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From 1901 to 1911, the USCGS established several triangulation networks across the country which had different origins. In 1911, these different networks on different datums and with different origins were consolidated into one nationwide network and the Luzon Datum was established with triangulation station Balanacan as its datum origin.
In 1884 the Dow Jones company published the first stock market averages, and in 1889 the first issue of the Wall Street Journal appeared. As time passed, other newspapers added market pages. [5] The New York Times was first published in 1851, and added stock market tables at a later date.
This is a list of active stock exchanges in the Americas. Stock exchanges in Latin America (where Spanish and Portuguese prevail) use the term Bolsa de Valores , meaning "bag" or "purse" of "values".
OpenLR is a royalty-free open standard for "procedures and formats for the encoding, transmission, and decoding of local data irrespective of the map" developed by TomTom. ...
The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR) [1] was a holding company of manufacturers of record-keeping and measuring systems; it was subsequently known as IBM.. In 1911, the financier and noted trust organizer Charles R. Flint, called the "Father of Trusts", amalgamated (via stock acquisition) four companies: Bundy Manufacturing Company, International Time Recording Company, the ...
The short-term panic lasted approximately 1 year and led to a drop of the major U.S. stock market index by ~26%. It mostly affected the stock market and business traders who were smarting from the activities of trust busters, especially with the breakup of the Standard Oil Company and the American Tobacco company. [2]
A scene from a bucket shop in 1892. A bucket shop is a business that allows gambling based on the prices of stocks or commodities.A 1906 U.S. Supreme Court ruling defined a bucket shop as "an establishment, nominally for the transaction of a stock exchange business, or business of similar character, but really for the registration of bets, or wagers, usually for small amounts, on the rise or ...
Watered stock is an asset with an artificially-inflated value. [1] The term most commonly refers to a form of securities fraud in which a company issues stock to someone before receiving at least the par value in payment. [2] Historically, stock watering was prevalent in the 19th century rail industry in the United States. [3] [4] [5]