The first thing you have to realize is that buyers and sellers make the market.
The real issue is that buyers and sellers have asymmetrical information.
Either way, the undervaluation of an asset that let one person make a great return may disappear now that buyers and sellers know more information about the market.
Jordan is also turning to mobile payments and other technology that joins buyers and sellers.
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Now he's taking the data he's culled and turning it into an index that online buyers and sellers can use to compare selling prices of cars, homes and apartment rentals.
They are basically electronic limit order books that match buyers and sellers without any middleman.
They are basically electronic limit order books that match buyers and sellers without a middleman.
We found that both buyers and sellers were eager to make the deal and have it close by year-end.
Others also spy the opportunities, not only of international expansion, but also in providing new services that bring buyers and sellers together.
For instance, auction sites have ushered in a new breed of financial service companies that allows buyers and sellers to exchange payments electronically, person-to-person.
Meanwhile, in a sign of regulators' growing concern about evolving electronic trading, the SEC staff is also studying rules for so-called dark pools, private electronic-trading networks that match buyers and sellers anonymously.
While the new euro-market will, initially, allow trading only during specific hours, there is no reason, in principle, why the networked computers that match buyers and sellers cannot book orders around the clock.
Liquidnet, a fast-growing firm that anonymously joins buyers and sellers to negotiate trades without intermediaries, says that its average order size for large-cap stocks in the third quarter was 62, 000 shares.
One readily available piece of information that put buyers and short sellers often ignore is the short interest data, which is published on a regular schedule and provided for free by Nasdaq.
Marketplaces, be they Ebay (nasdaq: EBAY - news - people ), the New York Stock Exchange, a Middle Eastern souk or an ancient agora, share a common characteristic: They are forums that bring together buyers and sellers.
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And that is about as good as buyers and sellers and real estate people can expect it will ever be.
Intellectual Ventures is building an active market for invention that allows buyers, sellers and inventors to realize value for their ideas.
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We believe that in the Age of Context there will be a great many more products and services that allow sellers to understand what buyers want and to be able to give it to them.
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Regulation covers a broad range of government interventions (prohibition, antitrust, product specifications, transparency, use of particular institutional markets, and on and on), but in each case, it affects commerce that arises from willing and able buyers and sellers.
Lee targeted deals of under a million HKD and figured out that not only could he put sellers and buyers together, but he could build the acquired companies after he had invested.
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With that in mind, KBW put together a lengthy list of banks that could be buyers, sellers and in between.
The most profitable transactions usually come when a bank spots an opportunity to match buyers and sellers that nobody else has seen.
This latest research shows the danger of this judicial abdication: a proliferation of mandated disclaimers that harm both sellers and buyers.
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Also not available: Olympics tickets, which can only be resold at face value via a service operated by Ticketmaster that matches sellers and buyers.
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Burgess says his company can get a 12 percent to 20 percent return on its investment and that outside investment money benefits more than just the buyers and sellers.
FoodHub is a online directory and marketplace that makes it easy and efficient for wholesale food buyers and sellers in the Western US to research, connect, and do business.
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Buyers and sellers say that younger brokers can also bring a drive and determination that a more seasoned agent might lack.
And with the mortgage volume confirming the Housing Market Index, it seems buyers and sellers agree that this market will grow.
One of the principal preconditions of a free market and the optimal allocation of resources is an unlimited number of buyers and sellers such that none can influence prices.
The deal came despite a downturn in shipping , in part caused by banks' hesitation to issue the letters of credit that assure transactions between sellers and buyers of cargo.
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