“Stub quotes”, placeholder prices provided by marketmakers, caused some shares in household names to be sold for as little as a cent.

“意向报价”，一种由作市商提供的用于占位的报价，可使得一些为人熟知的股票以低至1美分的价格售出。

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Eliminating stub quotes is easy enough, however, and it actually gives the SEC something they can do.

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Stub quotes are likely to be eliminated.

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The agency has been in talks with NYSE Euronext, Nasdaq and other exchanges about such a proposal, along with a plan to eliminate the so-called stub quotes, or place markers, that featured so prominently in the May 6 crash.

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