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The new CNBC ticker, unveiled in December 2005.
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The new CNBC ticker, unveiled in December 2005.

The CNBC Ticker is a computer simulation of ticker tapes shown on the lower part of the TV screen on the business television channel CNBC from Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, in the U.S. The CNBC Ticker shows security and index symbols just like old ticker tapes that received information by telegraph, but unlike those ticker tapes, it is digital. Image File history File links Nuvola_apps_important. ... Image File history File links CNBC-ticker-2006. ... Image File history File links CNBC-ticker-2006. ... A computer simulation or a computer model is a computer program that attempts to simulate an abstract model of a particular system. ... Ticker tape was used by ticker tape machines, stock ticker machines, or just stock tickers. ... The term screen has a number of meanings: A window screen is a wire mesh that covers a window opening to keep out insects even when the window is open. ... Wall Street, Manhattan is the location of the New York Stock Exchange and is often used as a symbol for the world of business. ... The term television channel generally refers to either a television station or its cable/satellite counterpart (both outlined below). ... CNBC (until 1991 the Consumer News and Business Channel) is a group of cable and satellite television Business news channels from the U.S., owned and operated by NBC Universal, a joint venture of General Electric and Vivendi Universal. ... Map highlighting Englewood Cliffs location within Bergen County. ... Telegraphy (from the Greek words tele = far away and grapho = write) is the long distance transmission of written messages without physical transport of letters, originally over wire. ...


The Ticker is sponsored by companies like United Technologies or Charles Schwab, and shows commercial ads from those companies every now and then. United Technologies Corporation (UTC) (NYSE: UTX) is a major multinational corporation based in Hartford, Connecticut. ... Charles Schwab can refer to: Charles M. Schwab, 19th century industrialist and financier. ...


The security identifiers used on the CNBC Ticker are taken from nomenclatures used by third-party companies like Reuters, the New York Stock Exchange, the NASDAQ or the American Stock Exchange (AMEX). Reuters Group plc (LSE: RTR and NASDAQ: RTRSY) is best known as a news service that provides reports from around the world to newspapers and broadcasters. ... New York Stock Exchange (June 2003) The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) , also nicknamed the Big Board, is the largest stock exchange in the world in dollar volume and second largest by number of companies listed. ... NASDAQ (originally an acronym for National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations ) is a U.S. electronic stock exchange. ... The American Stock Exchange (AMEX) is an American stock exchange situated in New York. ...


The ticker is composed of a white-background upper band and a dark-blue-background lower band.

Contents


Upper band

On this picture the upper band shows "BMY 17.1K@25.88▲.41", which means BMY's (Bristol-Myers) last transaction was of 17.1K (17,100) shares @ (at) a bid price of 25.88 USD with a ▲ positive difference of .41 USD. The positive difference is shown by the green color. Red means the difference is negative, i.d., the bid price went down, and dark blue or black means UNCH (unchanged bid price). This particular ticker display was used until December 2005, but was brought back in July 2006, this time without the color.
On this picture the upper band shows "BMY 17.1K@25.88▲.41", which means BMY's (Bristol-Myers) last transaction was of 17.1K (17,100) shares @ (at) a bid price of 25.88 USD with a positive difference of .41 USD. The positive difference is shown by the green color. Red means the difference is negative, i.d., the bid price went down, and dark blue or black means UNCH (unchanged bid price). This particular ticker display was used until December 2005, but was brought back in July 2006, this time without the color.

This work is copyrighted. ... This work is copyrighted. ... Bristol-Myers Squibb (NYSE: BMY), colloquially referred to as BMS, is a pharmaceutical corporation, formed by a 1989 merger between pharmaceutical companies Bristol-Myers Company and Squibb Corporation. ...

CNBC Market Summary

The upper band shows a CNBC Market Summary one minute after every third of an hour (:01, :21, :41), with the symbols of the main indices, e.g.:

