Archive for the ‘Trivia’ Category

Not an easy question to answer. Unless you go through every stock and check how many historic splits that stock had so far, then there is no way you can know which stock has the most reverse splits. I first thought that the stock which has the most...

I was just reading an article on Bloomberg on how Venezuela decided to repatriate its gold deposited in foreign banks. Apparently, Venezuela owns 365 tons of gold, and 211 tons of this gold is deposited in foreign banks. In any case, the article made...

A curious (yet useless) question that goes through every investor's mind at one point is "what is the average stock price on New York Stock Exchange?" Clearly, a quick search on the Internet reveals nothing, because although many people wanted to know...

We have all heard about the phone hacking scandal, which was done by one of Murdoch little tabloid newspapers that doesn't seem to exist anymore. The scandal has shaken Murdoch's media empire so bad that the losses are now astronomical. To make things...

While reading a Bloomberg article on how the default in Greece caused a loss of $1 trillion dollar in the global equity market, a question came into my mind, what is the total value of the stock market? In other words, what is the sum of the market...

June 25, 2011 | In: Trivia

What Is Airbus Stock Ticker?

I just learned today that Air Asia ordered 200 Airbus 320 planes. Apparently, the deal was closed 2 days ago (June 23rd, 2011). Immediately, I wanted to know what Airbus stock ticker is, just to see how much the stock has jumped for this huge order...

June 16, 2011 | In: Technology, Trivia

Is Google Down?

I thought I'd never live to see this problem happen, but apparently Google is down. I'm not able to access it from any of my PCs, nor from any browser. Now it's up, but it was down for nearly 3 minutes, and that's saying something for the most...

Long term investors seeks stocks with the high dividend yield, as they prefer to make money on a recurring basis rather than selling and buying stock to make money (which can be very risky). Some stocks can provide investors with dividend yields up to...

After my previous list of one letter stock symbols, I have decided to find which stock has the longest ticker symbol. I thought I'm going to find a stock with 10 characters, something like ABCDEFGHIJ, but I was wrong. The longest ticker symbol for any...

Since it's Saturday, I figured I publish something light and, of course, interesting to the investors. Today I will focus on the oldest listed stocks in the NYSE and the NASDAQ. So, what is the oldest listed stock on the NYSE? The oldest listed...

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