RE: symbol descriptions on the Interent?

["J Paul Gaskill" <capnpaul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Colin

Try This

<http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=AERS+AIM+AIR+ALR+ASY+AVL+BEAV+CGT+COL+CVU+CW+C
WB+DCO+ETC+FA+FAVS+GR+HEI+HEIA+HSR+HXL+ISSC+ISYS+KRSL+LMIA+MAX+MOGA+MOGB+MTS
X+ORB+PAGI+PCP+RNHDA+SIF+SMU+SPAB+SQAA+SQAB+SVT+TATTF+TDY+TGI+YLF&d=v2>

J Paul


-----Original Message-----
From: cwest [mailto:cwest@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: March 10, 2003 17:17
To: Omegalist
Subject: symbol descriptions on the Interent?


I'm able to get a string from finance.yahoo.com given a symbol, but not the
stock's name or a description of the symbol if it's an option.  For example,
sending "something" (see  http://www.highlandmedia.com/vb/hmstocks/ ) to
yahoo returns a string:
"IBM",75.70,"3/10/2003","4:02pm",-2.20,77.45,77.45,75.50,6565300

Any suggestions where I can get a stock's name or a description of the
symbol if it's an option would be appreciated. Another approach is to add a
table (to my db) that contains this info as it's fairly static. Can anyone
suggest a (free) db of syms etc.?

Thanks in advance
Colin West