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What cut stock listings mean to readers

Dan Wallach of The Beaumont Enterprise in Texas writes Sunday about how cut stock listings affect one of its longtime readers.

Wallach wrote, “But he can’t find his particular stocks in The Enterprise’s listings anymore, which are 150 stocks drawn from the Dow Jones Industrial Average, as many of the local businesses we could include that are publicly traded, and rounded out by what are considered to be widely held stocks.

“Bloomberg, Stout said, also cut back on its listings. He called that outfit’s offices in New York asking whether it would restore that information and the person who answered told him that if enough people called they’d think about it.

“In short, he shouldn’t hold his breath.

“If he does get Internet service, he visit beaumontenterprise.com where, at the top left of the site, there is a link called ‘My Stocks’ where you can watch your own stocks.”

Read more here.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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bergian says:
December 5, 2007 at 12:52 am
Aside from the garbled grammar and his bizarre statement that he managed to cull 150 stocks from the 30 on the DJIA, I would challenge him to prove that Bloomberg has cut back on listings. Bloomberg has tickers for tens of thousands of companies, bonds, money markets, mortgage packages, you name it. What is he seeking?