The Times to End Daily Stock Listings in April and Expand Data on Web Site

[swag]

I hope I can train my blindfolded. dart-throwing monkey to hit an LCD display; maybe the NYT dumbshits will learn to use actual tickers instead of their indecipherable abbreviations:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/14/business/media/14times.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

By JULIE BOSMAN
Published: March 14, 2006

Beginning April 4, The New York Times will stop publishing daily stock listings on Tuesdays through Saturdays and will offer a new package of interactive tools and market information on its Web site, the paper announced yesterday.

The Times will replace the tables in the newspaper with two pages of market and economic information, including performance listings of the top 100 stocks in the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index, market analysis, mutual fund information, charts tracking individual company performance and lists of foreign currency exchange rates.

The newspaper said that the features to be added to its Web site would include investment tools, breaking financial news and individual portfolio information.

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[Atman]

1. Don't tell me, let me guess...

They'll put it in their Paid Subscription section.

[swag]

2. Yeah, that'll pull the subscribers.

They're a bunch of smarties at the New York Times.

[Lifelong Protester]

3. WTF??

Is this the new trend now? A lot of papers are pulling daily stock information. My husband HATES the computer, won't touch it. And he's the economist in the family!!

Will the WSJ follow suit?

[amerikat]

4. That's great news.

It's big waste of trees to print all that info that most folks don't read.