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Ticker Symbol
A stock symbol or ticker symbol is a mnemonic used to uniquely identify publicly-traded shares of a corporation on a particular stock market. A stock symbol may consist of letters, numbers or a combination of both. The word "ticker" used to mean "ticker symbol" is specific to U.S. stock symbols.
Commerce Department Unveils "Colombia Tariff Ticker"
As part of the Bush Administration's efforts to convince Congress to pass the U.S.-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement, the Commerce Department today released the ?Colombia Tariff Ticker? which tracks the dollar value of tariffs since the signing of the U...
a symbol for sharing
Legal writing professors are among the most generous of educators, freely sharing their ideas, opinions, and teaching materials via their organizations' listservs and the Legal Writing Institute's IdeaBank...
Guantanamo as a Symbol
by Frank Kendall, a consultant for Human Rights First who is blogging from Guantanamo BayThe flag of the great State of Mississippi is missing...
"Cause Is Lost, But Symbol Lives"
"Cause Is Lost, But Symbol Lives": Today's issue of The Day of New London, Connecticut contains an article that begins, "Avner Gregory's new home on Franklin Street sticks out from the houses around it...
The Peace Symbol Turns Fifty
Thanks to Dominique Foucart at Réseau Médiation for directing us to the web site of the 50th Anniversary of the Peace Symbol here -- which we picked up in Dominique's weekly column -- this week in the anglophone blogosphère...
Microsoft, the Olympics and the Symbol of Peace
And in other noteworthy anniversary news this weekend: Microsoft marked its 23rd anniversary, the peace symbol marked its 50th anniversary, and the first modern Olympics in Athens, Greece marked its 112th anniversary...















