Whether you are a do-it-yourself investor with an online brokerage account, or you get investment recommendations from a broker at a full-service brokerage firm, you'll typically receive an account statement monthly, or at least quarterly, and a trade confirmation every time you buy or sell a security.

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Different free trade deals are due for confirmation in the European Parliament at Strasbourg next week, giving whisky exporters to tariff-free access to Colombia, Peru and central America.

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By 1887, the telegraph enabled an investor in most cities in the U.S. to send an order to New York and receive confirmation of the trade within 90 seconds.

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It also includes a trade bill with Vietnam (where the president is going later this week) and the confirmation of a new secretary of defense (in a time of war).

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Bishop did not receive confirmation from the client on January 4, 2011 and he did not cancel the trade at the end of the day.

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Mr Bayh is holding up the confirmation of Rob Portman, the Ohio congressman whom George Bush has nominated for US trade representative, until his bill is voted on.

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You want outside confirmation that your opinion is correct because there is always someone on the other side of the trade with a different opinion than yours.

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He repeated this point in his confirmation hearings and plans to work with Pascal Lamy, a long-time friend and Europe's trade commissioner, to build momentum for the new round of multilateral trade talks.

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