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Business English Lesson – Advanced Level's archive
Business Buzzwords: Con Men
1. Connie tried selling her family's camper on an Internet
auction site, only to have a con man make off with it while
sticking her with a check — the buyer sent a check
for $10,500 and sent a driver to pick up the camper, so
Lang turned it over, but two weeks later found out the
check had bounced.

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2. In the charges brought against RT Capital, members of
that firm admitted their actions were against the public
interest: those actions apparently consisted of 53 cases of
causing the price of a security to end the day on an up tick
— a high

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3. Parties to an Exchange for Physical trade, which is
another form of trade permitted by most exchanges,
have considerable leeway in reporting; EFP transactions
can occur at any time, during and after market hours, and
there is no time restriction to report an EFP to the
exchange.

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4. The methods used by Katz created a false and
misleading appearance of trading activity or an artificial
price for the securities of Caprice, and included the
execution and clearing of orders through other member
firms (a ' Trade') to disguise the players in the
market place.

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5. Bridge Mobile Alliance provides a regional shop
that supports enterprises with regional mobile needs; this
means that instead of having to liaise with multiple parties,
you can approach any alliance member to consolidate all
your needs and requirements.

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6. Trend followers know the trick of letting their profits
is key to trading: once you learn that to maximize
your profits you must be willing to give up some part of
your accumulated profits, you are on your way to
sustained success, and refusing to give up a part of that
accumulated income due to fear is a big mistake.

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7. A political split suggests legislative in
Washington, which is not a bad situation for the financial
markets; equity investors tend to favor a divided
government since it usually suggests less government
intervention in the economy and stock market.

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8. For purposes of this rule, "agency transaction for
an advisory client" means a transaction in which a person
acts as an investment adviser in relation to a transaction in
which the investment adviser acts as a broker-dealer for
both the advisory client and another person on the other
side of the transaction.

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9. investing, where small investors mimic the top
pros, may be growing more popular than ever; as markets
have gone nowhere over the past five years they went
down and then recovered the solution is to find people

who you think are making money and attach yourself to
them.

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10. One of U.S. management's big complaints is against
union ; last week the American Institute of
Management warned that unions are not alone in insisting
on unnecessary jobs — management itself is widely guilty
of the practice.

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