The first column, under 'stock', is the name of the company...for example in this case 'Starbucks.'  The second column is the symbol of the company, SBUX.  It is used as a reference and all the financial organizations use this abreviation when talking to one another.  The volume of traded shares for SBUX on this particular day was 158,451,000 shares.  It is written as 158451 as an abreviation.  This stock closed the previous day at $28.17 per share which was a change of $0.47 per share from the previous day's close.

 

Other possible information that can be provided, depending upon the financial publication, can include dividends paid, yield (dividend/price), earnings per share, relative price strength, industry group relative strength and max/min prices for the past year (52 week Hi/Lo). 

 

Your regional or city publication may have some financial information but the serious investor needs to subscribe to a financially specific publication.  Two such great newspapers are the Wall Street Journal and theInvestors Business Daily.