Find out what happens when I connect to the Internet in Money

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When you connect to the Internet for the first time on any given day in Money by using Direct Statements (Direct banking services that allow you to download online statements directly and securely from your financial institution, and depending on your financial institution, transfer money electronically between accounts.), Direct Bill Payment (A direct banking service that allows you to pay bills electronically, which can be used with any checking account in the U.S. After you set up direct bill payment at your financial institution, you can have money electronically debited from your account and your financial institution will send that money to your designated payee.), Online Quotes, or whenever you update Internet information manually, Money:

• Updates stock quotes, news, market indexes, and currency exchange rates from Microsoft Investor.
• Finds out if there are any new news articles about your financial institutions (Banks, brokerage houses, and credit card providers.), companies you invest in, or subjects you have expressed interest in and updates the headlines on your Financial Home Page.
• Searches for new headlines and Internet updates from the Microsoft Money Home Page.
• Updates Web links in Decision Center (for Financial Suite users).
• Downloads (When you make an online connection to a bank, financial institution or Web site requesting information (such as a stock quote or bank statement), that information is transmitted over the Internet, or ôdownloadedö, to your computer. You can then use that information in your Money file.) updated mortgage and tax rates.

However, you can select what, if any, of this information you want Money to update with each call.

You can also specify that Money check for new information once each day when you start Money. This will ensure that you have the latest information when you start working with your finances each day. You can still, however, update your selected Internet information manually.

If you connect to the Internet from Money in any other way, Money does not make these updates, but simply jumps to the selected Web page, opening a connection to the Internet if necessary.

How do I specify the information Money updates from the Web?

How do I set my Internet information update options?

How do I update Internet information manually?