bell

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—European blue-chip indexes were largely higher in early trade after falling at the opening bell.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

Here are the top and bottom stocks in the large-cap index as of Tuesday’s opening bell.

From Barron's • Mar. 31, 2026

Robinhood External link, a digital asset brokerage, was up 2.1% ahead of the bell, while Strategy External link —the largest corporate holder of Bitcoin—rose 1.7%.

From Barron's • Mar. 30, 2026

The six-storey mill building, which has a bell tower, dates back to 1860 according to its Historic England listing, and is one of the earliest mill buildings of its scale in the town.

From BBC • Mar. 28, 2026

At nine o’clock sharp, Tansy sent Flopears Lumley out to ring the tower bell to begin school, though we were all there.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck