This ETF holds sixty different private equity companies that trade on both the US and global exchanges and yields almost 3%.

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We trade everything from equity and index options to longs and shorts on individual stocks.

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In future, if investors cannot get a good deal trading in one country's equity markets, they will trade the same shares on another's.

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That would crystallise their negative equity, scuppering their plans to trade up or move on.

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Some investors who trade on fundamental aspects of business may consider MIPS Technologies to be an interesting equity.

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While FINRA has historically played a key role in combating insider trading, the SEC recently unveiled plans to develop a centralized database that would store information on every single trade order, execution, and cancellation across across numerous equity and options trading markets.

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The administrators said they had spoken to more than 100 parties in the first few days of their appointment - including eight trade and private-equity firms tabling bids - but the level of cash on offer and other factors were not enough.

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Foreign stocks that trade on U.S. exchanges are not included in total U.S. equity indices.

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In 1981, according to the Securities Industry Association, a trade body in America, large investment banks earned an average 50% return on their equity.

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In that deal, the trade group got an upfront equity stake and warrants to be earned as its dealers traded on the exchange.

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