Downloading European share prices

[Benjamin So]

Hi David,

According to FinkCommander, my 1.08-11 version of finance-quote is 
up-to-date. Using your example, I get the following result:

benjamin$ dump-finance-quote yahoo UBSN.VX

The query for UBSN.VX failed!!
Finance::Quote fields Gnucash uses:
     symbol: UBSN.VX              <=== required
       date: 5/3/2005             <=== required
   currency: ** missing **        <=== required
       last: 94.85                <=\
        nav:                      <=== one of these
      price: 94.85                <=/
   timezone:                      <=== optional

The failure message is a bit worrying, although the value is the same. 
Also, the currency is missing. Is this perhaps an indication that I 
need to update finance-quote, despite Fink's opinion to the contrary?

Ben

On 4/05/2005, at 0:39, David Hampton wrote:

> What version of Finance::Quote are you using?  IIRC, all versions of
> F::Q simply pass the full symbol on to yahoo for resolution.  Older
> versions mapped the suffix to a currency, but there is no mapping for
> the "Virtual Exchange (VX)" case.  I'm not sure what F::Q does in this
> case (whether it returns a bare number, or returns a default of GBP),
> but either way it would screw up your results.  The very latest CVS
> version of F::Q knows how to ask yahoo for the currency symbol as part
> of the quote request.
>
> You should have a program called dump-finance-quote installed with
> gnucash.  What does it say?  Below is a quote when running the very
> latest F::Q from CVS.  These results look correct to me.
>
>     david$ dump-finance-quote yahoo UBSN.VX
>     Finance::Quote fields Gnucash uses:
>         symbol: UBSN.VX              <=== required
>           date: 05/03/2005           <=== required
>       currency: CHF                  <=== required
>           last: 94.85                <=\
>            nav:                      <=== one of these
>          price: 94.85                <=/
>       timezone:                      <=== optional
>
> David