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Shinola clocks are not just for your wrist, six of these designer tickers have been placed at various locations in the city. — Aleanna Siacon, Detroit Free Press, "Just in time: Detroit's Penobscot Building clock is fixed," 12 Feb. 2018 The company will trade on the Nasdaq exchange under the ticker SONO. — Maureen Farrell, WSJ, "Sonos Files to Go Public, Headed for Trading This Month," 6 July 2018 And all the buyers are watching it rather than the ticker. — Adam Shell, USA TODAY, "World Cup is great for soccer fans but history shows your 401(k) may suffer during games," 15 June 2018 Likewise, a 2006 analysis by Adam Alter and Daniel Oppenheimer — professors of marketing and psychology, respectively — found that stocks with names and tickers that are easy to pronounce outperform counterparts with more complicated names. — Janine Wolf, latimes.com, "Oscar, Marcus, Casper, Cora: Companies are using human names to seem more friendly," 11 June 2018 At the time, the largest retail fund -- the SPDR S&P Retail ETF, ticker XRT -- was down more than 8.5 percent for the year compared with a 17 percent gain in the S&P 500 Index. — Carolina Wilson, Bloomberg.com, "This ETF Has Lost 13% Waiting for the ‘Retailpocalypse’," 4 June 2018 Nine crazy years at the ticker and three long years in the breadlines! — Kevin Baker, The New Republic, "Why America needs truth and reconciliation after Trump," 17 May 2018 The company has applied to be listed on the Nasdaq exchange under the ticker symbol TLRY. — Derek Hall, The Seattle Times, "Marijuana company Tilray plans to sell 9 million shares in IPO," 9 July 2018 Chaos ensues -- but one ticker gets crowned the winner. — Bloomberg.com, "Ticker Madness," 21 Mar. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'ticker.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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ticker
noun
English Language Learners Definition of ticker
: a machine that receives and prints out stock prices and other news on long, thin pieces of paper
: a narrow area that shows information across the top or bottom of a television or computer screen
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