But the one that upset the financially wise was the professional dancer who related in a book how he parlayed his earnings into a $2,000,000 profit on the stock market.

After she had served the detectives coffee and toast ( they politely declined eggs, uncomfortable about their tenancy ), she settled down with a morning newspaper and began reading the stock market quotations.

Section 7 is designed to arrest in its incipiency not only the substantial lessening of competition from the acquisition by one corporation of the whole or any part of the stock of a competing corporation, but also to arrest in their incipiency restraints or monopolies in a relevant market which, as a reasonable probability, appear at the time of suit likely to result from the acquisition by one corporation of all or any part of the stock of any other corporation.

It argued, inter alia, that a divestiture order would severely depress the market value of the stock of both General Motors and Du Pont, with consequent serious loss and hardship to hundreds of thousands of innocent investors, among them thousands of small trusts and charitable institutions ; ;

that the tremendous volume of General Motors stock hanging over the market for ten years would hamper the efforts of General Motors and other automobile manufacturers to raise equity capital ; ;

and that all this would have a serious adverse effect on the entire stock market and on general business activity.

On that date the Musicians Emergency Fund, organized to furnish employment for musicians unable to obtain engagements during the depression and to provide relief for older musicians who lost their fortunes in the stock market crash, observed its 30th anniversary.

As the number of reported freight car loadings increased, this was taken to indicate increased industrial activity, and consequently increased stock earnings, implying fatter dividends, and implying therefore increased stock market prices.

Giffen advised acceptance of this plan, citing the depressed market for land then prevailing and the large stock of provisions at the plantation.

In the middle of the stock market crash, he heard a slight noise in the outer office.

A measure of how hot the stock was, can be found in what happened to it on the market as soon as trading began.

`` I feel confident the stock will qualify for the ' national list ' '', he said, meaning its market price would be quoted regularly in newspapers all over the country.

First, the general stock market has been boiling upward for the last few months, driving stocks of all kinds up.

Both of those have had dynamic run-ups in price on the market in recent months, both were selling at higher price-earnings and yield bases than Morton was coming to market at, and everyone who knew anything about it expected the Morton stock to have a fast run-up.

* 1989 – A solar flare from the Sun creates a geomagnetic storm that affects micro chips, leading to a halt of all trading on Toronto's stock market.

Within no time, the Curb Exchange became the leading international stock market, listing more foreign issues than all other U. S. securities markets combined.

However, the stock market was used as a " third shareholder " in previous versions of the game.

The number on the tile indicates how many shares the stock market owns in the company that is being acquired.

When the price of a stock on the NYSE and its corresponding futures contract on OCX are out of sync, one can buy the less expensive one and sell it to the more expensive market.

The standard example is the stock of a company, undervalued in the stock market, which is about to be the object of a takeover bid ; the price of the takeover will more truly reflect the value of the company, giving a large profit to those who bought at the current price — if the merger goes through as predicted.

Generally, however, the vast majority of stock used today is " normal " ( visible spectrum ) color, although " normal " black and white also commands a significant minority percentage.

This means that unfiltered tungsten stock will look normal shot under tungsten lights, but blue if shot during daylight.

Conversely, daylight stock shot in daylight will look normal, but orange if shot under tungsten lights.

A common opinion of the car is that in stock form it is somewhat underpowered, and a variety of solutions have been implemented, from complete engine swaps ( either to a larger PRV engine, or to completely different engines such as the Cadillac Northstar engine ), turbocharger kits ( single or twin-turbo ), down to simpler solutions such as improved exhausts and other normal engine tuning work.

Also known as distressed or expired stock, distressed inventory is inventory whose potential to be sold at a normal cost has passed or will soon pass.

The normal brass for cymbals is about 38 % zinc in copper, which is very easily worked, readily available as sheet metal, and is easily the cheapest metal stock normally used for cymbals.

Consequently, unlike other products, it is not possible, under normal operating conditions, to keep it in stock, ration it or have customers queue for it.

