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An example of a television news ticker, at the very bottom of the screen. News ticker on a building in Sydney, Australia. A news ticker (sometimes called a crawler, crawl, slide, zipper, ticker tape, or chyron) is a horizontal or vertical (depending on a language's writing system) text-based display either in the form of a graphic that typically resides in the lower third of the screen space ...
The machines printed a series of ticker symbols (usually shortened forms of a company's name), followed by brief information about the price of that company's stock; the thin strip of paper on which they were printed was called ticker tape. The word ticker comes from the distinct tapping (or ticking) noise the machines made while printing ...
The storage unit recorded the data from the ticker line. Brokers could enter the stock symbol on a desk unit. This triggered a backward search on the magnetic tape (which continued recording incoming ticker data). When a transaction was located, the price was sent to the desk unit, which printed it on a tape.
A ticker symbol or stock symbol is an abbreviation used to uniquely identify publicly traded shares of a particular stock or security on a particular stock exchange. Ticker symbols are arrangements of symbols or characters (generally Latin letters or digits) which provide a shorthand for investors to refer to, purchase, and research securities.
Ticker can mean: Ticker tape, the paper strip output by a stock ticker machine; Ticker symbol, codes used to uniquely identify publicly traded companies on a stock market; News ticker, a small screen space on television news dedicated to headlines or minor pieces of news; Ticker, an action film directed by Albert Pyun
Some companies remain independent today, but with new ticker symbols. Harley-Davidson ( HOG ), for example, once went by HDI, and then switched to reflect the nickname of its machines. Some clever ...
For a news site, and in particular a financial news site, it makes sense to include the ticker symbol along with the first mention of the company in an article. The Wall Street Journal and other publications do this. For an encyclopedia, the practice is uncommon and strange. It feels strange to include an external link in the article lead.
Ticker Symbol Reverts Back, Net Element International, Inc. NEW YORK, MOSCOW & MIAMI--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Net Element International (NASDAQ: NETE), a technology driven group in mobile commerce and ...