Canadian Stocks in USD (eventually)

[David Hampton]

On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 21:24 +0100, Jeffrey Ratcliffe wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 22:56 +0100, Jeffrey Ratcliffe wrote:
> > On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 17:53 -0500, David Hampton wrote:
> > > Is there equivalent ticker symbol you can use that would pull a quote
> > > from a US stock exchange?  That quote would be reported by F::Q in USD.
> 
> I couldn't find the symbol for a US exchange,

For yahoo, the US is denoted by no suffix, or by one of the following
suffixes (from the F::Q source):

	US  => "USD", # USA		AMEX, Nasdaq, NYSE
  	A   => "USD", # USA		American Stock Exchange (ASE)
  	B   => "USD", # USA		Boston Stock Exchange (BOS)
  	N   => "USD", # USA		Nasdaq Stock Exchange (NAS)
  	O   => "USD", # USA		NYSE Stock Exchange (NYS)
  	OB  => "USD", # USA		OTC Bulletin Board
  	PK  => "USD", # USA		Pink Sheets
  	X   => "USD", # USA		US Options

> but I did see that the
> Hamburg exchange quotes them in EUR, so from that point of view, problem
> solved.

Good to hear.

> Thanks for your help

No problem.  I'm intrigued by the fact you were getting quotes in a
currency that isn't the local currency of the country where the exchange
is located.  I'm trying to see if I can elicit that information from
Yahoo without screen scraping, so I can add support to F::Q.

David

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