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Word: ticker (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since anyone who engages in the business of trading securities outside of an exchange is an over-the-counter dealer, o-t-c firms range in size from one man behind a dirty glass partition to frenzied establishments with 175 telephones. Because there can be no o-t-c ticker and hardly any published quotations, the market prices are established largely through dealer-to-dealer telephone inquiries. Dealers act either as brokers (buying securities on commission for customers) or traders (selling securities they own to customers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: SEC to O-T-C | 1/31/1938 | See Source »

...cost of over $1,000,000 the New York Stock Exchange installed a high-speed ticker service of N. Y. Quotation Co. The new tickers printed 500 characters a minute instead of the 300 characters of earlier machines. To the despair and confusion of brokers and speculators, however, tickers still run far behind the market whenever trading waxes fast & furious. Last week, for example, the ticker was several minutes late on four days. One mad day fortnight ago it fell 22 minutes behind, leaving traders groping in a mist of uncertainty. Last week the Stock Exchange fathered a new scheme...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: FLASH | 11/8/1937 | See Source »

Beginning November 1, whenever the ticker gets five minutes behind, latest floor prices of 16 major stocks will be given precedence on the ticker, one at a time, every 30 seconds, each preceded by the word FLASH. These up-to-date figures sprinkled through the bulk of late statistics are supposed to give traders an inkling of the market's trend. The 16 FLASH issues: Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe; American Telephone & Telegraph; Anaconda Copper; Chrysler; Sears, Roebuck; Great Northern (preferred); Consolidated Edison; Republic Steel; General Motors; Standard Oil of N. J.; General Electric; N. Y. Central; Electric Power & Light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: FLASH | 11/8/1937 | See Source »

...Ticker Tape...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Track Coach Employs "Electric Eye" to Translate Sprinters Onto Paper; Able to Check on Runner's Speed Acceleration | 11/2/1937 | See Source »

...runner intersects each light the time is recorded on the moving "ticker tape" evolving from the central controlling machine located on a nearby table...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Track Coach Employs "Electric Eye" to Translate Sprinters Onto Paper; Able to Check on Runner's Speed Acceleration | 11/2/1937 | See Source »

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