That means an investment horizon of years, not months, and a willingness to wait days, not minutes, for a trade to be executed at the price you want.

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Neil Mellor, a currency strategist at Bank of New York Mellon, said Mr Carswell's plan would have to be executed on a massive scale for it to have any impact on the economy.

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The victim's father said he backed calls for the men to be executed if found guilty.

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The sudden downward move caused stop orders for many stocks to be executed, leaving some shareholders with unanticipated losses or realized capital gains.

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The defense will have an opportunity to ask the jury for mercy and present evidence to support why Arias should not be executed.

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Under the proposal, trades in listed stocks would have to be executed within a range tied to recent prices for that security.

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Nasdaq said that for trades to qualify for compensation, they had to be placed at certain price levels, be executed incorrectly or encounter other errors defined by Nasdaq.

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But the devil is more likely to be found in the execution details, and good strategic choices executed in a clumsy manner are not a recipe for success.

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The decline in the number who prefer the death penalty as the punishment for murder may be related to the growing number who believe that at least one person in the past five years has been executed for a crime that he or she did not commit.

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