SAS data step view and data wrap in a macro for loop

Question

For a university research project I am retrieving data from WRDS via SAS and am relatively new to SAS. I am trying to retrieve data in a specific interval provided by WRDS which

Answer 1

This line is just wrong.

%local stock = "COP";   

You are trying the define local macro variables named = and "COP". You probably meant to do this.

%local stock ;
%let stock = "COP";