Ticker symbol search.QA What Websites do you recommend when looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. a company's stock ticker Stock ticker A letter designation assigned to securities and mutual funds that trade on US financial exchanges. symbol when you only have the company name? --T. Johnson Via the Internet A ticker symbol Ticker Symbol An arrangement of characters (usually letters) representing a particular security listed on an exchange or otherwise traded publicly. When a company issues securities to the public marketplace, it selects an available ticker symbol for its securities which investors is the unique identification that stock exchanges worldwide give each company. For example, Radio One, the black-owned broadcasting company Noun 1. broadcasting company - a company that manages tv or radio stations company - an institution created to conduct business; "he only invests in large well-established companies"; "he started the company in his garage" ranked at No. 8 on the BE INDUSTRIAL/SERVICE 100 list with $344.7 million in revenues, trades on the Nasdaq stock exchange under the ticker symbol ROIAK. You should also be aware that mutual funds, indexes, and futures have ticker symbols as well. If you don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. a company's ticker symbol, you can find it by going to any number of financial Websites and using their "symbol lookup" function. In most cases, all you'll need is the name of the company you're looking for (or even part of the name) and the search function will pull up all similar names in its database. I recommend Yahoo! Finance (http://finance.yahoo.com), which has additional financial tools to help investors research stocks. Another site to explore is the mutual fund research company Morningstar (www.morningstar.com). There you can look up and research mutual fund companies as well as publicly traded corporations. If you aren't satisfied with these sites, try going to your favorite search engine and typing in the company name and the words "ticker symbol." The results should reveal the symbol and any Websites that carry news about the company you're searching for. Mail your money management questions to Ask B.E., BLACK ENTERPRISE 130 Fifth Ave., New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , NY 10011 or send an e-mail to scottm@blackenterprise.com. |
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion