createholidays

I have to create a matrix containing the European festival calendar (non-trading days). The "createholidays" requires obtaining data from the site http://www.FinancialCalender.com. Can anyone tell me if it is necessary to pay a subscription fee?

If yes, there is an alternative ways to create the matrix of European holidays?

Thanks

Answer 1

[Friedrich]

Hi,

The data needed for the createholidays function must be downloaded from http://www.financialcalendar.com/. According to that page it sounds like you have to pay: http://www.financialcalendar.com/Data/Holidays/Pricing

I don’t know any nice way to gather all European holidays. Maybe hardcode it with the data obtained on Wikipedia?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_holidays_by_country