminal
The Bloomberg Terminal is a computer system provided by Bloomberg L.P. that enables financial professionals to access the Bloomberg Professional service through which users can monitor and analyze real-time financial market data movements and place trades on the electronic trading platform...

 (Bloomberg L.P.
Bloomberg L.P.
Bloomberg L.P. is an American privately held financial software, media, and data company. Bloomberg makes up one third of the $16 billion global financial data market with estimated revenue of $6.9 billion. Bloomberg L.P...

's equivalent of Reuters 3000 Xtra).

Vistasource RTW, Gissing RealtimeXL, DTS's ExPDA and Arcontech's Excelerator provide the realtime data engine and will generally source data from Bloomberg, Reuters and/or other market data sources.

And a free alternative would be to use Microsoft Office Add-In to get dynamic stock quotes in Excel.
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