price retrieving for australia securities

[investor]

I use Yahoo real time & Yahoo historical as default quote servers. Did Yahoo stop retrieving prices for Australian securities? I checked the symbols I'm using again Yahoo and they include "ASX" in the symbol reference (i.e. CWLTH BANK FPO(ASX: CBA.AX). Prices haven't automatically updated since mid/late December when I try to download historical pricing. Thank you. Chris

[Mark]

Hi Chris,

It appears Yahoo doesn't have a real-time price for this quote, and their historical data only goes up to the end of last year. The regular Yahoo server however does seem to have a current quote for it. You can verify this by going to Yahoo with your browser, and looking up the quote. If you look on the left menu on Yahoo's site you'll see links to "Real-Time ECN" and "Historical Prices". This is where FM is grabbing the data from, so if it isn't showing in your browser, then FM won't be able to retrieve it either. The regular Yahoo quote is coming from the "Download Data" link on the main summary page of the quote.