.html.: : : When I use the feature now I get a message on the page returned by Yahoo that "There are no headlines at the moment." However if I click on Charts on the Yahoo page and from the charts page click on News, I get the normal news page.
: : : Something likely changed at Yahoo.
: : Hi Wayne,
: : What symbol are you using? When I test this with INTC it seems to work.
: : The default URL will take you to:
: : http://biz.yahoo.com/n/i/intc.html
: : which does seem to work.
: : Thanks,
: : Mark
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: : Mark Beiley
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: : Fund Manager, portfolio management software for Windows 95/98/ME/NT/00/XP
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: I think I figured out what does and doesn't work. I am Canadian so a lot of my stocks are on the main Canadian exchange (the Toronto Stock Exchange). Yahoo represents Canadian stocks in their database with a .TO suffix (e.g. Research in Motion's symbol on the TSE is RIM. Yahoo lists it as RIM.TO).
: Accessing web news using the xxx.TO symbol always worked in the past but something has changed and it appears not to work anymore. I use Yahoo as the source for stock updates in Fund Manager & so need to list the .TO name to download from the Yahoo site. But then web news no longer works.
: RIM is one company that is listed on both NASDAQ and the TSE. In this case I could use the NASDAQ symbol instead of the TSE symbol & it would work (more or less the same). Many Canadian stocks however are listed only on the TSE.
: Workarounds??
: Notify Yahoo of the problem if at their end? (Do you have an inside track there?)
: If you can correct the problem it would be appreciated.
: Wayne McCracken
Hi Wayne,
You can fix this by changing your news URL to:
http://biz.yahoo.com/n/ca//.htmlunder "Options/Preferences...".
Note, this will result in the URL of:
http://biz.yahoo.com/n/ca/R/RIM.html
for a symbol RIM.TO
The will take all characters of the symbol up to, but not including
the period.Thanks,
Mark
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Mark Beiley
Fund Manager, portfolio management software for Windows 95/98/ME/NT/00/XP
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