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Ticker symbol.
by nodesocket 8y ago
Ticker symbol.
- chrisseaton 8y agoIt's just 'F' isn't it? Why add a dollar? And why not just more simply write 'Ford'?
- scintill76 8y ago'Cause you gotta be trendy, like referring to cities by their airport code.
- Washuu 8y agoActually the $ helps with search engines and actually helps to indicate to me that the author meant a stock symbol instead of a bunch of random letters.
- chrisseaton 8y ago> actually helps to indicate to me that the author meant a stock symbol instead of a bunch of random letters Which really just takes us back to... why not just write 'Ford'?
- bhandziuk 8y agoYeah but F, o, r and d are pretty random.
- ebbv 8y agoBecause people think by referring to a company by its ticker symbol makes them seem like they are more of an expert.
- hindsightRegret 8y agoOr, it allows you to type faster and hyperlink on $TWTR.
- walshemj 8y agoWell if you where an employee of a listed company and did not know your employers SEDOL (or eqvielent) id start to question your commitment :-) I have had a job where I quickly scanned the FT copy on reception as a regular thing - just in case they had brought another acquisition and our team (in house consultancy) needed to get involved with them.
- ebbv 8y agoI actually did work for Ford for a few years in the 90s, and I still would never refer to the company by its ticker symbol. That's just stupid.
- dzhiurgis 8y ago$GOOG will show the stock info immediatelly if you searched that.
- a_t48 8y agoI mean, so does searching GOOG - https://www.google.com/search?q=GOOG https://www.google.com/search?q=GOOG ...or F - https://www.google.com/search?q=F https://www.google.com/search?q=F
- 8xde0wcNwpslOw 8y agoThe latter certainly depends on Google's algorithms. For me, Ford stock is nowhere to be seen (unlike with "$F", for which it is shown).
- dzhiurgis 8y agoYou might be right. A surefire way to get the chart is specifiying exchange and ticker, for example: nyse:crm