[chomp] your input data:

chomp(@stocks = );

Finance::Quote returns the data even though you have the linefeeds, but your for loop does not access the data because the hash keys do not have linefeeds.

Your code worked for me. I used it to look up Google's stock, and got a correct value of 390.

I think your problem lies in your file - for some reason, perl isn't reading in the values from the file as you expect it would. Since you (and I) hard code a variable, and it works fine, plus the fact that I don't know what your /scripts/test.txt file looks like, I suspect it's something with that file.

Here's the code I got to work, with comments. I included some code you can run to help confirm if it's reading in the contents of the file correctly.

#!/usr/bin/perl

use Finance::Quote;
use Carp;

# This should give you more info if it couldn't read the file
open SLIST, <, "/scripts/test.txt"
        or croak "Cannot open file - $!\n";
@stocks = ;
close (SLIST);

# This will confirm that the stocks read in from the file are 
#  what you expect
print "Checking stocks: ";
for my $stock (@stocks) {
        print "$stock ";
}
print "\n";

# the following code (uncommented) worked fine for me. 
#   It got google's stock quote correctly
#@stocks = ("GOOG");

$q = Finance::Quote->new;
$cc = 'usa';
$symb = 'WTVN.PK';  # What is this used for?  If not needed, good to delete it

%myhash = $q->fetch($cc,@stocks);

foreach $ans (@stocks){
        print $ans ."-". $myhash{$ans,'price'};
}