Market makers earn their livings from the spread between buying and selling prices.

炒股者赚取股票买卖的价格差。

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Instead, its market makers are located all over the country and make trades by telephone and via the Internet.

它的市场期票出票人遍及全美各地，通过电话和国际互联网进行交易。

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People tend to buy and hold here, so there isn't as much secondary market trading as perhaps the market makers would like.

人们倾向于增购和增持，所以二级市场的交易量并没有做市商所预计的那么多。

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The makers of sugary breakfast cereals changed how they market to children, and the fast-food chicken dinner chain KFC stopped frying its food in artery-clogging,(high-trans-fat oils) after the group threatened to sue.

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Leading ETF market makers include Bank of America, UBS, Goldman Sachs and Knight Capital.

FORBES: The Lawless Society of ETFs

Convince people to trade at the prices that the market makers want them to trade at.

FORBES: Barnett Alexander's Market Abuse: Wait, What Market Abuse?

Why should important financial market makers and retail investors pay for excessive spending programs?

FORBES: European Union To Talk Bank Levy, Financial Transaction Tax