"I'm voting 'No' because Egypt can't be ruled by one faction, " Karim Nahas, a 35-year-old stock market broker voting early on Saturday in Giza, told Reuters news agency.
However, if this case is going to send Mandell and Harrington to prison for many years then the government had better start talking about some laws that have been broken rather than a one-time stock broker (Grabowski) who had a change of heart because he no longer believed his own sales pitch.
My ex-husband, a stock broker, was a compulsive gambler who lost a fortune of my inheritance.
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The bulls clutch their certificates close to their chests, keeping the shares out of the broker's stock-lending department.
The creditor says McLaughlin tried to pay off a debt with common stock in his company, even recommending a Boca Raton, Fla. broker, since sanctioned for penny-stock scams, who could supposedly sell the shares on the open market.
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The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, which oversees broker-dealers along with the stock exchanges, sent a warning to member companies last week.
Charles Schwab ( SCHW - news - people ) broker when the stock market crashed in October 1987.
Emerging from the world of penny stock operators, the company survived a cast of dubious financiers during the late eighties and early nineties: a Genovese crime family-associated broker, a Ponzi schemer and a stock swindler, whose firm inspired the movie Boiler Room, none of whose wrongdoings was related to BioReference or Grodman.
When an individual investor successfully disputes a stock trade, his brokerage generally will seek compensation from these broker-dealers.
Singer served as a regulatory lawyer with both the American Stock Exchange and the NASD and also as an in-house lawyer for broker-dealers, mutual funds and investment advisers.
"Let's put some lipstick on this pig, " a slick-haired broker says as his salesmen prepare to foist a dud stock on unsuspecting investors.
Last month, on the Monday after Bear Stearns' collapse, the SEC proposed a new "naked short-selling anti-fraud rule" that is supposed to rein in manipulative trading by preventing short-sellers from misrepresenting to a broker that they have properly located stock to borrow to sell short.
Miller also defrauded another broker-dealer into taking on a significant short position in Apple stock to hedge against the large purchase of Apple stock he was executing at Rochdale, authorities said.
Or consider a broker who e-mails someone a question about the trading volume at which a certain stock would be likely to rise (or fall).
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If you agree, put 10% of your money in a hard-assets stock fund (see table below) or in some commodity positions you place yourself at a broker.
"Don't just buy a stock because a broker recommended it, " says Walter Carucci, chief executive of Port Washington, New York-based Carr Securities, an over-the-counter marketmaker.
Instead of finding a lender of shares, they have their broker just run up an electronic tab, so to speak, on the books of a stock-clearing corporation.
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