How to Quickly Get Stock Prices from Safari URL Bar on Mac

How to Quickly Get Stock Prices from Safari URL Bar on Mac

Safari for Mac can quickly give you stock price quotes for any ticker symbol right from the address bar, offering yet another way to keep track of equities for those who like to follow the day-to-day ride of the stock market. Of course you can just google or web-search for a ticker symbol too, but a Safari feature called Safari Suggestions offers an ultrafast way of getting the price of a stock without having to search the web, all you need is the ticker symbol. This is a super simple trick, heres how it works: All modern versions of Safari for Mac should support this feature: Thats all there is to it. You can check just about any stock symbol this way, and most ETF and mutual funds should work too, though I have found there are some that are not detected as ticker symbols properly and dont show up with a price quote. Note that if you disabled Safari Suggestions on the Mac then the stock ticker symbol lookup trick will not work. Those settings can be accessed in the Safari Preferences and are enabled by default, but some users may have turned the feature off , something that can occasionally happen on older Macs or slower internet connections.The Safari Suggestions feature is different from the as you type. Each can be enabled or disable independently if desired, much like you can . This is just one of myriad ways to get stock quotes on a Mac, you can also get current prices of ticker symbols , from the Notification Center Stocks section, with a Dashboard widget, or too. So whether youre a bull or bear, youre never far from knowing where the market is moving, or just in case you want to know if you want a subtle reminder to invest for the future.