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stock-ticker symbol en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of stock ticker symbol.
    • FUN stuff from Charles Stanley, which has been investigating the most amusing US stock-ticker symbols as a way of getting its name into newspapers. (Score!) 2017 January 30, “City Spy: Stanley has soft spot for a dodgy ticker”, in London Evening Standard, London, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 45, column 1:
    • Urban Outfitters would put its logo, URBN, which also is its stock-ticker symbol, at the top of the corners of its building. 2013 July 27, Dean Lee Evans, Tim Mekeel, “Second largest solar roof in nation?”, in Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era, 6th year, number 128, Lancaster, Pa.: Lancaster Newspapers, →OCLC, page A5, column 3:
    • BMO Capital Markets analyst Sohrab Movahedi wrote in a note on Friday that more recently, the Caribbean business “has been viewed as more of an investment as opposed to strategically important” for CIBC (or CM, according to its stock-ticker symbol). 2019 November 9, Geoff Zochodne, “CIBC latest Canadian bank to jump ship from Caribbean in pursuit of scale, focus”, in Edmonton Journal, Edmonton, Alta., →ISSN, →OCLC, page NP7, column 5:

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