Word: ticker
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...overweight jogger clutches his chest and sinks painfully to the sand, his ticker in mortal distress. He will lie there-at first in pain, later in death-for most of S. O. B. That is because it is his misfortune to have been taking his exercise in the world capital of self-absorption, the beach at Malibu, where movie people tend their tans, mend their deals and bend their minds with all sorts of curious additives. Dying is something that happens to your friend's act in Vegas or your rival's picture in Gotham. It is acceptable...
When the New York Stock Exchange closed January 7, the Dow Jones ticker stood at 1004 and some change, a high-water mark for recent months. The bull market that began with the election of Ronald Reagan showed every sign of plowing ahead. And the edition of Joseph Granville's Market Letter, a leading private forecast service, that reached investors that morning stated that "the market is signaling a sharp upswing ahead...Buy aggressively," it advised...
Several thousand subscribers warned by Granville were selling--as the news spread, individual investors and even some institutions began to follow the trends. By day's end, the ticker tape was trailing badly in its race to stay apace of the action, and no wonder. January 8 saw a new trading record--93.7 million shares--10 per cent higher than the ebullient buying spree triggered by Reagan's November triumph. And there was no doubt about the direction of the sudden spurt. Prices on the Big Board fell 23.8 points...
...history of television weathercasting does not exactly en courage reverence. In the beginning, stations just had a staff announcer rip the forecast off the A. P. ticker. Stations with commercial foresight, however, brought in scientists or pseudo scientists to discourse on occluded fronts and thermal inversions. The weather package was born: a short noncontroversial segment of the local news, with almost universal audience interest. In the mid-and late '50s came the era of the weather girl-sex to relieve the tedium of the millibars. The acts ranged from chirpy to sultry. The women, often blond, busty and breathy...
...shares that changed hands soared past 50 million. By month's end the total stood at a staggering 1.2 billion shares, far surpassing the August 1978 record of 865 million. The American Stock Exchange also set a trading record, with 206 million shares moving across its own ticker during the month...