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

[nvsoar]

On 10/5/2014 2:37 PM, Erik Colson wrote:
> 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
Try entering the stock id characters in upper case.
nvsoar