stock ticker

noun

1. ticker.

Word History and Origins

Origin of stock ticker¹

An Americanism dating back to 1885–90

Example Sentences

Formal dinners are constantly dying off and roaring back into fashion, and predicting their rise and fall is as simple as watching Wall Street’s stock tickers.

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Most investors spend their days glued to stock tickers like teenagers monitoring their Instagram likes.

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While the telegraph and railroad were innovations meant for general use, the stock ticker was the first advancement designed specifically for trading.

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Viewers flagged Fox News’s termination of a live stock ticker altogether midday on Thursday, shortly before Trump said his tariff plan was “going very well.”

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Apparently he was on his phone or looking at fish or looking at a stock ticker.

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