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[Derek Atkins]

David Hampton <hampton at employees.org> writes:

> The stock symbol is AAPL, not aapl.  Dump-finance-quote should have
> failed.  The only reason it succeeded is that it translated the symbol
> name into upper case without telling you.  It should not do this, as
> some stock symbols actually use lower case letters, though the practice
> seems uncommon.

Well, there's BRKa and BRKb.  ;)

> David

-derek
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