Yahoo finance data fails on market cap

[jseabold]

Market cap returns a "B" etc. that needs to be parsed before the result is coerced into a DataFrame.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/pydata/KOdYtiw7cE8

[jreback]

I actually wouldn't do this, rather just return a non-coercable value as the original value (rather than nan); its tricky to know what fields actually return; leave it up to the user.

[jseabold]

Yeah, I agree. I have no idea what this could return. So just change the except part of the float call.

[gary-dalton]

I might take a look at this issue. As noted, we don't know what it might possibly return but we do know it returns a "B" that can be parsed properly.

[jreback]

closed by #8742