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stock jobber BrE
market maker

Clement spent his early career as a stock jobber and merchant.

And do not make deals with special interest groups, such as the City stock jobbers whom Burke so distrusted.

He was a real character and one of the many stock jobbers that adapted to "life upstairs" when the stock exchange floor disappeared.

A well-respected City stock jobber, John Jenkins, came to their rescue.

Merchants, importers/exporters, and "stock jobbers" were growing very wealthy.

Du Boulay was a stock jobber.

In Roth's book there is comment about how members of the Jewish community were stock jobbers on the Royal Exchange.

Many stock jobbers, who had been expelled from the Royal Exchange for their rude manners, also migrated to Jonathan's and Garraway's.

He saw regulation as necessary to protect investors and other businessmen from the capriciousness of a hostile public or the machinations of other unscrupulous stock jobbers.

Akroyd Smithers, Wedd Durlacher, Pinchin Denny and Bisgood Bishop were among the leading stock jobbers.

And he sometimes prepared a bill for Congress with out consulting his Cabinet, for fear that the stock jobbers might get wind of it and bull or bear the market with the news.

Change Alley in the South Sea Bubble", Edward Matthew Ward's painting now in the Tate Gallery, skewers stock jobbers' opportunism and the foolishness of investors."

Kenneth Lockwood was the son of a stock jobber on the London Stock Exchange and on leaving school followed his father into the firm: working on the floor as a "blue-button".

Three decades ago, brokers and dealers (the latter were known as stock jobbers in Britain) were separate partnerships, owned by the management whose personal wealth was on the line every day, in every trade.

One day a ruined stock jobber (speculator) who had borrowed money from him asks for clemency and annoys Tom who says, "The Devil take me if I have made but a farthing!"

In 1887 WABG married Florence Nickalls, eldest daughter of Tom Nickalls, the "Erie King" a successful London financier and Railroad stock jobber.

It also reminds me of the way the City of London was organised before the Big Bang deregulation in 1986, when stock brokers were separated from stock jobbers (what would now be known as marketmakers).

Ms. Churchill opens her play with an excerpt from a 1692 Thomas Shadwell comedy about stock jobbers -and a bit of "The Solid Gold Cadillac" could have made the same plus ca change point.

The play, which begins with a scene borrowed from "The Volunteers, or the Stock Jobbers," a 1692 romp by Thomas Shadwell, is a kind of neo-Restoration comedy of ill manners and strangulated morality.

We recognize a short-loan market, a stock exchange, a number of "markets" where lenders and borrowers are brought together by the aid of various intermediaries, such as banks, bill brokers, and stock jobbers, who correspond to dealers in commodities.

Taylor's solution to the effects of factionalism was to "remove the base from under the stock jobbers, the banks, the paper money party, the tariff-supported manufacturers, and so on; destroy the system of patronage by which the executive has corrupted the legislature; bring down the usurped authority of the Supreme Court."

Dyne Fenton Smith was born in 1890 in Hove, Sussex, the eldest son of Charles Edward Smith, a stock jobber who although born in France was of British parentage, and his wife Caroline Constance Fenton from Goodmanham, Yorkshire.

If 100 years ago some Wall Street stock jobber had picked up the Dow Jones industrial average (which first appeared on May 26, 1896) and insisted that the Dow's biggest sector - farming - would, in 1996, give way to aerospace, retail and oil and chemicals companies, he would have been thought an idle speculator.

LONDON -- “Through the contrivance and cunning of stock jobbers there hath been brought in such a complication of knavery and cozenage, such a mystery of iniquity, and such an unintelligible jargon of terms to involve it in, as were never known in any other age or country.”

The jobbers Stockjobber would create trade by pretending they had.

The Stockjobber has no country, except his own black pool of Agio.

He was in debt from earlier stockjobbing to George Robinson (a stockjobber).

Privately educated he became a stockjobber.

Born in 1858 into a wealthy family, Newman had an initial career as stockjobber in the City of London.

His father was a stockjobber on the London Stock Exchange with a particular expertise in investing in American railroads.

His father was a stockjobber of Huguenot descent and he was a distant cousin of the author Perceval Landon.

It was set up by a veteran City stockjobber, John Jenkins, when the LSE, in its infinite wisdom, decided to end its off-market, matched-bargains operation.

The son of Victor Romaine Stokes, a stockjobber, Stokes was educated at Haileybury College and Queen's College, Oxford.

The leading execution-only stockbroker TD Waterhouse reported a dramatic trading upsurge last week and it is rumoured that stockjobber Winterfood Securities was inundated with trades on one day recently.

Newman had already had three different careers, as a stockjobber, a bass soloist,In the first years of the hall, Newman twice stood in as bass soloist in emergencies and was well received.

In London a Jewish stockjobber (stock trader) dies mysteriously a day after one of his clients commits suicide, and Benjamin Weaver, the estranged son of the trader, budding sleuth and former pugilist, seeks the answer.

In London, the firm, created for London's 1986 Big Bang by the merger of a stockbroker and stockjobber, has a formidable team of bond and equity salesmen; it also has good contacts with company finance-directors and treasurers.

A major participant in the "Big Bang" reforms of the 1980s under the leadership of its Chief Executive Sir David Scholey, it acquired stockjobber Ackroyd & Smithers, stock broker Rowe & Pitman and the government gilt broker Mullens & Co.

The son of Samuel Lienzo, a Jewish "stockjobber," or broker, who died when run down by a drunken coachman, Weaver has changed his name - not to deny his heritage (he fought as "the Lion of Judah") but to reject his father and the insecurities of his father's world.

The finance in "A Conspiracy of Paper" was about as personal as it could get: the novel's hero, Benjamin Weaver, set out in 1719 to investigate whether the death of his father, a "stockjobber," was related to speculative machinations involving the South Sea Company and the Bank of England.