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Stock Market Symbol for Microsoft

Microsoft - one of the best known names on Planet Earth but how many people would recognise the group of letters MSFT? MSFT is the Stock Market Symbol for the Microsoft Corporation. When an investor wants to check the current price of his stock, or find news of companies in which he holds stock or perhaps is thinking about investing in, he will go to an appropriate web site and, in the search box, type the Stock Market Symbol of the company concerned. Next to that, there’ll usually be check boxes asking the searcher to nominate share price or news.
If the investor doesn’t know the stock symbol for the company he wants to look up, there’ll commonly be another search option for him to find it. There are numerous web sites offering services like that. The most obvious ones are those of the stock exchanges themselves. NYSE (New York Stock Exchange), the Toronto stock exchange, NASDAQ, the Paris Bourse, London, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Tokyo all have web sites that will have the information sought. There are plenty of other places to get stock prices and news too. Sometimes, the web pages of the exchanges themselves can be a little daunting - too busy and perhaps with far more detail than most people need or want. The option then is the web site of a financial publication like the Wall Street Journal or in Europe, The Financial Times (London) or La Monde (Paris). Then there are the magazines like Businessweek and Investors Chronicle. Last in the possibilities for finding news and prices of stock, are the Internet Service Providers like AOL, Yahoo and of course MSN!
For the ordinary individual who holds a small number of shares in a company, these Internet Portals are probably as good a place as any to get information. Usually, the home page will offer a link to a “Finance” or “Business” page which will then have stock market data (as well as currency exchange rates) very prominently offered and in a format that’s easy to use and understand. As it does every year, Businessweek has collaborated with Interbrand, a leading brand consultancy, to produce a list of the most valuable brand names in the world. The formula they use is complex and involves both financial and marketing factors. The resulting table, if not God to marketing professionals, is at least the Archangel Gabriel. As usual, the most valuable brand world-wide is Coca Cola with Microsoft in second place.
Stock in this giant of the computing industry is currently languishing a little. Whilst the business is making very good profits, the brokers and analysts are concerned that growth hasn’t been at the levels it ought to for such a dynamic operator in such a dynamic activity. Microsoft have been reported as suggesting that the company is already so huge that spectacular growth is not a realistic proposition however, there are plenty of new products and services in design and development which will kick-start growth in 2006. If those predictions are proven accurate, there may well be many more of us typing MSFT into the search boxes of our browsers.

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