According to the FIX Protocol Website, 75 percent of buy-side and 80 percent of sell-side financial services firms use FIX for electronic trading, with both types of organizations planning to expand FIX, according to a survey taken by TowerGroup.

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Some may find it advantageous to buy new data-processing systems rather than to fix their existing ones.

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So the ECB can buy time, important time, but bond-buying alone will not fix the crisis.

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After five years working for Great Experiment, he and his wife, Stephanie, had saved just enough money to buy a big fixer-upper in Oak Park, without being able to fix it up.

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McCullough says the housing market became a place where homeowners could buy a house, fix it up, and sell it to another buyer in a two-year span.

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