Getting Stock Quotes and Securities set up...

[Neil Marks]

Update!
I ran "gnc-fq-update" which ran through a sequence of updates and now 
the quotes for non-US stock work!
Regards,
Neil


Neil Marks wrote:
> I have a question on the above... I have Finance::Quote installed along 
> with gnucash 2.2.7. This works ok for some stocks I have as I see the 
> stock price updated - example is IBM (using Yahoo). However, I have some 
> other stocks (UK stocks) which I can't seem to get to work correctly.
> Example:
> using "qnc-fq-dump yahoo_europe NG.L" (or europe)
> returns
> Finance::Quote fields Gnucash uses:
>     symbol: NG.L                 <=== required
>       date: 00/00/2000           <=== required
>   currency: GBP                  <=== required
>       last: 7.04                 <=\
>        nav:                      <=== one of these
>      price: 7.04                 <=/
>   timezone:                      <=== optional
> but within gnucash when I try and get quotes from within the price 
> editor it complains that "FUND:NG.L" can not be retrieved. I have 
> defined the security
> with NG.L in the symbol/abbreviation field with either Yahoo Europe 
> (Single) or Europe (Multiple) and both these fail...
> I also have the same problem with SSE.L - works via the command line but 
> not from get quotes within gnucash.
> Any ideas as to why I can not get this quote??
> Thanks,
> Neil
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