Valueline is an American stock tracking service, which ranks stocks based on company specific safety/risk, and in terms of timeliness relative to other stocks covered within the survey. ... A Dot-com company, or simply a dot-com, was any company that promoted itself as an Internet business during the Dot-com boom. ... The PHLX Semiconductor Sector (SOX) is a price-weighted stock market index composed of 19 companies primarily involved in the design, distribution, manufacture, and sale of semiconductors. ... R-phrases R42 R43 R49 S-phrases S22 S36 S37 S45 S53 Flash point non-flammable Supplementary data page Structure and properties n, εr, etc. ... A chemical compound is a chemical substance formed from two or more elements, with a fixed ratio determining the composition. ... General Name, Symbol, Number silicon, Si, 14 Chemical series metalloids Group, Period, Block 14, 3, p Appearance dark gray, bluish tinge Atomic mass 28. ... General Name, Symbol, Number oxygen, O, 8 Chemical series Nonmetals, chalcogens Group, Period, Block 16, 2, p Appearance colorless Atomic mass 15. ... A semiconductor is a material with an electrical conductivity that is intermediate between that of an insulator and a conductor. ... The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) is the worlds largest options exchange with an annual trade of over 15 billion shares of stock options in some 1200 companies. ... The S&P 100, or S&P 100 Index, is a stock index of US stocks made by Standard and Poors. ...

Commodity Summary

It also shows a Commodity Summary one minute after every sixth of an hour (:01, :11, :21, :31, :41, :51) with the Reuters Instrument Code symbols of commodity futures contracts and their delivery months, e.g.: A Reuters Instrument Code, or RIC, is a ticker-like code used by Reuters to identify financial instruments and indices. ... The word commodity is a term with distinct meanings in business and in Marxian political economy. ... In finance, a futures contract is a standardized contract, traded on a futures exchange, to buy or sell a certain underlying instrument at a certain date in the future, at a pre-set price. ...

Incomplete list of commodity futures shown in the CNBC Ticker's Commodity Summary: The New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) is the worlds largest physical commodity futures exchange located in New York City. ... Dow Jones & Company (NYSE: DJ), based in the United States is a publishing and financial information firm. ... American International Group, Inc. ... The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) NYSE: BOT, established in 1848, is the worlds oldest futures and options exchange. ...

List of delivery month codes: Light crude oil as opposed to heavy crude oil contains a low content of wax. ... General Name, Symbol, Number lead, Pb, 82 Chemical series poor metals Group, Period, Block 14, 6, p Appearance bluish white Atomic mass 207. ... petrol) or Gasoline is a petroleum-derived liquid mixture consisting primarily of hydrocarbons, used as fuel in internal combustion engines. ... Heating oil, or burning oil, also known in the United States as No. ... Eurodollars are deposits denominated in United States dollar at banks outside the United States, and thus are not under the jurisdiction of the Federal Reserve. ... The euro (currency sign: €; banking code: EUR) is official currency in the following twelve European Union member states: Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain; collectively also known as the Eurozone. ... Foreign exchange has several meanings: In telecommunications, Foreign exchange service is a type of network service. ... Treasury Securities are bonds issued by the U.S. Treasury, and sold by the Federal Open Market Committee, or FOMC. They are the debt finance instruments of the Federal government, and are often referred to as treasuries. ... Treasury Securities are bonds issued by the U.S. Treasury, and sold by the Federal Open Market Committee, or FOMC. They are the debt finance instruments of the Federal government, and are often referred to as treasuries. ... LIBOR stands for the London Interbank Offered Rate and is a daily reference rate based on the interest rates at which banks offer to lend unsecured funds to other banks in the London wholesale (or interbank) money market. ... ISO 4217 Code CAD User(s) Canada Inflation rate 2. ... ISO 4217 Code JPY User(s) Japan Inflation rate -0. ... The factual accuracy of this article is disputed. ... General Name, Symbol, Number copper, Cu, 29 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 11, 4, d Appearance metallic brown Atomic mass 63. ... General Name, Symbol, Number palladium, Pd, 46 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 10, 5, d Appearance silvery white metallic Atomic mass 106. ... General Name, Symbol, Number platinum, Pt, 78 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 10, 6, d Appearance grayish white Atomic mass 195. ... General Name, Symbol, Number gold, Au, 79 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 11, 6, d Appearance metallic yellow Atomic mass 196. ... Aluminum is a soft and lightweight metal with a dull silvery appearance, due to a thin layer of oxidation that forms quickly when it is exposed to air. ... Pork bellies are the underside of the hog, from which bacon is made. ... Species Saccharum arundinaceum Saccharum bengalense Saccharum edule Saccharum officinarum Saccharum procerum Saccharum ravennae Saccharum robustum Saccharum sinense Saccharum spontaneum Sugarcane or Sugar cane (Saccharum) is a genus of 6 to 37 species (depending on taxonomic interpretation) of tall grasses (family Poaceae, tribe Andropogoneae), native to warm temperate to tropical regions... Magnified crystals of refined sugar Magnification of typical sugar In general use, non-scientists take sugar to mean sucrose, also called table sugar or saccharose, a white crystalline solid disaccharide. ... The New York Board of Trade (NYBOT) is a physical commodity futures exchange located in New York, New York. ... Coffee Coffee is a beverage, served hot or with ice, prepared from the roasted seeds of the coffee plant. ... Cocoa beans in a cacao pod Cocoa is the dried and partially fermented fatty seed of the cacao tree from which chocolate is made. ... Orange Juice was a Scottish post punk band founded in the middle class Glasgow suburb of Bearsden as the Nu-Sonics in 1976, becoming Orange Juice in 1979. ... American International Group, Inc. ...

