Online Price Retrieval not working for US markets (and only US markets)

[Erik Colson]

Wei Chian Ong <weichianong at yahoo.com.au> writes:

> I am able to get stock price updates for all markets, ASX, SGX, LSE
> using Finance::Quote and ActivePerl, but for some reason, I am unable
> to get US stock prices. I constantly get the message "Unable to
> retrieve quotes for these items:"
>
> I cannot understand why it works for every market except the US
> markets. I have used every single US source, as well as trying
> multiple. I have tried the local timezone as well as the NY
> timezone. I have tried uninstalling Perl and re-installing the latest
> version, both regular and 64 bit. I have tried un-installing GNU Cash
> and re-installing, the original version was 2.6.1 and I just installed
> 2.6.3. I have absolutely no idea what step to try next.
>
> If anyone could possibly point me in the right direction it would be much appreciated.

Hi,

What are the _exact_ symbols you are trying to retrieve ?

best
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erik colson