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Google Docs glitch and the TLT ticker

Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2011 9:49 pm
by dualstow
Today, Google docs (spreadsheets) is giving the company "Theralese Technologies" for the ticker TLT instead of the correct iShares fund  :)
That is, when I write

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=GoogleFinance(A10;"name")
"Theralese Technologies" is the output instead of iShares Barclays 20+ Year Treas Bond.

Does anyone else see this glitch?

In yahoo finance, where I don't have this problem with TLT, I am unable to find out what the real ticker is for Theralese.

Edit: oh gosh. VTI is showing up as Valdor Technology International Inc. and IAU As Intrepid Mines Limited. Has google docs been hacked?
Edit: Hmm, I think these are being read as if they are Canadian companies with a .V appended. VTI.V really is Valdor Tech.
Feel free to delete this thread.

Re: Google Docs glitch and the TLT ticker

Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2011 6:41 pm
by dualstow
They fixed it.

Re: Google Docs glitch and the TLT ticker

Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2011 6:55 pm
by smurff
I'm glad.  It's scary when that happens.  We get so used to using alphabets to describe the companies we invest in, it's unnerving when those alphabets come up with someone else's name appended to them.

Re: Google Docs glitch and the TLT ticker

Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2011 12:07 pm
by dualstow
Yeah, and I couldn't understand why google finance was producing the right results outside of google docs. Odd.