Disabling Spotlight connection to "apple-finance.query.yahoo.com"

[macstatic]

I recently upgraded from MacOS 10.13 High Sierra to 10.14 Mojave and noticed that after booting up, Little Snitch tells me that Spotlight is trying to connect to apple-finance.query.yahoo.com

Can anyone tell me why this is happening and how to disable it (or if it's possible)?
Naturally I can block it with Little Snitch, but I prefer trying to figure out things like this the normal way first.

 

[bogdanw]

You could try to disable Spotlight Suggestions
Change Spotlight preferences on Mac
https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/change-spotlight-preferences-mchlp2811/10.14/mac/10.14
Spotlight Suggestions on Mac
https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/spotlight-suggestions-mchl62db64f5/10.14/mac/10.14

I always block all connections for Spotlight with LittleSnitch.

 

[macstatic]

Thanks for those links. I hadn't read all that before, but already disabled "Spotlight suggestions" and "Allow Spotlight suggestions to look up", so I was puzzled as to why MacOS still tried to connect Spotlight to that Yahoo finance site:

I always block all connections for Spotlight with LittleSnitch.

Does this mean Apple has left us no choice to actually turn this off?

 

[bogdanw]

Does this mean Apple has left us no choice to actually turn this off?

It gets worse, starting with Big Sur
“Spotlight - How to Remove Web Search from Results”
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/spotlight-how-to-remove-web-search-from-results.2271616/

 

[macstatic]

Oh, yes -that's quite bad!
So it looks like the final conclusion is that the only sure way to block this is to use Little Snitch (or something similar).

 

[Gravydog316]

I'm guessing it's trying to update Stock quotes & retrieve stock news