W

What is ‘W’

A Nasdaq symbol specifying that a particular security is a warrant.

Explaining ‘W’

Nasdaq-listed securities have four or five characters. If a fifth letter appears, it identifies the issue as other than a single issue of common stock or capital stock.

Further Reading

  • Nonlinearity and complex dynamics in economics and finance – books.google.com [PDF]
  • Pathways to randomness in the economy: emergent nonlinearity and chaos in economics and finance – www.jstor.org [PDF]
  • School finance: The economics and politics of public education. – eric.ed.gov [PDF]
  • Neural networks in finance and economics forecasting – www.worldscientific.com [PDF]
  • An empirical comparison of published replication research in accounting, economics, finance, management, and marketing – www.sciencedirect.com [PDF]
  • Causality, chaos, explanation and prediction in economics and finance – books.google.com [PDF]