#4 Tables and Tickers

All Financial Papers have a table showing the shares traded along with a few columns besides them. The image here is self explanatory. More often than not, the newpaper will carry a small header/footer explaining the relevant details. The most important ones are Open, High, Low, Close, Volume.

Apart from all these they also carry one term called P/E ratio. This is the foundation for the understanding of the stock markets. I have omitted this one because I have not dealt with this topic yet.

The TV channels show a strip, which shows the last traded price during the market hours, delayed by a few minutes(usually 2-15 minutes). In the off market hours, They show the last closing price of the stock.