ledger

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Tokenization refers to converting company shares or other equities into digital stock that can be traded on a decentralized blockchain ledger rather than through traditional exchanges.

From Barron's • Mar. 9, 2026

Turning to the arcane economic terminology of international accounting, the balance of payments is a complete ledger of all economic transactions between the U.S. and the rest of the world.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 24, 2026

Like Aleys, Alouette forms alliances with other women, Sylvine and Marguerite, the latter of whom carefully documents the guards’ abuses in a ledger.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 4, 2026

On the other side of the ledger is the opportunity cost of spending cash rather than investing it — often cited as roughly 7% based on long-term stock market averages.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 1, 2026

Lorren brought out a pen and drew a series of hashes through my single line of writing in the ledger book.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss