The CNBC Ticker is a computer simulation of ticker tapes shown on the lower part of the TV screen on the business television channel CNBC from Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, in the U.S. The CNBC Ticker shows security and index symbols just like old ticker tapes that received information by telegraph, but unlike those ticker tapes, it is digital.
The Ticker is sponsored by companies like United Technologies or Charles Schwab, and shows commercial ads from those companies every now and then.
The security identifiers used on the CNBC Ticker are taken from nomenclatures used by third-party companies like Reuters, the New York Stock Exchange, the NASDAQ or the AMEX.
The ticker is composed of a white-background upper band and a dark-blue-background lower band.
Upper band
CNBC Market Summary
The upper band shows a CNBC Market Summary one minute after every third of an hour (:01, :21, :41), with the symbols of the main indices, e.g.:
- NYSE NYSE Composite Index
- UP number of NYSE companies whose bid price is up during a day
- DN number of NYSE companies whose bid price is down during a day
- TICK Tick index for the NYSE (TICK = UP - DN)
- VAL ValueLine Index
- DOT dot-com (Internet) company index
- SOX semiconductor-company index
- OSX oil service index
- OEX Chicago Board Options Exchange index for the S&P 100
Commodity Summary
It also shows a Comodity Summary one minute after every sixth of an hour (:01, :11, :21, :31, :41, :51) with the Reuters Instrument Code symbols of commodity futures contracts and their delivery months, e.g.:
- CLN: crude, light oil (CL) futures for July (N) delivery, traded at the NYMEX
- AIQ: Dow Jones/American International Group commodity index (AI) futures for August (Q) delivery, traded at the CBOT
Incomplete list of commodity futures shown on the CNBC Ticker:
- CD Canadian dollar
- JY Japanese yen
- SF Swiss franc
- HG copper
- PA paladium
- PL platinum
- GC gold
- AL aluminum
- PB pork bellies
- SB sugar #11 (kind of international sugar traded at the New York Coffee, Sugar and Cocoa Exchange
- KC coffee
- CC cocoa
- OJ orange juice
List of delivery month codes:
- January F
- February G
- March H
- April J
- May K
- June M
- July N
- August Q
- September U
- October V
- November X
- December Z
Stocks
During market hours it shows stock symbols of stocks with high trading volumes of the New York Stock Exchange. After market hours it shows an alphabetic list of those symbols. Those symbols have usually three letters, e.g.:
Lower band
Stocks
The lower band shows the stock symbols of the NASDAQ Stock Market and of the American Stock Exchange, e.g.:
AccuWeather forecast
During the CNBC programs Wake-Up Call and Squawk Box and Mad Money early-mornning reruns, the lower band shows weather forecasts of U.S. and European cities made by Pennsylvanian company AccuWeather, with three-letter or two-letter abbreviations somewhat different from the IATA ___location identifiers for cities, e.g.
- NYC New York City
- LA Los Angeles
- LON London
See also
External links
References
- Google Groups : misc.invest.stocks complete January 17, 1996, CNBC Ticker Guide
- NBC Cable Networks - NBCCableinfo.com - CNBC incomplete newer CNBC Ticker Guide