Inconsistent currency conversion with Finance::Quote

[Peter Vittali]

On 12/01/2010 05:33 PM, Frank H. Ellenberger wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>
> Am Mittwoch, 1. Dezember 2010 um 14:37:54 schrieb Peter Vittali:
>    
>> Hi
>> I believe there is currency conversion issue related the way yahoo
>> presents rates ( and Finance::Quotes therefore uses them) :
>>
>> EUR/CHF = 1.31  , 1 Euro equals 1.31 CHF
>> SEK/CHF = 14.4  , would suggest that 1 SEK ( swedish kroner ) equals
>> 14.4 CHF, which is wrong because it takes _100_ SEK to buy 14.4 CHF
>>
>> There seems to be a factor 100 missing in the case of SEK ( and
>> similarily for NOK , norwegian kroner )
>>
>> Am I missing something ?
>>      
> The problem seems to be at yahoo. If you add SEK/CHF at
> http://finance.yahoo.com/currency-investing, you get 14.3070, while for
> EUR/CHF the answer is 1.3103. So you should ask finance.yahoo.com, if they
> will fix it or what the policy behind that behavior is.
>
> In the second case you should file a bug report at
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/finance-quote/
>
>    
>> Thanks for your help
>>      
> HTH
> Frank
>    
Hi Frank
Thanks, in the mean time I found out, that the conversion NOK/USD works 
as expected, but NOK/CHF is wrong.
So this seems to be indeed a yahoo finance problem .

Thanks for your help

Peter