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 formula

Answer 1

First of all, date(2017,15,11) means the 11th day of 15th month of the year, so you'll need to swap the month and day.

Secondly, historical data queries, such as

=GOOGLEFINANCE("CURRENCY:GBPEUR", "price", date(2017,11,15))

return a table with columns and headers.

Date                Close
11/15/2017 23:58:00 1.1163

From the way you use this formula, I see you just want the exchange rate. Wrap the function in index(..., 2, 2) to get the second cell in second row.

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

Answer 2

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

Answer 3

15-Dec-2018 is a Sunday - hence the error. You can add a -2 or +2 because the error will also pop up on Saturdays. I prefer the -2

Answer 4

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.