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PageNet. PageNet, also known as Paging Network, Inc., was founded in 1981 by entrepreneur George Perrin and ceased in 1999. The company grew to become the largest wireless messaging company in the world, with more than 10 million pagers in service, and $1 billion in revenues, before the paging industry's rapid decline in the late 1990s.
The Texas Stock Exchange (TXSE) is a planned stock exchange that will be headquartered in Downtown Dallas, Texas. The group behind the exchange, led by TXSE CEO James Lee, is financed primarily by BlackRock and Citadel Securities, with investments totalling approximately $120 million as of June 2024. The exchange is planned to facilitate trades ...
Working Group on Financial Markets. The President's Working Group on Financial Markets, known colloquially as the Plunge Protection Team, or " (PPT)" was created by Executive Order 12631, [1] signed on March 18, 1988, by United States President Ronald Reagan. As established by the executive order, the Working Group has three purposes and functions:
List of major stock exchanges. This is a list of major stock exchanges. Those futures exchanges that also offer trading in securities besides trading in futures contracts may be listed both here and in the list of futures exchanges. There are twenty one stock exchanges in the world that have a market capitalization of over US$1 trillion each.
Stock telegraph ticker machine invented by Thomas Edison. A ticker symbol or stock symbol is an abbreviation used to uniquely identify publicly traded shares of a particular stock or security on a particular stock exchange. Ticker symbols are arrangements of symbols or characters (generally Latin letters or digits) which provide a shorthand for ...
The Nasdaq Composite (ticker symbol ^IXIC) [2] is a stock market index that includes almost all stocks listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange. Along with the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500, it is one of the three most-followed stock market indices in the United States. The composition of the NASDAQ Composite is heavily weighted towards ...
Automatic quotation boards. A quotation board is a large vertical electronic display located in a brokerage office, which automatically gives current data on stocks chosen by the local broker. In 1929 the Teleregister Corporation installed the first such display, and by 1964 over 650 brokerage offices had them.
Investors Exchange (IEX) is a stock exchange in the United States. It was founded in 2012 in order to mitigate the effects of high-frequency trading. [1] IEX was launched as a national securities exchange in September 2016. On October 24, 2017, it received regulatory approval from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to list companies.