Word: broker
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...Tian had an inkling the tide might be turning on Nov. 5. That's the day he sat in the private trading room that Shanghai Securities, his broker, makes available to their sophisticated clients and awaited the highly anticipated Shanghai-market debut of PetroChina, China's biggest oil-and-gas conglomerate. PetroChina was raising $8.9 billion, the largest initial public stock offering in China ever, and the buzz surrounding the listing was deafening. Tian thought the shares would quickly become overpriced, so he decided not to even try to buy. Indeed, PetroChina shares nearly tripled that first day, pegging...
...film, Cogan, a part-time real estate broker, contends that Bill and Hillary Clinton defrauded businessman Peter Paul into footing the almost $2 million bill for a Clinton fundraiser in August 2000. Cogan’s film says Bill Clinton promised he would enter into business with Paul, a former convict for cocaine possession, after leaving the White House...
Microsoft's partnership with Facebook, which also buys it the rights to broker all international ads, puts the company back in a game that it was struggling to keep up with. By partnering with Facebook, it has also kept key competitors at bay. "The investment Microsoft made was in keeping Google out," says analyst Rob Enderle. Not only will Microsoft garner more revenues by serving up ads for Facebook (the exact revenue split has not been disclosed, but is probably about 20% going to Microsoft) but it also has a great shot at getting its search engine built into Facebook...
...Arab worry, sources say, reflects persistent doubts about how far Bush is really prepared to go - for example, in applying pressure on Israel to make concessions - to broker a historic peace deal. "The record of the administration does not bode well," says an Arab official. "This Administration has not done anything on the Palestinian issue, apart from saying in 2002 that they want a Palestinian state but failing to follow up on that. Getting anything out of them has involved getting it with a big wrench...
...knows how best to define what guests want out of a charter. They know how to quickly tweak itineraries and deal with demanding requests. "You'd be hard-pressed to find a resort that has the ratio of staff to guests that a charter has," says Jeff Beneville, a broker at Camper & Nicholsons...