Nomura, a broker, made the splashiest acquisition of all with the purchase of the European and Asian arms of Lehman Brothers.

野村证券，一家股票经纪商，完成了所有当中最引人关注的收购。 它收购了雷曼兄弟在欧洲和亚洲的分支机构。

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At the stock market your broker will inquire of other broker if they know of anyone who would like to sell the stock that you want to purchase.

你的经纪人将在股票交易所向别的经纪人打听他们是否知道有人要抛出你想买进的股票。

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He asked his broker to keep a weather eye open for any significant change in the price of gold as he was considering another purchase.

他请他的经纪人严密注视黄金价格的重大变化，因为他正考虑再购进一批。

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When mutual funds first became popular in the 1980s, you had to go through a broker to purchase them.

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Using a stock exchange as a metaphor, the simplest way to explain this ecosystem is, websites have unsold inventory they pass to an ad exchange, similar to a stock exchange, and advertisers utilize demand side platforms, similar to a stock broker, to purchase the inventory.

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When the preliminaries were over, I asked the broker about Fannie Mae, namely about what he told my client, and I established that the broker had recommended the purchase.

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