London Stock Exchange Quotes

[David T.]

Yahoo lists RDSA with a ticker RDSA.NX -- does that work for you?

David

--- On Mon, 3/7/11, David W.M. Denholm <David at pogus.co.uk> wrote:

> From: David W.M. Denholm <David at pogus.co.uk>
> Subject: London  Stock Exchange Quotes
> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Date: Monday, March 7, 2011, 1:39 PM
> Being relatively new to GnuCash, I
> would be grateful for advice from
> someone who has done this before me.  I have the
> Finance::Quote module
> installed and it seems to be working as it does get
> currency values and
> works for the example AMZN and IBM shares.
> 
>  
> 
> I wish to retrieve prices in Pounds for Shares traded on
> the London
> Stock Exchange.  (Let us take as an example Royal
> Dutch Shell 'A'
> shares)
> 
>  
> 
> Can anyone advise me of the correct value to insert for:
> 
> Abbreviation - I believe this is RDSA (also I have added
> the ISIN)
> (Would anyone recommend CUSIP or ISIN over the other?)
> 
> Type - (I don't know what to enter to get a share from
> London) ('LSE'
> and 'LON' don't seem to work)
> 
> Quote Source Information - What should this be for London
> ('Trustnet'
> doesn't help (It is not a unit Trust), nor does 'Yahoo
> Europe') - How
> can I edit this?
> 
>  
> 
> What other settings would anyone recommend?
> 
>  
> 
> I was unable to find the Hackers Page for Finance::Quote
> hence my
> request to the experts.
> 
>  
> 
> With thanks
> 
> David Denholm
> 
> 
> 
>  
> 
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