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
January F April J July N October V
February G May K August Q November X
March H June M September U December Z


Since 19 December 2005, the full commodity names are displayed alongside the ticker symbols. December 19 is the 353rd day of the year (354th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...


Stocks

During market hours it shows stock symbols of stocks with high trading volumes of the New York Stock Exchange. After market hours it shows an alphabetic list of those symbols. Those symbols have usually three letters, e.g.: A stock symbol or ticker symbol is a shorthand code used to uniquely identify shares of a publicly-traded corporation on a particular stock market. ... New York Stock Exchange (June 2003) The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) , also nicknamed the Big Board, is the largest stock exchange in the world in dollar volume and second largest by number of companies listed. ...

Since 19 December 2005, the full company names are displayed alongside the ticker symbols. PepsiCo, Inc. ... Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. ... Viacom is a media conglomerate with various worldwide interests in cable and satellite television networks (MTV Networks and BET), video gaming (part of Sega of America), and movie production and distribution (the Paramount Pictures movie studio and DreamWorks). ... In finance the term A share has two distinct meanings, both relating to securities. ... December 19 is the 353rd day of the year (354th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...


Lower band

Stocks

The lower band shows the stock symbols of the NASDAQ Stock Market and of the American Stock Exchange, e.g.: NASDAQ (originally an acronym for National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations ) is a U.S. electronic stock exchange. ... The American Stock Exchange (AMEX) is an American stock exchange situated in New York. ...

Google Inc. ... The S&P 500 is a list of 500 US corporations, ordered by market capitalization. ...

AccuWeather forecast

During the CNBC programs Worldwide Exchange and Squawk Box and Mad Money early-morning reruns, the lower band shows weather forecasts of U.S. and European cities made by Pennsylvanian company AccuWeather, with three-letter or two-letter abbreviations somewhat different from the IATA location identifiers for cities, e.g. Worldwide Exchange is a television business news program on CNBC channels around the world. ... Squawk Box can refer to a number of television programmes broadcast by the CNBC group of television channels, at breakfast time on the stations they are aired. ... Mad Money is an American business television program hosted by James Cramer that began airing on the CNBC cable/satellite TV channel on Monday, March 14, 2005. ... AccuWeather is a large American company that provides weather forecasting services. ... An IATA airport code, also known an IATA location identifier or simply a location identifier [1], is a three-letter alphabetic code designating many airports around the world. ...

Chicago (officially named the City of Chicago) is the third largest city in the United States (after New York City and Los Angeles), with an official population of 2,896,016, as of the 2000 census. ... Map Location in Pennsylvania Political Statistics Founded c. ... Flag Seal Nickname: City of Angels Location Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates , Government State County California Los Angeles County Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D) Geographical characteristics Area     City 1,290. ... This article is about the city in Florida. ... Flag Seal Nickname: Big Apple Location Location in the state of New York Government Counties (Boroughs) Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Geographical characteristics Area     City 1,214. ... City nickname Emerald City City bird Great Blue Heron City flower Dahlia City mottos The City of Flowers The City of Goodwill City song Seattle, the Peerless City Mayor Greg Nickels County King County Area   - Total   - Land   - Water   - % water 369. ... London is the capital city of England and of the United Kingdom, and is the most populous city in the European Union. ... City flag City coat of arms Motto: Fluctuat nec mergitur Tossed by the waves, she does not founder Coordinates : , Time Zone : CET (GMT +1) Administration Subdivisions 20 arrondissements Département Paris (75) Région ÃŽle-de-France Mayor Bertrand Delanoë (PS) City (commune) Characteristics Land Area 86. ...

