Some expected Apple's shares to sell off after the report as investors took profits following another solid report.

一部分预计苹果股票将在报告公布后遭抛售，这样投资者就可以从下一期较好报告中套利。

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GM's bankers stopped taking orders for the sale on Tuesday afternoon after essentially running out of shares to sell, the person said.

通用汽车公司的合作银行停止接受订单关于星期二下午，在本来出售的股票售罄之后。

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In fact there is. An institution with a block of shares to sell needs to find an equally large buyer without broadcasting its position.

确实有。一个有大宗股票出售的机构必须找到一个有同样大规模需求的买家，且不必宣扬自己的仓位。

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You can call your broker and say, I'd like to short stock number one and what the broker will do is borrow the shares on your behalf and sell them and then you own negative shares.

你可以打电话给你的经纪人说，我要做空一号股票,经纪人就会在你的名下赊入这些股票,然后卖掉,这样你就拥有数量为负的股票了。

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Then he comes back and says, I managed to get all but one hundred shares and there's this one guy-- this Yale student--who owns one hundred shares of Google stock and I'm having trouble getting him to sell.

然后他回来了,说,就差一手股票就齐了,有一个股东,耶鲁大学的学生,有一百股谷歌股票,他就是不卖

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Even if Wall Street never fully accounts for the costs and earnings dilution, Facebook employees will continue to have a boatload of shares to sell.

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Again, Mattera did not have the shares to sell.

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Calculating basis (and deciding which shares to sell) gets messier if you've held a stock for decades or have been reinvesting dividends, meaning you've bought small lots of shares at different prices.

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