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It's what business newspapers do, especially online, as the name serves as a microformat causing the newspaper's CMS to automatically inject ticker information either on-hover or as an embedded aside.



Some ticker names have no relation to the company name though! You often have to go and look them up.


Cloudfare has 'NET' IIRC. Funny!




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