(n.) The fee, reward, or commission, given or changed for transacting business as a broker.
Example Sentences:
(1) EUCommerce, a brokerage firm representing the seller, told prospective buyers: "If you want to avoid all the red tape for the ambitious and serious project of starting a school, this is a fantastic opportunity.
(2) It documents Belfort's activities at the discredited Stratton Oakmont brokerage house in the 1990s, which eventually saw the stockbroker convicted of money-laundering and securities fraud.
(3) In New Zealand, Global Brokers NZ said it was closing down as it could no longer meet local regulatory requirements and in New York the US foreign exchange brokerage FXCM was scrambling to raise funds to avert collapse.
(4) Being mayor is about being the glue of the town, bringing the right people together, it’s like being a brokerage of partnerships.
(5) I met two bankers, Ellen and Deboden who had completed paid internships via the Brokerage Citylink, at Royal Bank of Canada and HSBC respectively, when they left school several years ago.
(6) For example, our brokerage service developed with Blackpool council and our Activities Unlimited scheme developed with Suffolk county council are two examples of how the public purse can "save" when disabled people themselves decide, design and determine the support they want.
(7) The brokerages would not sell as long as the Shanghai composite remained below 4,500 points.
(8) But his problems ballooned when he opted to buy the struggling Wall Street brokerage Merrill Lynch for $50bn in September 2008 in a takeover arranged at lightning speed just as Lehman Brothers was going bankrupt.
(9) Our work with partners in Kenya and Sierra Leone suggests that adopting such an approach, underpinned by the concepts of entrustment and brokerage, is essential and can reap benefits.
(10) In fact, drawn by the casino-like profits to be made in the boom, more and more small investors flocked to the thousands of brokerage houses that are now proliferating in every Chinese city in order to buy and sell while staring up at flickering electronic data boards charting the rise and fall of equity prices.
(11) The City regulator, the FSA, said UBS had colluded with interdealer brokers to influence submissions to the yen Libor rate and that corrupt brokerage payments of thousands of pounds a quarter were made to reward brokers for their efforts to manipulate the Libor submissions of other banks on the Libor panel.
(12) Questions are raised about the illegality of such contracts in Britain and the possibility of a Parliamentary Act making brokerage and involvement with such cash transactions a criminal offense.
(13) Through Workplace , the largest jobs brokerage service of its kind in the country, more than 22,000 residents have found work.
(14) It took barely 10 minutes for a room full of sombre shareholders to deliver the last rites yesterday to Bear Stearns , the 85-year-old Wall Street brokerage once feared for its swashbuckling, high-risk culture of aggression.
(15) It took just 48 hours of negotiations for Merrill to bargain away its 94-year history as an independent Wall Street brokerage by agreeing to the all-share deal.
(16) It also offers a two year fix at 5.39% for an LTV of up to 80% Despite the certainty of monthly repayment size that they offer, fixed-rate deals have continued to lose popularity – according to mortgage brokerage John Charcol – with variable rates now taking almost two-thirds of the market.
(17) It has come to our attention that a number of retail brokerages have announced that this has resulted in them experiencing acute financial pressure.
(18) The brokerage cuts its price target for Apple's stock to $700, substantially down from $780, on the expectation of lower iPhone and iPad shipments in the first quarter of 2013.
(19) China has arranged a curb on new share issues and enlisted brokerages and fund managers to buy massive amounts of shares, helped by China’s state-backed margin finance company, the China Securities Finance Corporation (CSFC), which in turn has a direct line of liquidity from the central bank.
(20) Some of the brokerage customers were frantically punching buttons as if playing on games consoles.
Stockbroker
Definition:
(n.) A broker who deals in stocks.
Example Sentences:
(1) It will require UK banks, stockbrokers and investment firms to carry out intensive checks on whether their UK customers have links to the US – for example, whether any of them were born in the US; have a US phone number; regularly send money to a US bank account; and whether they hold a US green card.
(2) Lawyers, accountants and stockbrokers are also expected to attend the first major meeting held by Hoban since he replaced Lord Myners after the general election.
(3) Thus fattened for market, a basket-case operation became an investment proposition which – in the words of one London stockbroker – promises " a royal return on your money ".
(4) So, even while he was still performing, he applied to train as a stockbroker.
(5) "The US business seems to have turned a corner, and the increase to a dividend which already yields 3.3% is an indication of management confidence in future prospects," said Richard Hunter, head of equities at Hargreaves Lansdown Stockbrokers.
(6) We decided to go forward anyway with two others – Catherine Stacpole, whose son was a well-known monk and writer and a man called Francis Whigham, a stockbroker who had done a great deal of work at Lourdes as a stretcher carrier and helper with the disabled.
(7) Eamonn Flanagan at stockbroker Shore Capital said: "A positive statement with a healthy focus on Asia.
(8) It documents Belfort's activities at the discredited Stratton Oakmont brokerage house in the 1990s, which eventually saw the stockbroker convicted of money-laundering and securities fraud.
(9) Richard Hunter, head of equities at stockbrokers Hargreaves Lansdown, said: "Investors have come to expect much of Whitbread and these numbers do not disappoint.
(10) Robin Byde, an analyst at the stockbroker Cantor Fitzgerald, said: “A lot of companies are being very cautious on the outlook at the moment and I think we will see a lot more of that.
(11) Keith Bowman, an analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown stockbrokers, said: For investors, and in the current ultra-low interest rate environment, the cut to the dividend payment is a major blow.
(12) More than anything the Champions League deal is about getting one of the monkeys off their back,” said Sam McHugh, an analyst at stockbroker Exane.
(13) Nuttall’s predecessor, Nigel Farage, is a master of the grift, leveraging cigarettes, pints of beer and opposition to the metric system into an apparently unassailable cloak of authenticity draped over his privately educated stockbroker carcass.
(14) The controversial figure whose memoir formed the basis of Leonardo DiCaprio's unhinged stockbroker in Martin Scorsese's Oscar-nominated black comedy The Wolf of Wall Street has revealed his debauched life of sex and drugs was "even worse" than shown in the film.
(15) Richard Hunter, head of UK equities at stockbroker Hargreaves Lansdown, said Sainsbury's value food ranges were becomingly increasingly important as "the consumer concentrates more discerningly on the household budget".
(16) Richard Hunter, head of equities at Hargreaves Lansdown stockbrokers Whether precipitated by the falling oil price or BG’s more recent production woes, Shell has acted opportunistically, as it previously implied it might if the occasion arose.
(17) Casting a wide net, the diplomats targeted banks that advise the companies as well as City firms that provide stockbroking services or write research notes about the five, a list that includes Panmure Gordon and Oriel Securities.
(18) Meanwhile James Faucette at the stockbrokers Pacific Crest, who has a "sell" rating on BlackBerry, said in a research note looking at sales in the UK and Canada that in his opinion, "sell-through run-rates for the Z10 have declined meaningfully in the weeks following launch.
(19) Analysis by the stockbroker BGC Partners raised concerns over Pfizer's pledges on R&D.
(20) Gert Zonneveld, managing director of stockbroker Panmure Gordon, has said he believes the true value of Royal Mail could prove to be up to £4.5bn, while stockbroker ETX Capital said exceptional demand from retail investors would drive the shares as high as 365p on the first day.