Get exchange rate on a specific date from GoogleFinance

Question

I'm having trouble stopping the googlefinance function on a specific date to use "that" specific exchange rate to convert currency from GBP to EUR.

Here is my formulae: =Finance!B4*GOOGLEFINANCE("CURRENCY:GBPEUR","price",date(2017,15,11))

Here is the error: When evaluating GOOGLEFINANCE, the query for the symbol: 'CURRENCY:GBPEUR' returned no data.

I've looked at other solutions on SO but none to avail. I've actually added "date" and "price" to my formulae from other solutions. Like so:- Solution 1

Solution 1

Just to make sure it's known, the , operator isn't used in today's Google Sheets, so the correct expression to avoid a parser error would be (in your case):

=index(GOOGLEFINANCE("CURRENCY:GBPEUR"; "price"; date(2017;11;15)); 2; 2)

Solution 2

Here's my version of this formula.

Where B3 should be valid date.

=index(GOOGLEFINANCE("CURRENCY:USDCNY", "price", B3), 2, 2)

PS. I'm not sure why, but when I specify the 15-Dec-2018 the formula shows me an error. All other dates are work correct.

Solution 3

In Google Sheets, I have done like this, using semicolons:

=index(googlefinance("currency:USDNOK";"price";G11);2;2)

G11 is my cell containing the date. It seems to do the work for me. I tested it with todays date in G11 and got the same result as for this simplified version for today's currency rate:

=googlefinance("currency:USDNOK")

Solution 4

:D Nothing works. No matter what date I insert or address from a cell, no matter what currency pair I declare, what price I insert or address from a cell, with or without index → it returs with "analysis error". I love it when this happens.

Solution 5

your issue is (was) that you trying to force data for non-existing 15th month. syntax for DATE is:

=DATE(YEAR(), MONTH(), DAY())

so the full formula should be:

=Finance!B4*INDEX(GOOGLEFINANCE("CURRENCY:GBPEUR", "price", DATE(2017, 11, 15)), 2, 2)

alternatives are:

=Finance!B4*INDEX(GOOGLEFINANCE("CURRENCY:GBPEUR", "price", "15/11/2014"), 2, 2)

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=Finance!B4*INDEX(GOOGLEFINANCE("CURRENCY:GBPEUR", "price", DATEVALUE("15/11/2014")), 2, 2)

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=Finance!B4*INDEX(GOOGLEFINANCE("CURRENCY:GBPEUR", "price", A1), 2, 2)

where A1 contains valid date

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Comments

[Paul Razvan Berg]

I never encountered this issue for weekend days.

[Niloct]

see a possible cause in my answer.

[MrSlash]

Google sheet help pages use the , separator though... support.google.com/docs/answer/3093281