He floated his firm on the stock market.

他让自己的公司上市了。

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In this maneuver, a firm with a thinly traded stock, and often without viable operations, absorbs a more-marketable business whose shares mightn't have traded at all.

在这种操作方式中，一家股票很少进行交易且通常没有可行业务的公司吞并了一家更具市场规模但股票可能从未上市交易的公司。

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Morgan Stanley Smith Barney (MSSB) not only provides a huge distribution platform-for instance, the firm recently led a stock offering for General motors-but is also a useful source of deposits.

摩根·斯坦利美邦不仅提供了一个庞大的销售平台——例如，公司最近为通用汽车率领发行证券——而且也是一个有用的存款来源。

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Selling low and buying high seems to indicate either extraordinarily bad judgment--or an effort to firm the stock price.

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Such as accusing Star Gas of misleading investors about the success of its customer-service operations and a restructuring program in 2002 and 2003, when the firm sold stock in two offerings.

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The reason to keep the position small is because in my analysis Nokia is a speculative stock and we have firm guidelines for speculative stock that limit the position size.

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