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Trivia about ticker

  • Term for the scroll of prices on the electronic board; it comes from the time when it was printed on paper
  • In 1866 Western Union had the "heart" to introduce the first of these stock-price reporting devices
  • This piece of trading floor technology arrived in 1867 but is now a bit out of date
  • (Jimmy on the NY Stock Exchange floor.) The floor is tidier since the price reporting system went electronic, however the readout is still known by this old name

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