stock ticker

noun

Origin of stock ticker

An Americanism dating back to 1885–90

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Ethan Allen Interiors, the American furniture retailer, is changing its stock ticker to avoid confusion with ether, the crypto asset used to pay transactions fees on the ethereum computing platform.
Ethan Allen is changing its ETH stock ticker to avoid confusion with Ethereum | John Detrixhe | August 5, 2021 | Quartz
Back at the station, a machine would spit out a strip of paper that resembled a stock ticker tape.
Call box of duty: Cops remember the call boxes that kept them connected | John Kelly | January 30, 2021 | Washington Post
Note has been made above of his invention of a stock ticker in Boston, and of his establishing a stock-quotation circuit.
Edison, His Life and Inventions | Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin
It is not to be inferred, however, that the modern stock ticker has anything to do with the making or losing of fortunes.
Edison, His Life and Inventions | Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin
His interest in the subject went back to his connection with General Lefferts in the days of the evolution of the stock ticker.
Edison, His Life and Inventions | Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin

As the latter entered, Ames was absorbed in the legend of the stock ticker.
Carmen Ariza | Charles Francis Stocking
This stock ticker that stood by the desk in the adjoining room, did you keep run of it yourself?
The Art of Cross-Examination | Francis L. Wellman

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