ticker tape

ticker tape definition - business

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 electronic tickers of brokerage firms. Also called tape. See also broad tape.

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