re: Anyone have experience with the app WaitrPosted by Statestreet on 8/23/15 at 10:49 am to Uncle JackD. I used Waitr app this morning to get Nelson donuts delivered to my door. Took about 20 minutes from when I ordered til I got the delivery.
Numbers of Stocks. More companies list shares on the NASDAQ than on the NYSE. As of 2012, the NASDAQ included the stocks of 2,322 U.S. companies and 288 foreign companies trading as American Depository Receipts, for a total of 2,610. The NYSE listed 1,816 domestic companies and 524 foreign companies, for a total of 2,340.
The most widely used indicator of the overall condition of the stock market, a price-weighted average of 30 actively traded blue chip stocks, primarily industrials. The 30 stocks are chosen by the editors of the Wall Street Journal (which is published by Dow Jones & Company), a practice that dates back to the beginning of the century. The Dow was officially started by Charles Dow in 1896, at which time it consisted of only 11 stocks.