How do I restore stock tickers in my Stock Dashboard widget?

Now I'm a bit confused. Are you talking about the *Apple Dashboard Widget* for tracking stock? If so, it's easy to re-add a stock ticker. For example, here's how I add the NYSE index...

First step is to get to Dashboard, which you can do by pressing f12 on most Macs or the little tiny dashboard icon on the MacBook Air. Now you'll see the stock widget along with whatever else you have configured: click on the little "i" on the lower right corner of the widget.

Now you'll be at the widget's stock ticker input area, where you should type in the name of the ticker. Here I'm using NYSE for the New York Stock Exchange Composite ticker:

I click "+":

Select it, and now notice the very bottom symbol, highlighted here:

That should solve the problem you face. Now, if we could just see the stock exchange itself moving upwards...