Stock Widget not working

I have the same problem with mine. It works for regular stock symbols, but it no longer works for the major indexes like the Dow, S&P 500 or Nasdaq. I have tried using other symbols for these indexes that I found on the Yahoo Financial web page, but these don't work either.

I just found and update for the iStocks widget that solves my problem. The update is for iStocks Widget version 0.2.2 and is found here: http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/33421
This version has a brown page background compared to a blue background on my original version.

A few days ago I removed the preferences (plist) file for the stocks widget -- which of course just gets recreated from scratch -- and the stocks widget seems to be working much better now. The blank numeric results are gone.

This trick did NOT work a few weeks ago, so the service presenting the data to the stocks widget has apparently made a change since then which only takes effect if you discard the now-outdated plist file.

The one remaining issue is that the time line for the charts is still one hour off -- as if we were still on daylight savings time.
--Bob

How did you figure out which plist file was for the stock widget? I searched through Spotlight and there's lots of plist files and I can't distinguish which one is for the stock widget.

Any help is appreciated? 'Cause this hour off, and NO index quotes is making me crazy!!

Thanks!

Go to user>library>preferences>
It should be named "widget-com.apple.widget.stocks.plist" or something. Just delete it and empty it from your trash bin and it should work. It worked for me! Yaaay