Re: Web news no longer works

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In Reply to: Re: Web news no longer works posted by Mark on January 23, 2003 at 18:06:32:

: : : : Web news is a useful feature. Mine always worked & retreived current news items from Yahoo (the URL is set to the default: http://biz.yahoo.com/n//.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
: : : --
: : : Mark Beiley
: : :
: : : Fund Manager, portfolio management software for Windows 95/98/ME/NT/00/XP
: : : /XP
: : :

: : 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//.html

: under "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
: --
: Mark Beiley
:
: Fund Manager, portfolio management software for Windows 95/98/ME/NT/00/XP
: /XP
:

Hello again Mark,

The solution you proposed works for stocks listed on the TSE but not for US stiocks. I assume that the /ca forces Yahoo to interpret the symbol as Canadian. Therefore "http://biz.yahoo.com/n/ca//.html" does not work for non-TSE listed stocks. My portfolio is a combination of Canadian and US listed stocks.

Wayne

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