BUBBLE-BRAINED FEARS Alan Greenspan, his Federal Reserve colleagues and a number of financial pundits have frequently referred to current stock market evaluations as a "bubble" that can only come to grief.

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Each idea is referred to as a stock, and those mock securities are classified as "Savings Bonds, " which focus on cost-cutting, "Bow Jones, " which build on existing technologies, and "Spazdaq, " which describes ideas using entirely new technology.

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Recently a lot has been written about the emergence of new private company stock marketplaces (often referred to s secondary marketplaces) where buyers and sellers of private company securities can connect and transact.

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In a statement, the prosecutor general said Alaa, Gamal and seven others had been referred to the criminal court on charges of violating stock market and central bank rules.

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The 40-year-old became the youngest managing director of a plc when the club was floated on the stock market in 1997 and has been referred to as the first lady of football, as she is the highest placed woman in the game.

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The Singapore Exchange suspended trading in the stock for two years until August last year and referred the matter to government investigators for possible criminal offenses.

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One hears stories of cellars filled with unsold stock, while Sauternes producers lament that their creations are often referred to as "dessert" wines.

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Whatever those plans for the future that Zuckerberg referred to, they will need to overcome a lot of inertia to kick the stock price back into optimistic territory.

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