While juicy exchanges will no doubt end up in the collection, lots will likely be similar to this sample message.
While most exchanges simply match buyers and sellers, New York maintains a physical trading floor where specialists theoretically stand ready to buy or sell listed stocks even in times of crisis when trading dries up.
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Lululemon is now offering affected customers full refunds or exchanges while also warning of an impending shortage of black yoga pants, which comprise 17% of the pants in its stores.
Some states will run their own exchanges, while others will be run in part or entirely by the federal government.
In 1975, Congress passed laws that were intended to integrate prices on all of America's stock exchanges, while also encouraging them to compete.
Only 16 states have agreed to set up Exchanges, while nearly an equal number have refused to do so and many others sit on the fence.
This essentially means that the federal government will take on almost all responsibility for the partnership exchanges, while granting states many of the perks they would receive if they had created a state-based exchange.
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This twenty third trading week of 2012 comes to a close with investors monitoring events in Greece and Spain while investment banks and exchanges continue to point fingers and answer tough questiosn about the Facebook (FB) IPO.
Further, there is concern that premiums could skyrocket in 2014 if the unhealthy disproportionately move to exchanges for coverage while younger, healthier individuals slowly and cautiously join.
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But while it is the larger exchanges that grab global headlines, Asian Pacific exchanges are not far behind in the consolidation theatre and seem to have grasped the benefits of uniting.
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While originally designed to protect regional exchanges from the NYSE, in practice it has protected the NYSE, with its floor-based open-outcry trading system, from new electronic exchanges.
For those who do trade, and even the longest-term investor must trade once in a while, the merger of the exchanges may well bring costs down a bit lower.
When requests like this were made in the past, I would typically refer them to my LinkedIn profile and inform the person that I keep my Facebook circle very personal while all of my social media exchanges for business take place on LinkedIn and Twitter.
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The Paris and Frankfurt exchanges closed down 2%, while London's FTSE 100 ended the day 1.6% lower.
While a handful of smaller U.S. exchanges exist today, they tend to specialize in options, and, notably in the case of the American Stock Exchange, exchange-traded funds. (See story, p. 47.) A quirk in a 1975 U.S. securities law has allowed the regional markets to trade shares listed on the New York and American exchanges in a way that is attractive to big brokerage houses, keeping the smaller bourses alive on life support.
Capital market exchanges are expanding beyond traditional country borders, while industry service and technology providers are aligning in new ways.
In the past nine years the number of ADRs listed on exchanges has fallen from 413 to 337, while the number of unlisted ADRs has doubled to 2, 233.
Some employers can use new insurance exchanges created by the law to shop for coverage, while the smallest businesses will receive tax credits to offset the cost of covering lower-wage workers.
Facebook, while having only recently gone public, was a test case for those exchanges, like SecondMarket, where pre-public companies can be traded.
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So while I think Gabe is right that some sort of grand bargain in which Russia exchanges support for Syria for guarantees about American behavior in the post-Soviet space would be win-win, it will simply never happen unless the domestic political situation in the US changes beyond all recognition.
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They watched with growing frustration as the shares of recently-demutualised exchanges, such as the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, soared (see chart), while the value of their own seats dwindled.
While Duffy and Carey were friends from the hog pits, the clearing deal was hardly a lovefest among the two exchanges' members.
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