Home >> Encyclopedia-britannica-volume-3-baltimore-braila >> Blarney to Boat >> Board Room

Board Room

Loading


BOARD ROOM, the room where directors or other officers of a corporation or company meet. Also, in the United States, the room in a broker's office equipped for the convenience of custom ers, and especially for the purpose of supplying them with current market quotations. Tickers bring in the quotations and often cus tomers read directly from the tapes of many machines. It is cus tomary to have a large board on a wall of the room so ruled as to provide a space for each security or commodity quoted, and upon this board are displayed the quotations, as fast as they arrive, in large figures that can be seen from various parts of the room. A similar board in the New York Stock Exchange is generally known as the "Big Board," and that in the Curb exchange as the "Little Board." The "Board Room" is often called the "Cus tomers' Room."

quotations