The payments aim to defray losses taken by those firms, which facilitated Facebook stock orders that originated from retail brokerages.
It would appear the product is back in stock and orders are being taken.
Investors who had standing orders to sell a stock or exchange-traded fund if it fell below a certain price learned the risks of such orders on May 6, 2010.
Investors were not allowed to short stocks if the last three orders of a stock all led to lower prices.
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They could only short a stock when one of those orders sold for a higher price than the previous order.
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Officers say hundreds of items of stock, master discs and orders ready to be sent out to customers were also seized.
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In so doing, IP expects to improve procurement, replenishment orders, reduced stock keeping units (SKU), and the supply chain, including its warehouses, notes Zacks.
Charles Schwab presented the most thorough information, alerting clients that stock exchanges were canceling some orders and providing links to further details posted by the NYSE and NASDAQ public affairs divisions.
By 11 am, these Polly-Anna expectations had already been falsified, as a new Commerce Department report confirmed a sharp drop in June 2011 US factory orders, and stock market indices and bond yields plunged again.
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The footwear and sport apparel maker beat top-line estimates and revealed growth in its worldwide futures orders, helping the stock rally Thursday during the afterhours session.
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The best way to protect yourself is to use limit orders when placing an order to buy or sell a stock or an exchange-traded fund. (See How Your Buy and Sell Orders Get Filled for more.) Look at the bid-ask spread and set your price limit at the bid for selling a stock and at the ask for buying a stock.
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If the technology successfully drives costs lower, it could be a welcome boost for Hollywood, which, despite selling the world tales of futuristic sophistication, is as an industry often behind the curve in technology--images are stored on bulky, perishable film stock and large crews of technicians take orders from essentially paper-based offices.
Imagine, when there is an earnings miss, the program automatically triggers orders to sell short and the stock plunges.
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It turns out some investors sold stock at a gain because of stop-loss orders.
Brut, for example, borrowed a practice from the fixed-income side by paying traders to supply limit orders--a commitment to buy a stock at a specific price--to draw sellers to the exchange.
Then again, even with reams of data (manufacturing orders, consumer spending, unemployment rates, stock prices) and complex computer models at their disposal, richly paid soothsayers prove notoriously bad at predicting the future.
U.S. stock futures were modestly higher ahead of data including durable goods orders, consumer confidence and new home sales.
Now, partly thanks to flash orders, Direct Edge is the third-largest stock trading platform by matched volume in the country, according to Raymond James.
Orders for the IPO of Russia's primary stock exchange were more than two times oversubscribed, but the deal was expected to price at the lower end of its range.
The combination of tepid earnings reports received last week and once again mixed economic data in the form of the October Employment Report and weaker than expected factory orders for October resulted in mixed returns for the stock market last week.
If you are a stock investor, consider strategies such as placing stop-loss orders to reduce losses in a volatile market, subscribing to services that email you company specific news as it happens, and setting up loss review trigger points to review your investment.
When the stock did open, investors say they had trouble completing and canceling orders.
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But Arment has a "sell" rating on the stock, given his concerns that 2006 will prove a peak in orders for body armor.
Despite warning signs that the Internet boom had gone too far, Cotsakos remained focused on stock-trading, which peaked at an average 308, 000 orders a day in April 2000, and kept up the juvenile ads.
Orders to treat MS have soared in recent months and the stock has tripled over the last year.
Earlier this week the stock-data provider Nanex told my colleague that firms send in massive orders on purpose to manipulate the market.
Flash orders were pioneered by the Chicago Board Options Exchange's stock exchange earlier this decade as that exchange looked for a way to improve execution speeds.
Because of the whopping and sudden decline in stock prices the afternoon of May 6, 2010, many stop-loss orders were triggered.
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