Problem w/current Price of TXN

[David T.]

TXN = Texas Instruments

> On Nov 4, 2016, at 8:48 PM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
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>> On Nov 4, 2016, at 4:52 AM, David T. via gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
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>> Hi Jay,
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>> I see the same results. Interestingly, looking at a chart on Yahoo Finance also shows an empty chart after 10/28. Not sure what is going on with that stock. 
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>> The NYSE designation is local to your installation of GnuCash. I say this because I have my TXN security set up as NASDQGS, and it also stops on the 28th. So, probably it has less to do with GnuCash, and more to do with something about TXN “Out There.” Perhaps someone with more inside knowledge of GnuCash and Finance::Quote can fill us in.
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>> I believe that Finance::Quote only uses the ticker symbol to retrieve price data; if so, then the exchange namespace won’t actually matter.
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> Uhh, what company is this supposed to be? COM doesn't seem to be a registered ticker symbol. I get no response at all from gnc-fq-helper and both Yahoo! and Google point me at Comcast, whose symbol is CMCSA.
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> It's correct that F::Q uses only the ticker symbol. We don't even pass the category to it.
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> Regards,
> John Ralls
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