Prior thread: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/f21e02b7-04de-4143-a7ff-1ff09a1b923a/msn-moneycentral-iqy-connection-failure?forum=excel
The prior thread is marked "answered" but the problem is NOT FIXED.
Back on December 22, 2014, the MoneyCentral Portfolio Manager was removed by disabling the moneycentral.msn.com site. This caused the Excel stock quote webquery using the MSN MoneyCentral Investor Stock Quotes.iqy file to stop working.
A fix was reported by George Zhao at Pactera Technologies a couple of days ago and marked as answer by Melon Chen (also Pactera Technologies) today. THE PROBLEM IS NOT FIXED.
I am not sure anything is actually working today. Some things were working yesterday, but today nothing is working. Very very frustrating.
Yesterday, quotes could be obtained from the redirected site
http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/quoteslookup?SYMBOL=["
provided you did NOT store the symbols in Excel cells. Excel builds the SYMBOL parameter from multiple cells by separating the symbols with plus signs ("+") and not commas:
SYMBOL=MSFT+IBM+AAPL
It was also reported that the daily change percent was being handled as a number rather than a percent (multiplying the change by 100), that ETFs and mutual funds were not being handled, and that requests for currency rates and indices were not being handled.
If George Zhao or someone at Pactera Technologies could please let us know what is going on it would be much appreciated.