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July 14, 2005

FinancialContent Proposes RSS Stock Ticker Symbol Element to Support Syndication of Financial Podcasts

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Posted by Alex Williams

Financial Content is proposing that the RSS community to consider a new category element for RSS 2.0 in order to standardize the use of stock ticker symbols for the syndication of financial podcasts and other online financial content.

From the press release:

"To ensure compatibility with previous versions of RSS, FinancialContent will follow industry standard by proposing a category element for "stocksymbol" with a domain attribute. The element's value consists of the stock ticker symbol of a publicly traded company, optionally prefixed by the stock exchange on which the company trades. By default, a stock ticker symbol without a stock exchange symbol is considered a U.S.-based equity. FinancialContent also proposes support for international stock exchanges."

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1. Andrew on July 14, 2005 12:19 PM writes...

As a broker I look forward to getting my content on my Ipod this way so I can fast forward over the safe harbors right to the Q&A of most conference calls. I’m sure independent FAs will have content also that I can chuckle to also.
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