CNBC Europe Ticker

CNBC Europe also broadcasts a similar ticker to the ticker broadcast on CNBC US. It contains information from the major stock exchanges in Western Europe and Scandinavia, including prominently, the London Stock Exchange, the Euronext Paris Exchange, and the Deutsche Börse. Unlike the US ticker prior to December 2005, the full stock names have always been displayed for European shares, not symbols. US companies do however use the same symbols as CNBC US (the full names are now displayed also). The information for the European ticker is provided by Reuters (formerly by Moneyline Telerate), and this is regularly promoted on the ticker. The Source by Greyworld, in the new LSE building Paternoster Square. ... Euronext N.V. is a pan-European stock exchange with subsidiaries in Belgium, France, Netherlands, Portugal and the United Kingdom. ... City flag City coat of arms Motto: Fluctuat nec mergitur Tossed by the waves, she does not founder Coordinates : , Time Zone : CET (GMT +1) Administration Subdivisions 20 arrondissements Département Paris (75) Région ÃŽle-de-France Mayor Bertrand Delanoë (PS) City (commune) Characteristics Land Area 86. ... The Frankfurt Stock Exchange (outside) The DAX chart (inside) The Frankfurt Stock Exchange (German: FWB® Frankfurter Wertpapierbörse) is a stock exchange located in Frankfurt, Germany. ... Reuters Group plc (LSE: RTR and NASDAQ: RTRSY) is best known as a news service that provides reports from around the world to newspapers and broadcasters. ...


The CNBC Europe Ticker contains information as follows (the times shown are GMT/BST): For alternate meanings of GMT, see GMT (disambiguation). ... Time zones of Europe: Dark colours indicate countries observing daylight saving British Summer Time (BST), known in Ireland as Irish Summer Time (IST), is the changing of the clocks in effect in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland between the last Sunday in March and the last Sunday in...

  • Pre-Market (05:00-08:00) : Upper Band: US recaps, Asian Most Actives. Lower Band: Europe Recaps:
  • Market Open (08:00-14:30, 16:00-16:30) Upper Band: Live Trades. Lower Band: Most Actives.
  • US Market Open (14:30-16:00). Upper Band: Europe Live Trades. Lower Band: NYSE / NASDAQ Stock Market / American Stock Exchange Live Trades, CNBC Europe US Market Summary (see CNBC Market Summary above).
  • Post Market (16:30-18:00) : Upper Band: Winners and Losers. Lower Band: Most Actives.
  • US Market Afternoon: (18:00-21:00): This is a simulation by CNBC Europe of the ticker on CNBC US, and contains similar data and a similar format to the "real" CNBC Ticker. The format is slightly different, in terms of fonts used, and the CNBC Europe DOG is displayed, in full colour. No sponsorship is displayed on the ticker.
  • Post US Market (21:00-22:00): Upper Band: US Extended Hours Trades / CNBC Europe US Market Summary. Lower Band: Europe Most Actives.

During CNBC Asia programming, the CNBC Asia ticker is displayed (see below). New York Stock Exchange (June 2003) The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is one of the largest stock exchanges in the world. ... NASDAQ (originally an acronym for National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations ) is a U.S. electronic stock exchange. ... The American Stock Exchange (AMEX) is an American stock exchange situated in New York. ... CNBC Asia is a business news channel in Asia. ...


CNBC Asia Ticker

CNBC Asia also uses a two-line ticker of similar design to the Europe ticker. This displays Most Actives for major Asian stock exchanges, as well as US and Europe recaps. The information for this ticker is also provided by Reuters.


See also

Ticker tape was used by ticker tape machines, stock ticker machines, or just stock tickers. ... What follows is a list of over 250 Wikipedia articles on finance topics. ... This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it. ... A Reuters Instrument Code, or RIC, is a ticker-like code used by Reuters to identify financial instruments and indices. ... A News Ticker is a small screen space on News television networks dedicated to headlines or minor pieces of news. ...

External link

Internet Explorer, abbreviated IE or MSIE, is a proprietary graphical web browser made by Microsoft and included as part of the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems. ... Windows 98 (codename Memphis) is a graphical operating system released on June 25, 1998 by Microsoft. ...

References

  • Google Groups : misc.invest.stocks complete January 17, 1996, CNBC Ticker Guide
  • NBC Cable Networks - NBCCableinfo.com - CNBC incomplete newer CNBC Ticker Guide


 

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