Re: Web news no longer works

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In Reply to: Re: Web news no longer works posted by Wayne on January 23, 2003 at 18:31:52:

: : : : : 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

Hi Wayne,

Unfortunately, Yahoo keeps separate news URLs for US vs. Canadian. You might
want to take a look at another server, like CBS Marketwatch. I checked and
it seems to use a common URL, but the Canadian symbols are different from Yahoo:

http://cbs.marketwatch.com/tools/quotes/quotes.asp?symb=CA:RIM&vc=0&siteid=mktw&dist=dropmenu

http://cbs.marketwatch.com/tools/quotes/quotes.asp?symb=INTC&vc=0&siteid=mktw&dist=dropmenu

Thanks,
Mark
--
Mark Beiley

Fund Manager, portfolio management software for Windows 95/98/ME/NT/00/XP
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