I'm have some trouble, I'm doing some unix stuff for fun and I can't get something to work

I have a getquote.sh script:
wget "http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=$1" -o /dev/null -O quote
echo `echo $1; egrep "Last Trade:" quote | cut -d ">" -f 3 | cut -d "<" -f 1`

to get the current trading price and I have a portfolio file with the ABBR, price and shares like:
GOOG 300.00 100

I want to get just the first word so I can send the abbr to the getquote.sh script so I did:

gawk '{ print $1 }' portfolio | ./getquote.sh

which should output something but it prints nothing. If I just do the gawk part it will output all the of abbrs in the first column of the file correctly, and the ./getquote.sh GOOG by itself will return the correct output but I can't seem to get them to link up right. Ideas?

Put the command getting the first word into the script itself.
Inside the script,