Re: retrieve symbols for trust units

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Posted by Mark on July 05, 2007 at 19:08:54:

In Reply to: retrieve symbols for trust units posted by Al on July 05, 2007 at 18:53:08:

: Does anyone know the symbol to use for price retrieval of trust units? As an example, Canadian Oil Sands Trust, (symbol COS.UN)on the Toronto Exchange. Neither COSUN or COS.UN work. Same issue with other trusts. ???? Help..

Hi Al,

You can get this quote from Yahoo using COS-UN.TO. To look up any ticker symbol, just go to the quote server you're using, and do a ticker lookup. For example, I found this by going here:

http://finance.yahoo.com/lookup

and looking up "Canadian Oil Sands Trust". In general, Yahoo has the quotes as their regular symbol, plus a suffix for the exchange if they're not on a US exchange. For example, the Toronto Exchange uses ".TO" on the end.

Thanks,
Mark
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