Big Board

“We’ll have that game on the big board.”

“Business finally awoke to the potential of such devices,” writes historian Robert Sobel in “The Big Board: A History of the New York Stock Market.”

While banking and insurance issues had dominated early Wall Street, by 1856, the value of railroad stocks and bonds was greater than everything else combined, according to Sobel in “The Big Board.”

Most countries had faced higher tariffs - as illustrated on Donald Trump's big board - such as on electronics manufacturers in East Asia and they want to keep the levy at the 10% rate.

And this week's manifestation of that was the imaginative equation created by the US Trade Representative to generate the numbers on Trump's big board.