For over two years I have been using web queries to retrieve MSN MoneyCentral Investor Stock Quotes.Use of the connection data depends on retrieval of consistent stock names and symbols.Starting three days ago, the stock names retrieved for many symbols were changed: Corp changed to Corporation (e.g. Microsoft, Intel), deletion of a portion of the name (e.g. deleting "The" from The Coca-Cola Co; or deleting "Inc" from Seabridge Gold Inc; or deletion of the hyphen in Franco-Nevada Corp), or putting the name in all cap letters (e.g. SPROTT RESOURCE CORP ilo Sprott Resource Corp). In at least one case, the name retrieved of the stock for a given symbol is wrong (CPN is Calpine Corp, not Citigroup...). This needs to be fixed or MSN MoneyCentral Investor Quotes is unusable.
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