Naarad Muni

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Naarad Muni uses the valuable market and stocks data from the open financial trading market IEX API. IEX is an US based stock exchange firm.

IEX was created in response to questionable trading practices that had become widely used across traditional public Wall Street exchanges as well as dark pools and other alternative trading systems. The IEX exchange aims to attract investors by promising to "play fair" by operating in a transparent and straightforward manner, while also helping to level the playing field for traders.

IEX is a unique player in the market data and trading arena. They are small, but fast-growing, and different than the other players in the game. They provide a specialized look at a very volatile, dark, and often out of reach market for many average traders. Making it an honest and valuable source of data when it comes to streaming market data, and working to develop an understanding of how things are moving. Their API is free, and publicly accessible, something you can't say of other providers and exchanges.

This skill uses this free API to provide the users the financial data of various stock exchanges. You can use this skill to learn the stock price, peers, quote, dividends, splits and the top headlines related to the stocks. You can also learn about the top performing sectors and percentage change in the performance of the sectors. There is a ton of other financial data made available by the IEX API, and they are currently under development in this skill and are going to be live soon.

Here are some of the commands to help you get started:

1) "Alexa open Naarad Muni"
"Hello I am Naarad Muni! I can help you to get a peek at the bulls and bears of the Wall Street. To know more about the stocks and the market conditions, ask me questions like, What is the Amazon stocks priced at right now?"

2) "Help!"
"Please ask me questions like, What is the Amazon stocks priced at right now?"

3) "What is the Amazon stocks priced at right now?"
"The stock price of Amazon.com Inc. company is 1788.61 right now."

4) "Is there any news on the company stocks?"
"The top headlines of Amazon.com Inc. company today are, The last thing we need is yet another streaming video service. U.S. VC Investments Headed For $100B Year. Stocks To Watch: Was That A Speed Bump?"

5) "List all the peers of Amazon."
"The peer stocks of Amazon.com Inc. company are Microsoft Corporation, Costco Wholesale Corporation, eBay Inc., Overstock.com Inc., MercadoLibre Inc., Barnes & Noble Inc., Walmart Inc., CBS Corporation Class B, CafePress Inc., Alphabet Inc.."

6) "Give details about the performance of health care sector today."
"The performance of health care sector increased by 0.01539 percentage."

7) "Which stocks are top gainers today?"
"The stocks that are top gainers today are, Corium International Inc., Iovance Biotherapeutics Inc., Replimune Group Inc., Farfetch Limited Class A, Smartsheet Inc. Class A, Grupo Financiero Galicia S.A., Bitauto Holdings Limited American Depositary Shares (each representing one), Endava plc American Depositary Shares (each representing one Class A), Tilray Inc., SSR Mining Inc.."