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Re: More FinancialData glitches

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• Subject: [mg121719] Re: More FinancialData glitches
• From: DrMajorBob <btreat1 at austin.rr.com>
• Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 06:21:14 -0400 (EDT)
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• Reply-to: drmajorbob at yahoo.com

As things stand, I'll have to cache FinancialData results MYSELF, to  
protect against these frequent glitches.

Bobby

On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 17:02:59 -0500, DrMajorBob <btreat1 at austin.rr.com>  
wrote:

>> This suggests that the problem may lie with Mathematica,
>> does it not?
>
> It seems that way to me, and besides, if this is "curated" data, Wolfram  
> should cache data to cover for temporary glitches at Yahoo. Old data  
> should be there, even if new data is not.
>
> Bobby
>
> On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 13:41:37 -0500, James Stein <mathgroup at stein.org>  
> wrote:
>
>> This IS curious.
>> Mathematica gets it data from Yahoo (I think);
>> and if you go to the Yahoo Finance site,
>> it DOES recognize JNSGX.
>>
>> This suggests that the problem may lie with Mathematica,
>> does it not?
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 1:13 AM, DrMajorBob <btreat1 at austin.rr.com>  
>> wrote:
>>
>>> This is no longer amusing:
>>>
>>> FinancialData["JNSGX"]
>>>
>>> FinancialData::notent: JNSGX is not a known entity, class, or tag for
>>> FinancialData. Use FinancialData[] for a list of entities. >>
>>>
>>> Bobby
>>>
>>> --
>>> DrMajorBob at yahoo.com
>>>
>>>
>
>


-- 
DrMajorBob at yahoo.com

• References:
  • More FinancialData glitches
    • From: DrMajorBob <btreat1@austin.rr.com>