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Thanks Cab. I'll keep looking though. There is actually quite a bit of work
to clean the data. I tried a little. If a file could be downloaded that
would sure save a lot, but I didn't see how that could be done.
-----Original Message-----
From: Cab Vinton [mailto:cabber@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 6:36 PM
To: cwest; Omegalist
Subject: RE: symbol descriptions on the Interent?
You could try this database. It would require a little bit of work to
compile & clean up, but not too bad.
http://www.dbc.com/cgi-bin/htx.exe/forms/lookup.html?source=DBCC
Good luck.
Cab
> 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
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