Re: currency linked to a stock

2014-12-20 Thread Herbert Thoma
Am 17.12.2014 23:53, schrieb Sébastien de Menten: On Yahoo! Finance, there are multiple symbols for Yahoo! Inc in function of the exchange (YHOO for Nasdaq, YHOO.BA for buenos aires, YHO.DE. For XETRA,...). YHOO on Nasdaq would presumably by the original stock in USD. For YHOO.BA you would get

currency linked to a stock

2014-12-17 Thread Sébastien de Menten
Hello, There is no currency explicitly linked to a given stock (is this correct?). As a result, one can attach to a given stock multiple prices in multiple commodities. For instance, YHOO (which is traded in USD) could have a price in CAD if entered manually (in the price editor or through a

Re: currency linked to a stock

2014-12-17 Thread John Ralls
On Dec 17, 2014, at 1:28 PM, Sébastien de Menten sdemen...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, There is no currency explicitly linked to a given stock (is this correct?). As a result, one can attach to a given stock multiple prices in multiple commodities. For instance, YHOO (which is traded in

Re: currency linked to a stock

2014-12-17 Thread Sébastien de Menten
On Yahoo! Finance, there are multiple symbols for Yahoo! Inc in function of the exchange (YHOO for Nasdaq, YHOO.BA for buenos aires, YHO.DE. For XETRA,...). Should all these stocks be the same commodity in GnuCash (with then multiples prices in function of the currency) ? Or should they be