Examples
Stock end dates range from a few months to several decades.
Example of a short-term stock:
- Will Transformers have the highest total box office in North America to date of all films that premiered in 2007 through Labor Day September 3, 2007?
Example of a long-term stock:
- Will a team of androids beat the human World Cup champions at a game of soccer by December 31, 2050?
Most stocks dealt with subjects featured in the Popular Science Magazine, such as SPOREQ2, a stock on whether the upcoming video game Spore would be released by the 2nd quarter of 2008. Others dealt with current events, such as DIETDRUG, a stock on the whether the new FDA approved Alli, a diet supplement, would be recalled in 2007.
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Famous quotes containing the word examples:
“Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)
“There are many examples of women that have excelled in learning, and even in war, but this is no reason we should bring ‘em all up to Latin and Greek or else military discipline, instead of needle-work and housewifry.”
—Bernard Mandeville (1670–1733)
“In the examples that I here bring in of what I have [read], heard, done or said, I have refrained from daring to alter even the smallest and most indifferent circumstances. My conscience falsifies not an iota; for my knowledge I cannot answer.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)