Mac Forum / Programming / Mac Programming / July 2005

Hello,

I need some assistance.  Please understand I'm not asking for specific
details (though they are helpful) but rather, I just need some general
considerations.

I've been engaged to redesign a stock-ticker to look like whatever I
need it to look like.  That's actually my job really-- I'm a designer,
not a programmer.

Is stock information publicly available as a stream of "raw data"
through some server somewhere?  That way I do not have to use a 3rd
party ticker like "Yahoo" or "E-trade".

I will have a programmer to take this "data stream" and dress it up
nicely with our company's visual graphics style, but I need to know
what kind of programmer can do this and what progams & languages he'll
need to know.

Eventually the whole package will be available on the web.  So I guess
what I'm asking is, how do I construct my own stock ticker from
scratch?

Any help would be appreciated.