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Paperless Wall Street Gets Ticker Tape Bailout

New York (Nov. 5) -- Add this to the many problems confronting Wall Street: There's no ticker tape for a ticker tape parade -- and a shortage of open windows. When the New York Yankees locked down their 27th World Championship Wednesday night, plans were already under way for a victory parade through lower Manhattan's...

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02/07/12 Giants' Super Bowl parade: The history behind the... Source: NJ.com Before it became a New York tradition, it was an inventive way to dispose of the waste of the machine that pushed Wall Street into its modern era.
10/29/10 Daily TWiP - First New York City ticker-tape parade... Source: The Telegraph - Nashua NH Welcome to Daily TWiP, your daily dose of all the holidays and history we couldn't cram into The Week in Preview.

Background on TickerTape

Ticker tape was the earliest digital electronic communications medium, transmitting stock price information over telegraph lines, in use between around 1870 through 1970. It consisted of a paper strip which ran through a machine called a stock ticker, which printed abbreviated company names as alphabetic symbols followed by numeric stock transaction price and volume information.

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