Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Did you know...

Did you know about the stock market...


· The first stock ticker was invented in 1867.
· The first stock exchange in the U.S. was in Philadelphia in 1970
· The New York stock exchange has less listings then the Bombay stock exchange
· Google has the highest price per stock on the Nasdaq
· In 1979 on the pacific stock exchange a seat was bought for 25 cents
· From 1910 to 1976 there was a stock exchange in Hawaii
· Lion Country Safari has the ticker symbol GRRR
· “$42,110,000 for the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad (Rail Road) Co. Bond, 100-yr, 4.5%, registered gold, dated 1913, due 2013, 'Series A,' , refunding & improvement issue.” Is the most a railroad stock bond has paid
· The original name for the American stock exchange is ‘The Curb’
· The day when the least amount of stocks was traded was March 16, 1830 with only 16 shares were traded
· The day when the most amount of stocks were traded was January 4, 2001, when 2,129,445,637 shares were traded.

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