[austex]

Reuters was floated as a public company in 1984 on the London Stock Exchange and on NASDAQ in the United States. In October 1851 Baron Paul Julius Reuter, a German-born immigrant, opened an office in the City of London which transmitted stock market quotations between London and Paris via the new Calais-Dover cable. Two years earlier he had used pigeons to fly stock prices between Aachen and Brussels

[Anomaly in Illinois]

lol, I thought you were pulling my leg, until I looked it up myself.