RE: symbol descriptions on the Interent?

["cwest" <cwest@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Paul,

Thanks for the suggestion. The url will bring up a yahoo page relative
to those syms, but I need the names of the stocks to be returned in a
string, even if it's appended to the url. For example, a url to retrieve
a symbol if you have a company name is
http://finance.yahoo.com/l?s=sears, however, there doesn't seem to be a
syntax to find a company name if you have a symbol.

-----Original Message-----
From: J Paul Gaskill [mailto:capnpaul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 3:48 PM
To: Omega List
Cc: cwest
Subject: RE: symbol descriptions on the Interent?
Importance: High


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