Java Exceptions and I/O

1. Work through Sun's Working with URLs tutorial, paying particular attention to the use of input streams in the lesson Reading Directly from a URL.
2. Yahoo!Finance offers a stock quotation service (15-20 mins delayed) that provides a variety of financial data. The data provided can be controlled directly through the URL, e.g. http://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=YHOO+IBM&f=snd1l1cvx&e=.csv delivers a CSV (Comma Separated Values) file containing information about Yahoo and IBM stocks, in the following format:

   
    Symbol, Name, Last Trade Date, Last Trade, Change and Change %, Volume, Exchange 
    
   
   

   Write a Java program that allows the user to identify a stock symbol and displays financial data in the format above for the given symbol. Extend your program to allow the user to create a portfolio of stocks and display information accordingly. The web page http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/yahooquote.html provides a summary of the available fields and the associated query format symbols, if you are interested in developing your program further.