>>>Hi all! -- I've got a project in the gestation stage that will need to get current stock prices and to look up stock symbols. Is there a web service out there that hosts this information? If not, is there some non-proprietary method for getting the information other than going to some place like E*Trade?
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>>>TIA
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>>You should grab them from
>>http://screen.yahoo.com/stocks.html
>>http://dynamic.nasdaq.com/dynamic/premarketma.stm
>>and after that input in your database
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>Jordan,
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>Those are not web-services so will he be able to automatically get daily updates from these screens? Not exactly sure what he wants to use it for, but if it's a one-shot thing then I guess that would work.

we scan them every 5 minutes