Practical Law Dictionary. Glossary of UK, US and international legal terms. www.practicallaw.com. 2010.
Ticker symbol — Stock telegraph ticker machine by Thomas Edison A stock symbol or ticker symbol is a short abbreviation used to uniquely identify publicly traded shares of a particular stock on a particular stock market. A stock symbol may consist of letters,… … Wikipedia
Ticker Symbol — An arrangement of characters (usually letters) representing a particular security listed on an exchange or otherwise traded publicly. When a company issues securities to the public marketplace, it selects an available ticker symbol for its… … Investment dictionary
ticker symbol — An abbreviation assigned to a security for trading purposes. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary Characters that identify a financial instrument on an exchange ticker. Exchange Handbook Glossary * * * Letters that identify a stock traded on a stock … Financial and business terms
ticker symbol — / tɪkə ˌsɪmb(ə)l/ noun US a letter used to identify a stock on the ticker tape system COMMENT: All securities listed on the US stock exchanges are identified by letter symbols on ticker tape. So shares in Hilton are referred to as HLT, Texaco as… … Dictionary of banking and finance
HUI (ticker symbol) — The AMEX Gold BUGS (Basket of Unhedged Gold Stocks) Index (ticker symbol HUI) is an index fund of 14 major gold mining companies. The index is represented by the symbol HUI. The Index is designed to give investors significant exposure to near… … Wikipedia
FXP (ticker symbol) — FXP is the ticker symbol for the ULTRASHORT FTSE/XINHUA CHINA 25 Exchange traded fund from ProShares. It was introduced on November 8, 2007.FXP, and its counterpart EWV for the Japan stock exchange, are double leveraged, meaning that they are… … Wikipedia
Ticker tape — was used by ticker tape machines , the Ticker tape timer, stock ticker machines , or just stock tickers . History The term ticker tape came from the sound made by the machine as it printed, and tape simply refers to the machines using a paper… … Wikipedia
Ticker — can mean:* A stock ticker machine and the ticker tape (paper strips) it prints on * Ticker symbol, codes used to uniquely identify publicly traded companies on a stock market * News ticker, a small screen space on news television networks… … Wikipedia
stock ticker symbol — noun A unique series of letters assigned to a company or other security for trading purposes Syn: stock symbol … Wiktionary
symbol — Letters used to identify companies on the consolidated tape and other locations. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary * * * symbol sym‧bol [ˈsɪmbl] noun [countable] 1. a picture, shape, or set of letters that represents a particular meaning: • We need … Financial and business terms
