buy and sell
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“They may pass the costs to the American importer and exporter and ultimately to their customers, whether it be American consumers, factories or others who buy and sell these products.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2026
They proceeded to buy and sell the token themselves to build a price history that would eventually fool Drift’s automated protocols into accepting the fake token as real collateral.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026
Closed-ends are regulated mutual funds that trade like regular shares, and which you buy and sell on the exchange.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 12, 2026
Some users online said they used them to invest in stocks, claiming their "lobsters" analysed the best times to buy and sell, and even did the deed, despite the risk of costly errors.
From BBC • Apr. 5, 2026
More to the point, rich people were typically not invited to buy and sell esoteric securities, such as credit default swaps, not traded on open exchanges.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
