why can't I download historical prices for mutual funds from YH finance anymore?

Answer 1

Here is the response I received when I went through the Contact Customer Care button at the bottom of http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/finance...

Received 5/31/07:

"Thank you for writing to Yahoo! Finance.

As you have noticed we are currently having an issue with historical quotes data being temporarily unavailable for the specified date range and we sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this has caused you.
At this time we would like to reassure you that we are doing everything in our power to resolve the issue as quickly as possible. Unfortunately we can not offer any additional information in regards to this."

Answer 2

Yahoo must be having some problems. Some stocks like AMCC are fine. TXN gets data from years ago only. I haven't found one mutual fund that has data in days. I hope this gets resolved I have too many spread sheets written around Yahoo data.

Answer 3

Looks like they're having some "technical difficulties, esp since it's still working for other symbols.

You might need to report this directly to Y!Finance.

Here's how to get to a page to report your problem directly to Yahoo!

In Yahoo!Finance, at the top right of the page, there's a help link. Click on that to get your here

http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/finance/


Then click on one of the links on the left like quote basics. Here's that page:

http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/finance/quotes/quote-01.html/

Finally, at the bottom is the contact customer care button. Yes, it's convoluted, but that's one way to get there!


Oh, or just click here (if it works). (hard for me to test if it works since I clicked through to get there)

http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/finance/general.html?

Once you get there and ask your question, they're pretty good at getting back to you, but you may have to ask/answer back and forth a couple of times.

Hope that helps!