Finance Quote price format.

Cristian Marchi cri79 at libero.it
Mon Feb 3 08:30:19 EST 2014


Il 03/02/2014 12.15, Alan Hughston ha scritto:
> I have been using Gnucash for a few months and decided to implement finance
> quote.  On 31 January I downloaded the first bunch of prices for stocks.
>
> The format of the price data seems very strange as can be seen from the
> screen shot below.  The price for BHP is correct at
> 36.57              but can anyone explain why it is expressed as
> 36 + 5699999/9999999
>
> Price was downloaded from Yahoo Australia.  I also tried ASX (Australian
> Stock Exchange) with same result.
>
> Gnucash 2.6.0
> Windows 8.1
>
> Thanks in anticipation of enlightenment.
> Alan
>
> PS.  ASX appears to have a limit of 10 stocks per download run.  More than
> 10 stocks and you start getting error messages in the price editor.  Yahoo
> limit is higher, I havent hit the limit.
>
> [image: Inline image 1]
>
>
This has been answered recently: please install the 2.6.1 GnuCash 
version and you will see that the bug is fixed.

Regards
Cristian


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