diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 70c30bf..2baf2c3 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Package: TTR
 Type: Package
 Title: Technical Trading Rules
-Version: 0.24.3.1
+Version: 0.24.4
 Authors@R: c(
   person(given="Joshua", family="Ulrich", role=c("cre","aut"), email="josh.m.ulrich@gmail.com"),
   person(given=c("Ethan","B."), family="Smith", role="ctb")
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 4478369..1404a3c 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Changes in 0.24.X
+# Changes in 0.24.4
 
 * Added Ethan B. Smith as a contributor. Thanks Ethan!
 
@@ -11,9 +11,13 @@
 
 ### BUG FIXES
 
+* Fix `stockSymbols()` for ticker "NA". `read.table()` converts the string "NA"
+  to a missing value (NA) because `na.strings = "NA"` by default. This causes
+  an issue because there's actually a company with "NA" for the ticker. (#128)
+
 - `CTI()` did not pad its result with leading NA when the input was not
   coerced to an xts object. This was different from other TTR functions
-  (e.g. `SMA()`, `RSI()`, `ROC()`). (#127).
+  (e.g. `SMA()`, `RSI()`, `ROC()`). (#127)
 
 - Removed the `VMA()` function, which was never correct because the
   results made no sense.