#9057, aired 2024-03-12 | INVESTING & BUSINESS TERMS $1000: The VIX, short for this, is a predictor of how fast stock market prices change volatility index |
#8433, aired 2021-06-30 | MAGAZINES $800: Now owned by Bloomberg, this financial magazine debuted 7 weeks before the big stock market crash of 1929 Business Week |
#8012, aired 2019-06-11 | BUSINESS $2000: The Wallenberg family once controlled 40% of the value of this city's stock market Stockholm |
#6767, aired 2014-02-04 | BUSINESS & THE MARKET $200: In 2008 Toyota ended this company's 77-year reign as the world's top automaker General Motors |
#6767, aired 2014-02-04 | BUSINESS & THE MARKET $400: Since 1957 Standard & Poor's has had an index of this many stocks 500 |
#6767, aired 2014-02-04 | BUSINESS & THE MARKET $600: In 1967 this company's holdings included 2 peewee Nebraska insurance companies; now it owns GEICO Berkshire Hathaway |
#6767, aired 2014-02-04 | BUSINESS & THE MARKET $800: In 2013 Facebook dangled $3 billion in cash in front of this photo-messaging company, which said no Snapchat |
#6767, aired 2014-02-04 | BUSINESS & THE MARKET $1000: This giant Peoria-based company purchased ERA Mining Machinery in 2012 Caterpillar |
#6409, aired 2012-06-28 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $600: In September 1989 Toyota entered the luxury car market with this brand's ES250 & LS400 models Lexus |
#5806, aired 2009-12-07 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $200: In 1986 this company was forced out of the instant camera market, having violated 7 Polaroid patents Kodak |
#5330, aired 2007-11-09 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS $600: The Times said in 2007 that August's ugly job market turn could be signaling one of these, the first since 2001 a recession |
#4928, aired 2006-02-01 | "B" IN FASHION $200 (Daily Double): The USA's oldest clothing retailer, this upscale, once family-run business has collared the market on men's apparel since 1818 Brooks Brothers |
#4296, aired 2003-04-14 | BUSINESS ABBREV. $400: A first sale of stock on the open market:
IPO an initial public offering |
#3994, aired 2002-01-03 | "PRIVATE" PRACTICE $800: UNC has a Kenan Institute of this, defined as a market-based economic system or one business within the system private enterprise |
#3840, aired 2001-04-20 | SECTIONS $200: Section of the Los Angeles Times that covers money matters like the stock market & personal finance Business |
#3550, aired 2000-01-28 | MIND YOUR BUSINESS $100: The driving force in a free market is supply & this Demand |
#2760, aired 1996-09-06 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $500: This chain holds 29% of the seafood restaurant market Red Lobster |
#2690, aired 1996-04-19 | BUSINESS BIGGIES $100: Called Big Blue, it controlled nearly 80% of the computer market in the 1960s & 1970s IBM |
#2676, aired 1996-04-01 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $400: In 1914, 1-pound cartons of this product came on the market under the brand name Jolly Time popcorn |
#2290, aired 1994-07-15 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $1,000 (Daily Double): This company first entered the lipstick market with the slogan "Matching lips and fingertips" Revlon |
#2271, aired 1994-06-20 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $300: Conair has 52% of the market share of these hand-held appliances hair dryers |
#2246, aired 1994-05-16 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $800: The stock market symbol of this retailer founded by Leslie Wexner is LTD The Limited |
#2193, aired 1994-03-02 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $400: This New Jersey-based retail chain has about a quarter of the U.S. toy market Toys "R" Us |
#2118, aired 1993-11-17 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $400: This winery in Modesto, California is the world's largest, & accounts for more than 25% of the U.S. market Ernest & Julio Gallo |
#1986, aired 1993-04-05 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $2,400 (Daily Double): It's the world's largest commodity futures market the Chicago Board of Trade |
#1913, aired 1992-12-23 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $400: This Fremont, Michigan company has about 3/4 of the U.S. baby food market Gerber |
#1701, aired 1992-01-13 | BUSINESS TALK $200: An investor is said to be bullish if he believes the stock market will do this go up |
#1596, aired 1991-07-08 | BUSINESS & FINANCE $100: It's a market in which there is no competition as there is only one producer of the product monopoly |
#1519, aired 1991-03-21 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $300: Sony is the first company in the United States to mass market DAT recorders, DAT standing for this digital audio tape |
#1517, aired 1991-03-19 | SHOE BUSINESS $1000: The inflationary inflatable shoe that Reebok first put on the market for $170 the air Pump |
#1202, aired 1989-11-21 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $600: To get closer to the market, Bally will move its gaming equipment mfg. from Illinois to this state Nevada |
#1019, aired 1989-01-26 | BUSINESS BIGGIES $100: There's a glut of cola on the market, so this company's giving us more Kisses Hershey's |
#974, aired 1988-11-24 | BUSINESS BIGGIES $300: After Six, estab. in 1903, controls over half the market of this type of men's wear evening wear (formal wear, tuxedos) |
#599, aired 1987-03-26 | BUSINESS BIGGIES $1000: It's said this Swiss company held 80% of the tranquilizer market till their patent on Valium expired in 1985 (Hoffman)-La Roche |