Why continue hustling for commissions selling penny stocks when for the price of having a lawyer draft a believable private placement memorandum, you can call yourself a hedge fund manager?

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The "inverse auction" meant that for every pre-order, one penny was slashed from the starting price.

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There is no doubt that British consumers have the impression they are regularly being ripped off by international cartels using cynical price-fixing measures to steal the last penny out of their wallets.

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Meeting or beating an earnings forecast by even a penny can cause a big swing in a stock's price.

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But Hall says that auditing a supply chain for conflict minerals would only increase the price of a cell phone, for example, by a penny.

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While the share price has risen, it's relative, coming off a penny stock level.

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But when that data ends up on the open market, you may be surprised at the price it fetches: in this case, less than half a thousandth of a penny.

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