# Source for free stock quotes in email?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/source-for-free-stock-quotes-in-email/154253>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 11, 2003, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/source-for-free-stock-quotes-in-email/154253 "2003-02-11T01:28:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![Melon\_Farmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@Melon\_Farmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melon_Farmer)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2003, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/source-for-free-stock-quotes-in-email/154253/1 "2003-02-11T01:28:24Z")

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I’ve been looking around for a source for free stock quotes in email, and I’ve completely struck out. Any dopers out there have a recommendation?

I’ve found a lot of sites that offer a custom web page that will provide quotes, but the sites that email your quotes want $$. So, alternatively, if anyone knows a good utility that will chew up web pages and email text versions (has to be plain text for this project) of said web page to me, that would work to.

TIA

- MF

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**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2003, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/source-for-free-stock-quotes-in-email/154253/2 "2003-02-11T03:31:17Z")

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Why e-mail? AOL Instant messenger give you free quotes. It’s delayed 15 minutes, but unless you’re a big trader, that shouldn’t be a problem.

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**Author:** ![Melon\_Farmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@Melon\_Farmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melon_Farmer)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2003, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/source-for-free-stock-quotes-in-email/154253/3 "2003-02-11T21:08:34Z")

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Thanks RealityChuck, but it has to be e-mail because the project involves sending quotes (or reformatted html pages) to Blackberry PDAs which are part of a Microsoft Exchange infrastructure.

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**Author:** ![Ennui](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ennui/32/3396_2.png) [@Ennui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ennui)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2003, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/source-for-free-stock-quotes-in-email/154253/4 "2003-02-11T23:02:25Z")

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This is just a WAG but Excel _might_ be able to do it. There’s a built in web query that retreaves any reasonable number of stock quotes from MSN (15 min delay) built into all post xl97 versions and I know in my 2k edition there is an send as e-mail atachment option. I _believe_ you could write a macro to automate the whole process.

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**Author:** ![Melon\_Farmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@Melon\_Farmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melon_Farmer)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2003, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/source-for-free-stock-quotes-in-email/154253/5 "2003-02-13T04:31:12Z")

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Wow. Good idea Ennui, I’ll try that.