Read the page about watching market indicators. Click Nasdaq Index . The tech-heavy Nasdaq exchange is leading the overall market decline. Reading Stock Quotes End this week's lesson by clicking on the Ameritrade Learning to Invest tab, and then click Following a Stock . This section will show you how to read a newspaper stock table as well as an online stock quote.
Some newspapers report on stocks of local interest.
Browse a current issue of The Columbus Dispatch and look in the stock quotes page for stocks of local interest. Pick one or two and read the stock reports. If the newspaper does not report stocks of local interest, pick two of the stocks on the DJIA , read the report, and answer the same questions.