Issue with Yahoo Finance data

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A lot of UK stocks are today 6th Feb 2024 showing huge losses suddenly. This seems due to an issue on Yahoo Finance.

Please see one example below:

The previous price quoted is 354.36

The last price quoted on 4th Feb is 3.57

The decimal price is in the incorrect place.

I have emailed Yahoo Support to see if they will resolve it.

I wonder if Portfolio Performance could have a way of preventing this flowing through because Stockmarket Eye which I believe uses the same source is unaffected?

I will await a response from Yahoo Finance.

Thanks

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I’ve emailed them too. It seems to have affected any funds (not checked stocks) which are denominated (i.e. current price shown and information under the holding name shows GBp (GBX)/ pence).

Historic data since the beginning of February changed to GBP/£ with earlier data unchanged. A complete mess. e,g 0P00013P6I.L

Funds which are denominated in £ not affected (e.g. VWRP.L).

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I also had this issue with the price of a similar fund on Yahoo Finance (0P00013P6J.L) suddenly changing from GBp/GBX to GBP about 1 week ago.

The issue appears to have been rectified from 8th Feb, at least for this fund.

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When I looked this morning, some of the funds had no historic data and were still showing crazy % increases etc (affecting Apple Stocks also).

Went back and pulled data for all my funds and I guess they were busy correcting the bad data this morning, because it seems to be back. 7 Feb data missing for most of my funds however.

Worse is that there seems to be no data before 1 Jan and it won’t allow a start data for data before 2 Feb. Let’s hope they’re still just in the middle of fixing it.

Cheers
Stuart

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I also have the same issue using the yahoo finance API via Python. I spent 1 hour debugging my code, and finally realised that the data is incorrect from Yahoo Finance rather than in my application code.

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Appears to be fixed now.

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The opposite problem?

I installed PP for the first time yesterday, and set up a single account and stock (City of London, CTY.L) with prices from Yahoo.

I immediately ran into what seems to be the inverse of your issue, i.e.-

Because Yahoo finance return prices in pence (GBP/100) my first transaction showed a purchase of £9k in shares immediately being valued at £900k !

I assume this is fixable, because it sounds as it WAS working for you. I will go on a hunt through the user docs, but it souds as if there are problems in this area at the moment.

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If you get quotes in GBp you have to set up the stock in GBX, not in GBP.

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Thanks for the tip, I would have spent some time looking for that I suspect.