For instance, the bank 80% owned by taxpayers, Royal Bank of Scotland, has announced it is floating some of its US business, Citizens, on the stock market and selling a further stake in the insurer Direct Line.
As the volume of properties new to the market and selling are slow due to the time of year and the economic climate, it is hard to judge the impact of the home report introduction and it will probably take a longer period of time to conclude any trends from its effects.
Corporate insiders, blessed with more information about the prospects for their companies and those of competitors than any outsider could possibly obtain, have a history of successfully buying near market lows and selling near market tops.
He suggests an equity collar--buying a put below the market price and selling a call above it to defray the cost.
It is supplying a cabin run by Bournemouth's Churches Together at the town's German Christmas market and increasingly selling direct at church meetings.
For more than 10 years, he says he has bought and sold apartments where a tenant died an unnatural death, paying a third less than the market price and later selling at a healthy profit.
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The strict meaning is buying something in one market at one price and selling it again in another market at a different price at the same time.
There are longs that are trapped higher in this market and they will be selling into rallies, and of course, there will also be buyers coming in on the dips, creating the expected trading range.
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The reason: Most individual investors are overly sensitive to market swings and end up buying high (feeling they need to get in the game after seeing the market rise significantly) and selling low (out of fear that the market is going to plummet further).
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He spent a few years renovating the rundown 28-room, 10, 000-square-foot castle before putting it back on the market in 2009 and selling it.
The company got an enormous boost 30 years ago when it spotted a gap in the food market, and started selling fancy convenience foods.
Rather than attracting bargain-hunting buyers, the repeated asset write-downs chased buyers out of the market and encouraged more selling, creating a black hole of liquidity.
People want to get money back, fine go after the truly deep-pockets who caused this mess: Ackman, Soros, Einhorn, Paulson, Chanos, and the other shorts who abused mark-to-market and naked short selling.
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In times of less turmoil, the central bank generally only deals with primary dealers, a group of 20 big banks and brokerage houses with which the New York Federal Reserve conducts its open-market operations, buying and selling government securities to guide the federal funds rate.
Eventually, as more and more domestic bonds back the currency, the board can engage in open-market operations, buying and selling the bonds to nudge interest rates, just as central banks do.
The gold market sustained heavy selling pressure and losses on Feb. 15 and for now the market is overextended and the bears are tired and in need of some rest.
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Nobody knew what impact they would have on the market with their buying and selling on a large scale.
Construction on single-family homes continues to remain at a stand-still, as inventories overflow the selling market and unemployment remains over 9%.
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Investors have been buying emerging market bonds all year and selling equities.
There will also be displays of master craftsman-made lanterns in several locations, including Victoria Park's Lantern Wonderland, where there will also be a market selling handicrafts and festive foods.
But the vanguard of China's pioneers has been an army of small merchants fanning out throughout Africa, setting up "mom and pop" shops and market stores, selling cheap imports.
U.S. durable goods orders rose a strong 4.6% in December, which boosted the U.S. stock market and in turn added some more selling pressure to the gold and silver markets.
Still, Panasonic is hopeful of its smartphones making a dent in the Indian market, and is confident of gaining at least an 8% market share by selling about 2 million phones between now and March 2014, Mr. Sharma said.
Of course, if insider trading were legal then it would become much more prevalent and its cost to society would become enormous as individual investors would withdraw from the market and companies would have a much harder time selling shares and using the proceeds to hire people and build plants.
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The U.S. stock market saw solid selling pressure and most raw commodity markets were also pushed lower.
You would reverse the process when the market loved leverage and stocks were selling at a discount to book.
Anyone whose job or business will be impacted can't take stock-market risks, and should be selling despite low prices.
McKechnie believes Samsung gained market share and boosted the average selling price of its phones in the first quarter of 2010.
That shored up the market and wiped out short-selling profits.
Prices did hit a fresh two-week high in the early going, but then backed off the daily high when the raw commodity sector and stock market came under selling pressure just after the U.S. markets opened.
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