The company has had consistent insider buying of its shares including a sizable open market purchase by its chairman.

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For example, an open-market purchase means the Fed is buying but the public is selling.

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In the case of an open-market purchase of securities by the Fed, it is more realistic for the seller of the securities to receive a check drawn on the Fed itself.

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Local Motors produces bespoke cars for enthusiasts using a network of 4, 500 designers (who compete to produce designs) and dozens of microfactories (which purchase parts on the open market and then assemble them).

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Second, whereas buyer's brokers were permitted to purchase shares in the open market to cover the trade before, now they would be required to cover the sale and pass the costs to the seller's broker.

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He said the most vulnerable buyers will be individuals who didn't get IPO allocations and then decide to purchase the stock on the open market during the stock's initial run-up.

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Rolling Jubilee proposes to purchase consumer debt on the open market for pennies on the dollar just like hedge funds do every day and then find the debtors and forgive their debts.

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He says, however, to watch for such carriers as Ryanair to wait for a cyclical downturn in the airliner market to purchase wide bodies on the cheap and open up trans-Atlantic routes--something he says might happen in about five years.

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When the Fed pours money into the system with the purchase of mortgage-backed securities, combined with guidance from the Federal Open Market Committee that the federal funds rate will remain near zero at least through mid-2015, it depresses yields on debt instruments.

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