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ticker tape

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Ticker Tape
A computerized device that relays financial information to investors around the world, including the stock symbol, the latest price, and volume on securities as they are traded.

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Before computers, the quotations on a ticker tape were stamped on a thin piece of paper.


Ticker tape
Computerized device that relays to investors around the world the stock symbol and the latest price and volume on securities as they are traded.

ticker tape
The narrow continuous rolls of paper on which stock transactions were printed before the electronic age made the old system obsolete. The term now refers to the flow of prices appearing on the tickers of brokerage firms. Also called tape.

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