One of the key technical achievements that makes the DI possible is the look-up table ( aka " LUT "), which can be made to mimic how the digital image will look, once it's printed onto normal release print stock.

Few businesses stock their change drawers with half-dollars, and many banks do not stock these coins or hand them out as normal business practice, so the coins do not see much circulation.

*" Any rifle, shotgun or carbine stock of the type known as the “ bull-pup ” design, being a stock that, when combined with a firearm, reduces the overall length of the firearm such that a substantial part of the reloading action or the magazine-well is located behind the trigger of the firearm when it is held in the normal firing position.

A stock scene in the submarine genre film is the depiction of a grim-faced submarine crew waiting in silence as depth charges explode overhead and bolts fly out of bulkheads in the submarine ( they are dead silent because sound carries extremely well underwater, and so even the sound of men talking on a submarine would be picked up by normal sonar on other ships ).

Although the proposal was announced after the close of trading on June 4, the volume of trading in Mandalay Resort Group stock on that day was quadruple the normal, with the stock closing at $ 60. 27 per share.

This diagram ran to cover for the unavailability of the normal DMU stock.

Once the stock goes back to its normal level, the criminal sells the stock or option at a profit.

In addition, the stock of EDS became a special ' Class E ' GM stock, which was separate from normal GM stock, an arrangement which almost got GM kicked off the NYSE.

The parts were made available to comply with the regulations of sanctioning bodies for racing events in which Valiants had been entered by factory-backed teams: All parts used had to be " stock " parts, the definition of which meant that they were available through normal factory parts channels.

In modern times, this is largely because of the commercial value of the blesbok to private land owners, and also because it is one of the few medium-sized antelope that can be contained by normal stock fencing.

And from that the stock moved right on up until it was trading Thursday morning at around $22 a share.

The stock price of Compaq, which was around $ 25 when Capellas became CEO, was trading at half that by 2002.

The dot-com bubble ( also referred to as the Internet bubble and the Information Technology Bubble ) was a historic speculative bubble covering roughly 1995 – 2000 ( with a climax on March 10, 2000, with the NASDAQ peaking at 5132. 52 in intraday trading before closing at 5048. 62 ) during which stock markets in industrialized nations saw their equity value rise rapidly from growth in the Internet sector and related fields.

A Honduran stock exchange was established in August 1990 with transactions confined to trading debt.

Many funds ceased trading during the Recession of 1969 – 70 and the 1973 – 1974 stock market crash due to heavy losses.

Insider trading is the trading of a corporation's stock or other securities ( e. g. bonds or stock options ) by individuals with potential access to non-public information about the company.

For example, if an insider expects to retire after a specific period of time and, as part of his or her retirement planning, the insider has adopted a written binding plan to sell a specific amount of the company's stock every month for two years and later comes into possession of material nonpublic information about the company, trades based on the original plan might not constitute prohibited insider trading.

It states that anyone who misappropriates ( steals ) information from their employer and trades on that information in any stock ( either the employer's stock or the company's competitor stocks ) is guilty of insider trading.

For example, if a journalist who worked for Company B learned about the takeover of Company A while performing his work duties, and bought stock in Company A, illegal insider trading might still have occurred.

The SEC and several stock exchanges actively monitor trading, looking for suspicious activity.

For example: if, while dining at a restaurant, you hear the CEO of Company A at the next table telling the CFO that the company's profits will be higher than expected, and then you buy the stock, you are not guilty of insider trading unless there was some closer connection between you, the company, or the company officers.

Legalization advocates also question why " trading " where one party has more information than the other is legal in other markets, such as real estate, but not in the stock market.

* ImClone stock trading case

* 2012 – Facebook, Inc. began selling stock to the public and trading on the NASDAQ.

As part of his plea, Boesky purported to implicate Milken in several illegal transactions, including insider trading, stock manipulation, fraud and stock parking ( buying stocks for the benefit of another ).

The indictment accused Milken of a litany of misconduct, including insider trading, stock parking ( concealing the real owner of a stock ), tax evasion and numerous instances of repayment of illicit profits.