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Aapl?
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These things are not meant to make sense. 
The ticker symbol for AT&T is "T" -- try to make some sense of that!
The ticker symbol for AT&T is "T" -- try to make some sense of that!
I believe in the newspaper aren't the stock quotes in alphabetical order? So maybe this way they could be closer to the top?? That's all I can think of
Why is AAPL called AAPL and not APPL or even APLE?
Doesn't make sense to me
Because that's the NASDAQ listing name chosen by the company when they went public. Could be a "top of the listings" thing too, beginning with two A's.
It's true, once upon a time, the newspapers did list stock tables in alphabetical order by ticker symbol, but this certainly didn't make stocks easier to find in the tables.