Talk:FTSE 100 Index/Archives/2012

FTSE name
The article begins "Although FTSE is jointly owned by the Financial Times and the London Stock Exchange, the initials are not an acronym nor an initialism and do not stand for "Financial Times Stock Exchange". They are borrowed from FTSE's two parent companies."

This seems a contradiction. The initials are borrowed from the two parent companies' --what? names? In which case surely FTSE is an initialism and does indeed stand for Financial Times Stock Exchange.

Thoughts? Vaitalien (talk)

Dunno why there is an error but FTSE DOES STAND FOR FINANCIAL TIMES STOCK EXCHANGE —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.31.68.192 (talk) 14:31, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

Source? Someone has changed it on the main page, but it now sounds very disjointed and confusing, and is annoyingly uncited! I'm not a wikipedian so I don't know, but is it generally frowned upon for articles to have citations in their introductions? (as it is with abstracts in academic literature) If not, I feel it really needs a citation. If citations are not allowed in introductory text, I recommend it be removed and placed further down the article where it can offer a citation. Vaitalien (talk) 18:55, 31 March 2011 (UTC)

Update: Just ran a quick search for "ftse financial times stock exchange" on Google Scholar and I'm seeing a number of papers and journal articles which refer to it as both interchangeably. In addition, results for the same search terms under a standard Google search seem to suggest (rather strongly) that FTSE does indeed stand for Financial Times Stock Exchange. If someone more knowledgeable in these things than I would like to change the article, I'm sure you can find a citation using Google Scholar of sufficient credibility Vaitalien (talk) 19:10, 31 March 2011 (UTC)

I agreed that section needs to be changed. It seems like somebody's pet peeve, but gets much more attention than it deserves given the subject. Also, I agree that if the origin of the word was (at least in part), due to the Financial Times and [London] Stock Exchange, it seems as though it WAS an acroynm. What exactly is the author desperately trying to refute? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 120.16.76.29 (talk) 11:25, 14 July 2011 (UTC)

Untitled
I have updated as of the 27th of this month and am creating pages for every company, changing their listing to +(plc) to differentiate from other entities with same name. Calexico (Talk) 10:55, 27 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Out of date
due to the change of included companies (9/1/09) there is an entirely inapproperiate section in this article. Could someone please edit. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.69.138.224 (talk) 21:39, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

In a somewhat related matter to the above, I've edited out a comment about the Pennon Group ('a target that Pennon Group, the current most highly valued contituent of the FTSE 250 looks unlikely to meet') who are in the FTSE 100 according to their Wikipedia page. --Neil (talk) 13:29, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Listing by value
Is it possible to list the FTSE companies by value? Has it been done elsewhere?

Dual listings
Dicussion transferred here from user talk.

Hi. The dual listings for Schroders and Royal Dutch Shell are correct. 100 companies, but 102 listings. Mark83 22:17, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
 * People want to know the names of the companies. Putting the complications in brackets is quite enough. Carina22 16:45, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
 * These aren't "complications", the two changes you keep reverting are factually correct. You can't just change the composition of the FTSE 100 to conform to your own standard. The FTSE 100 does actually have 102 listings, i.e. 100 companies, two with dual listings makes 102. Every listing of the FTSE 100 (e.g.  )  currently shows 102 listings, this is an encylopedia and must be factually correct. Mark83 18:07, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Further to this, the official FTSE website list "FTSE 100 Index Constituents" shows Royal Dutch Shell and Schroders with two listings. Mark83 22:11, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
 * The list is headed "companies" and it is the companies that matter. I am not removing information, just arranging it better than other sources. I will clarify the note. Carina22 17:31, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

Formal company names
see: Types of companies

FTSE All-Share
The article states ' the FT All Share Index (which incorporates all listed companies)'

I don't think this is correct.

Firstly some companies can be listed but are ineligble for inclusion in the indices.

Secondly there is the FTSE Fledgling index - The FTSE Fledgling consists of all UK companies which qualify for inclusion in UK Index Series but are too small to be included in the FTSE All-Share Index.

Indy 100
I added a short page on the Indy 100. Would it make sense to have a short "criticism" section here linking to it, and explaining the reasoning behind the new index? Steved424 22:15, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
 * I don't think it should be called "criticism". The FTSE is a market weighted index of UK based stocks, and it is not a meaningful "criticism" that they don't reflect the balance of the UK economy, just a fact of life. If you want a different kind of index you can have one, but it is tendentious to call it a criticism of the FTSE. Greg Grahame 22:20, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:FTSE.PNG
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Computation
How is the index computed? Would somebody like to write a section about it? (Sloman (talk) 18:05, 24 November 2007 (UTC))

Would it not help to say when companies inclusion / exclusion is computed, as it only occurs every ? as far as I know. And for Former companies would it not be a good idea to say when they dropped out ? as well as why. BulldozerD11 (talk) 15:18, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

This index is market weighted, details here: http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:Wboks8ahPhkJ:www.ftse.com/Indices/UK_Indices/Downloads/FTSE100_Index_Factsheet.pdf+ftse+100+market+weighted&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=us&client=safari www.ftse.com/Indices/UK_Indices/Downloads/FTSE100_Index_Factsheet. pdf 12.125.134.114 (talk) 14:49, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Market capitalisation table
This, for some reason, displays at the bottom of the page instead of in its section. I've looked at the source, and can't see any immediate problem, but my Wiki markup isn't up to scratch yet. RaceProUK 10:21, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

I couldn't quite understand the above comment but anyway. I've looked at the quoted source page for the market capitalisation figures and despite looking at a number of links on that page, I couldn't see where the information came from. Could someone please show me the exact link? Ojcookies (talk) 20:22, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

FTSE4Good
I'm fairly new to wikipedia, but was surprised to find there wasn't a page for the FTSE4Good index. I think one was created in the past, but was deleted due to copyright issues. What are these issues? Can they be overcome? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.153.106.254 (talk) 10:03, 13 August 2009 (UTC)


 * I've created FTSE4Good Index as a stub. It needs expansion in particular to explain the selection criteria. Rd232 talk 00:36, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

USD or GBP?
What is the unit currency of the calculation of FTSE? (As I see, it's missing from the article.) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.223.248.125 (talk) 22:11, 3 March 2012 (UTC)

The FT 30
"[...] was established in 1935 and nowadays is largely obsolete due to its redundancy." Seems a bit vague - can anyone elaborate? 141.92.129.41 (talk) 11:22, 20 September 2012 (UTC)