The experiment with e-commerce thus far has shown that online shoppers tend to favor the bricks-and-clicks models so they don't sacrifice having a physical location where they can get advice, view products or make an exchange -- a finding that bricks-and-clicks universities are likely to recognize and copy, Levine said.
When an investor buys or sells a stock, that order may never make it to an exchange.
Like the rest of Groupon, Getaways will promote limited-time deals requiring customers to make an upfront payment in exchange for a voucher that can then be redeemed within a certain period of time.
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The question lingering beneath such reforms is the same: Can an exchange square the need to make a profit with a mandate to run "free and fair" markets?
The appointment of Mary Jo White to head up the Securities and Exchange Commission is an attempt to make a clear and definitive statement.
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They will make perfect presents for her daughter's four teachers or an office gift exchange, she says.
Vanguard this year followed up on several investors' requests that it allow them to make telephone and online exchange orders for its 34 index funds--an industry first.
To Mundell, constantly changing exchange rates are just an opportunity for banks and hedge funds to make money at the expense of people doing business internationally.
Suddenly, mamas were ditching their Latina sitters left and right in exchange for grimy after-school programs and college students trying to make an extra buck toward tuition.
If a couple of mutual funds suddenly decided to make a serious investment, the country's exchange rate could rocket, starting an unsustainable boom in the property and banking sector, and causing havoc for exporters.
But though he is tainted with the Grasso scandal and is the subject of litigation himself, Langone is getting at least an ear the firms that make up much of the daily order flow at the exchange.
Indeed, one of Asia's biggest questions is how sick Japan's economy is going to become, and such an exchange-rate policy would, other things equal, be likely to make it sicker.
The San Francisco firm said it has dozens of clients experimenting with new ways to make money from Chinese users, including offering free digital content in exchange for engaging with an ad or downloading an app.
Bill Porter who took options onto an electronic exchange, the ISE, and the law firms which protect the intellectual property that make innovative financial firms profitable.
Indeed, in its application to the Securities and Exchange Commission--which, guess what, will come through just in time to make an IPO possible before the November elections!
At the event, Iwata showed off how 3DS consoles can passively exchange data between each other in an automatic Tag Mode and how Mii customizable avatars will make their way onto the system.
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The deal would make the NYSE a publicly traded company--an idea that has been bandied about since Thain arrived at the exchange in late 2003 following the ouster of CEO Richard Grasso .
Trading exchanges make sense for vanilla products, but when it comes to highly unique, illiquid deals of the Abacus variety, an exchange would serve no purpose.
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