Finance::Quote::FinanceCanada(3)

NAME
Finance::Quote::FinanceCanada - Obtain stock and fund prices from www.financialpost.com

SYNOPSIS
    use Finance::Quote;

    $q = Finance::Quote->new;

    # Can failover to other methods
    %quotes = $q->fetch("canada", "stock_code");

    # Use this module only
    %quotes = $q->fetch("financecanada", "stock_code");

DESCRIPTION
This module obtains information about Canadian stocks and funds from www.financialpost.com. The information source "canada" can be used if the information source is unimportant, or "financecanada" to specifically use www.financialpost.com.

STOCK_CODE
Canadian stocks/mutual funds do not have a unique symbol identifier on www.financialpost.com. For example, the symbol "T" can refer to stock quotes from either "Telus" on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TOR) or "AT&T Inc." on NYSE. The simplest way to fetch the ID for a particular stock/fund is to go to www.financialpost.com, search for your particular stock/fund, and note the symbol 'id' in the site URL.

Note that www.financialpost.com uses different URLs for stocks and funds. This module attempts to guess which URL to use based regular expressions tests on the symbol.

LABELS RETURNED
Information available from financecanada may include the following labels:

method source name symbol currency date nav last price

SEE ALSO
Finance Canada.com website - http://www.financialpost.com/

Finance::Quote