Friday, April 4, 2014

"How Many Stocks Are in the S&P 500?"

From Crossing Wall Street, Apr. 2:
Here’s a question for you: How many stocks are in the S&P 500?
Starting tomorrow, the answer will be 501. That’s 501 stocks from 500 different companies. Tomorrow marks the debut of Google’s Class C shares.

It gets a little confusing. The Class C are nonvoting and will trade under the GOOG ticker. Up till now, GOOG has been for the A shares. Those A shares will now trade under GOOGL....MORE