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    of ImClone after she received specific inside information regarding the status of the companies business. A series of events led to an investigation‚ interviews‚ indictments‚ a trial & sentencing of Martha Stewart to 5 months in a minimum security prison camp and then 5 months of home confinement. Merril Lynch tipped off the Securities & Exchange commission to report the possibility of insider trading on Imclong‚ and launched the joint investigation with the FBI into whether or not Ms. Stewart

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    or Fat Finger ----Evaluation of the reliability in stock trading system SYSEN5300 Project Proposal Sep 25‚ 2013 Yicheng Huang Yuhong Ding Anuj Gautam Introduction and Statement of the project The stock trading system is always connoted as ‘Golden Finger’ for its amazing speed and striking efficiency to achieve the money snowballing in the stock market. High returns come with high risks. The reliability of the whole trading system is the key point deciding whether the market runs

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    Insider Trading Jf July 1992

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    acquisition of Campbell Taggart‚ explains how the inside information was generated and transmitted‚ and describes the insider trading data. Section II discusses some empirical implications of models of informed trading. Section III presents the empirical results‚ including a trade-by-trade analysis of the behavior of Campbell Taggart’s stock price in response to the insider trading. The final section discusses the implications of the findings and. summarizes our conclusions. I. The Acquisition of Campbell

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    Abstract When it comes to electronic trading‚ for most individual investors‚ taking a long-term buy and hold approach is probably the best strategy. Electronic trading refers to the trading of securities (equities and derivatives) in the stock exchanges‚ without‚ or with minimal human intervention. In simple words it means to buy or sell a commodity or a security through a computer or more precisely it is the electronic implementation of financial systems. The paper aims to highlight the growth

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    PROJECT ON A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF ONLINE AND OFFLINE TRADING -AN EXPLORATORY STUDY FOR INDIA INFOLINE ‚ COIMBATORE. By

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    becomes a completely different situation. I always hold the viewpoint that there are players other than a competitor in any business activity‚ unlike in poker games. These players‚ including employees‚ suppliers‚ partners and clients‚ are key to companies’ long term development‚ therefore a relationship of mutual benefits should be built up. And the foundation of such relationship is trust. Bluffing does not help with that. Once a bluff fails or is exposed later‚ the trust will be damaged and never

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    “Cigarette Money- Trading in a Prisoners-of-War-Camp” 1) Introduction This paper focuses on the analysis of the Prisoners-of-War Camp (POW Camp from now on) as depicted by R.A. Radford regarding various economical matters and behavioural aspects of its inhabitants. First of all the organisation of the POW Camp itself will be explained with a secondary focus on the extent‚ to which organisational structures foster a functioning market. Afterwards the emergence of cigarettes as a currency in the

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    not allowed to write. However‚ some slaves were taught or learned how to read and write while they were still slaves. Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs gave their account of their slave life in Douglass’ Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass‚ an American Slave and Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Both Douglass and Jacobs believed slavery to be a curse and a demon‚ but had different experiences with slavery. Douglass grew up in a home where his mother was taken from him

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    Harriet Jacobs overcoming adversity Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is Harriet Jacobs’ story of everything she faced as a woman born into slavery. Using the alias Linda Brent she wrote of the situations she had to overcome. Jacobs not only had to handle being a female slave but she was subjected to sexual harassment by an owner‚ physiological abuse‚ having to be confined in her grandmother’s attic causing physical problems‚ and continuously trying to run to avoid slavery. Harriet was a woman

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    212 21.01.14 American Dream Ever since America has been explored and colonized. The conception of an ideological dream has been at the forefront. America has continually provided an arena for those in individuals seeking economic‚ governmental and religious growth. The concept of American dream starts as European in a nature. Italian explorer Christopher Columbus and his voyage‚ as well as John Smith and his voyage were a recognizable spark that reinforced the concept of American Dream. Columbus

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