Re: Stock Market Symbols

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Heather,

This is a somewhat belated response to your mail of September 8, 1994 (see
below). Is there a typo in your mail? Maybe "when-issued" is "w" over "i",
not "s" over "s".

I am (on behalf of Reuters) very interested in these and similar
combinations. We use the following:

   "p" over "r" (representing Preferred),

   "r" over "t" (representing Rights),

   "u" over "n" (representing Units),

   "w" over "i" (representing When Issued),

   "w" over "s" (representing Warrants).

I am trying to establish how widespread is the use of these symbols.

Regards,
misha.wolf@reuters.com

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Does anyone know of the proper names for the following 3 glyphs that appear 
on consolidated tape for stocks? I couldn't find them in the Unicode book 
(they all take up the space of a normal upper case letter).
The ones I've found in _Wall Street Words_ by David Scott (Houghton Mifflin,
1988) are:
  "r" directly over "t" (transaction of a right)
  "w" over "i"          (transaction of less than a round lot)
  "s" over "s"          (transaction of security on when-issued basis)
Thanks for any help!
Heather Davenport

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