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S&P gains as financials' outlook improves; Dow dips - Yahoo Finance
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The S&P 500 rose on Wednesday as investors snapped up shares of bailed-out financial companies on hopes the sector may be poised for a recovery as the U.S. economy improves, while a drop in oil producer Chevron 's stock pushed ...

AIG: Financial Winners and Losers - Street.Com
On Tuesday, rumors circulated that U.S. regulators were considering a ban on short selling any stock with government interest. "There is no truth to the rumor that we are considering restricting the short selling of stocks in which the government has ...

American Eagle, J. Crew set mixed retail tone - Investors Business Daily
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Retail stocks held steady on Wednesday, with American Eagle Outfitters and J. Crew Group pulling the sector in opposite directions in the wake of their quarterly reports. The S&P Retail Index ( RLX ) hovered most of the ...

Susquehanna announces pricing of share offering - Central Penn Business Journal
Susquehanna Bancshares Inc. has announced details of the share offering it is conducting this week. The offering will comprise 37.5 million shares at $8 per share, the Lititz-based parent of Susquehanna Bank said late Tuesday. The offering is ...

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Participants in the stock market range from small individual stock investors to large hedge fund traders, who can be based anywhere. Their orders usually end up with a professional at a stock exchange, who executes the order.

Some exchanges are physical locations where transactions are carried out on a trading floor, by a method known as open outcry. This type of auction is used in stock exchanges and commodity exchanges where traders may enter "verbal" bids and offers simultaneously. The other type of stock exchange is a virtual kind, composed of a network of computers where trades are made electronically via traders.

Actual trades are based on an auction market paradigm where a potential buyer bids a specific price for a stock and a potential seller asks a specific price for the stock. (Buying or selling at market means you will accept any ask price or bid price for the stock, respectively.) When the bid and ask prices match, a sale takes place on a first come first served basis if there are multiple bidders or askers at a given price.

The purpose of a stock exchange is to facilitate the exchange of securities between buyers and sellers, thus providing a marketplace (virtual or real). The exchanges provide real-time trading information on the listed securities, facilitating price discovery.[source:Wikipedia]

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