Word: stocking
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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What should you do? Odds are, you're sitting on unrealized losses. Consider selling to offset your realized gains. You can buy a stock back after 31 days without losing the tax benefits. If you think a stock will begin to rebound before you get a chance to buy it back, consider doubling up now and selling the original shares after 31 days if they still represent a loss. If you invest in funds, sell a loser and immediately buy another fund with the same objective to lock in the loss without losing out on any rally...
...WALKER Priceline boss's stock tumbles; grocery and gas biz shuttered. But we still love Shatner...
POSERS If you're scouring the Web for that pre-IPO stock that will bring you riches, take heed. The SEC has been cracking down on a number of companies that use the Internet to make false and misleading pre-IPO claims and stock offers, either through their websites or spam messages. In most cases, these companies have no hope of ever going public. Last month 1stBuy.com settled with the sec after allegedly defrauding more than 1,000 investors of $3.8 million. If it looks too good to be true, chances...
...more and more cases, is to route the trade through Gerald Putnam's Archipelago. The Chicago firm, which created one of a new class of trading systems known as electronic communications networks (ECNs), can instantly determine where the best price is--on traditional markets, like the New York Stock Exchange, AMEX and NASDAQ, or among orders that come directly into Archipelago. Trades on the fully automated system are completed in less than a second, while a typical trade on the N.Y.S.E. takes 22 sec. "That's a lifetime in an active market," says CEO Putnam. "Our advantage comes from having...
...Putnam, 42, who studied accounting at the University of Pennsylvania, wasn't content to run just a trading network. He's making Archipelago a full-fledged exchange this year by buying the equities arm of the Pacific Stock Exchange. This means that Archipelago will list companies on its own and try to lure blue chips away from other exchanges. If Putnam has his way, Wall Street will no longer be the best route to Easy Street...