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unusual facts about ticker-tape parade



Amelia Gade Corson

Corson sailed to New York City aboard the RMS Aquitania, where she was reunited with her family and given an official welcome by the city's official greeter, who escorted her by car for a ticker-tape parade up Broadway to New York City Hall where she was welcomed by Mayor Jimmy Walker.

BBY

Best Buy, where BBY is the ticker symbol of Best Buy Co., Inc. on the New York Stock Exchange

Blogosphere

Political blogs are often tied to a large media or news corporation, such as "The Caucus" (affiliated with The New York Times), "CNN Political Ticker", and the National Reviews "The Corner."

Comtex

Its processing includes adding stock ticker symbols, indexing by keyword and category and converting diverse publisher materials and formats into the industry standard delivery format NewsML, an XML derivative.

Department 56

After failing to meet the exchange's requirements, trading was moved to the OTC Bulletin Board under the ticker "LENX".

Donna Henes

In 1984, she received a Mayoral Citation from New York City Mayor Ed Koch for designing the New York City Olympic Ticker Tape Parade and a Mayoral Citation from New York City Mayor David Dinkins in the early 1990s for her work as Shaman in the Streets.

Economics of coffee

Coffee futures contracts are traded on the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) under ticker symbol KC with contract deliveries occurring every year in March, May, July, September, and December.

FCX

Freeport-McMoRan, a mining company whose NYSE ticker symbol is FCX

Fear index

Fear Index - common name for the Chicago Board Options Exchange Market Volatility Index, ticker symbol VIX, measuring the implied volatility of S&P 500 index options

Financial data vendor

In addition to market price data there are data known as market reference data, such as a ticker name, which describe securities, commodities and transactions.

Franklin Templeton Investments

It is listed on the NYSE under the ticker BEN, in honor of Benjamin Franklin, who was admired by founder Rupert Johnson, Sr.

James Altucher

Altucher is a frequent guest contributor to The Daily Ticker feature on Yahoo! Finance & TechCrunch.

JLL

Jones Lang LaSalle, financial and professional services firm speciaizing in real estate listed on the New York Stock Exchange with the ticker "JLL"

Jud Hurd

His work has included Health Capsules, Ticker Toons, and the National Cartoonist Society magazine Cartoonist Profiles. He was awarded the National Cartoonist Society Special Features Award for 1978.

Lindsay, Nebraska

The company has retained a manufacturing facility in Lindsay, but is now headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska and its stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange with a ticker symbol of LNN.

Monsieur Alfonse

In addition, he also has a "dicky ticker", which comes on every time something stressful (or arousing) happens, and also suffers from the less publicised "tricky truss".

PBT

Permian Basin Royalty Trust; "PBT" is the New York Stock Exchange ticker symbol

PlayStation Home

In addition to the standard features of personal spaces, Loot's Space Apartment also allows users to view Twitter feeds from a ticker, and to search for photos from their Flickr account and display them on photo screens.

Richard John Brandes

He was the founder and CEO of Belgravia Capital, a middle market commercial finance and real estate mortgage bank which was acquired by the Finova Group (ticker symbol: FNV) in 1997.

Smith's Food and Drug

In 1989 the company completed its initial public offering and shares of the company started trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol SFD.

Sports Plus Network

According to the ticker that scrolled at the bottom of the screen, the service was a joint venture by SportsChannel, Tribune Media Services, and the Associated Press.

Sportschau

Since January 2011 the free Sportschau-App is obtainable for iOS and Android whereby sport news and live ticker are available for mobile devices.

Swn

Southwestern Energy, based on its ticker symbol on the New York Stock Exchange

Television news screen layout

The CCTV international (CCTV-4) and finance (CCTV-2) channels adapted relatively different news screen interfaces, with CCTV-2 having a much more complex layout containing a double news ticker similar to that of CNBC for news and stock market information.

The Singing Machine Company

The Singing Machine Company is a public company listed on the OTC Bulletin Board under the ticker symbol SMDM.

VWO

Vanguard Emerging Markets Stock ETF, an exchange-traded fund with ticker symbol VWO

WHI

W Holding Company, a failed bank holding company in Puerto Rico whose former NYSE ticker symbol was WHI


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