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
By contrast, publicly traded BDCs offer investors the chance to buy and sell shares on the stock market whenever they want.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 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
Prediction markets are online marketplaces that allow people to buy and sell stakes in futures of almost anything, from sporting events to asset prices, elections and military conflicts.
From Barron's • Apr. 7, 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
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