All South African equity quotes have no currency (missing isQuotedIn)

duncan.sands
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For example, https://permid.org/1-55838801605 has no currency. I checked every RIC for the JNB exchange, and none of them have a currency. Any idea why this is and when it will be fixed?

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  • Christiaan Meihsl
    Christiaan Meihsl LSEG
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    @duncan.sands,

    This is due to a bug in the
    currencies extractions. We aim to fix it in one of the coming code releases. Tentative date for a fix is beginning of Q3 2019.

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  • duncan.sands
    duncan.sands Explorer
    https://community.developers.refinitiv.com/discussion/comment/41007#Comment_41007

    Thanks for your helpful reply. I'm guessing that the root cause is
    that the stocks are all quoted in cents (0.01 Rand) rather than in Rand.
    I noticed something similar in London: when a stock is quoted in
    pennies rather than in pounds, the currency is likewise missing. Are you
    going to fix it by adding cents, pennies etc as currencies, or will you
    instead say the currencies are Rand, GBP etc, perhaps with an
    additional field for the factor (eg 0.01)?

  • Christiaan Meihsl
    Christiaan Meihsl LSEG

    @duncan.sands, you are welcome. I have no information on the nature of the fix, but will try to find out.

  • Salman Rooman.Jaffer
    Salman Rooman.Jaffer LSEG

    Hi @Christiaan Meihsl thanks for highlighting this. I did see @duncan.sands comment last week. As we see AAPL has a currency in the quote, so likewise we would expect other stocks such as those listed on the JSE to also have currencies in the quote. I've checked with our content team to see how we can get this populated for you.

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