Earnings news matters immediately, the reaction time for a given stock can be measured in fractions of a second.
They should be able to carry out simple equations and algebra, calculate in fractions and percentages, calculate angles and understand probability.
Decisions have to be made and changed again in fractions of seconds.
In response, he now asks some customers to pay upon delivery, using PayPal Here on his smartphone, which gives him an inflow of cash "in fractions of a second, " he says.
The sources of this problem stem from banks or lenders disappearing, in which large fractions of the stock of money vanish.
Ventilation can involve either 100 percent fresh air in which outside air enters and leaves the cabin in a single pass or a system in which various fractions of air are recirculated from the aircraft cabin and mixed with fresh air.
Leveraging technology developed by Merrill Lynch in the 1970s, ShareBuilder gives investors the ability to buy fractions of shares in a stock on an on-going basis.
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That has left U.K. banks among the most lowly valued in Europe, trading at fractions of book value.
In 1985, Casio introduced the world's first graphing calculator, the fx-7000G, and in 2004 the company released the fx-82ES scientific calculator with textbook display that shows fractions and root functions as they appear in textbooks.
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While the storm was dumping plenty of snow in other places, Washington was getting just fractions of an inch, said CNN meteorologist Sean Morris.
As an SEC commissioner, Wallman was able to save investors money by championing decimalization, the listing of stock prices in dollars and cents instead of dollars and fractions.
This is why stocks cost, except for fractions of a moment, the same in London and New York, bonds in Tokyo and London, tin in Jakarta and Munich (allowing for taxes and transport costs).
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Exposures to other mycotoxins were at tiny fractions of the levels known to cause effects in humans and animals.
Laser interferometers are looking for disturbances in their experimental set-ups that are equivalent to mere fractions of the diameter of a proton, one of the particles that make up the nucleus of an atom.
Last summer, Direct Edge was at the center of a controversy over so-called flash trading, in which users of its ECN are flashed unfilled orders for fractions of a second before those orders are routed out to rival exchanges.
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