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ticker spam




The practice of sticking the stock symbol of a blue-chip firm, such as "MSFT" for Microsoft, at the end of a press release so it gets picked up under Microsoft's stock news page on AOL or Yahoo Usually posted by publicity-hungry companies, ticker spam is fortunately dwindling now that PR newswires and others check for it.

See also : spam  spim  fram  ticker shock  

NetLingo Classification: Online Business

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