stockbroker

“That’s the day I call a stockbroker and say, ‘Hey, I’m good with 6%—that’s 600% more than I’ve been getting.’”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

His father, a stockbroker, and his mother, a salesclerk, divorced when Greenspan was 3.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2026

Born on March 6, 1926, Greenspan grew up an only child raised mostly by his mother after she separated from his stockbroker father.

From Barron's ● Jun. 22, 2026

Powell grew up in Didsbury, Manchester, an area which has been variously dubbed the "stockbroker" or "muesli" belt following a few years of gentrification.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2025

“The thing is, I’m having a cash-flow problem and I’ll have to scramble to find even thirty-five dollars. I’m a stockbroker and I work from home and I’m a bit overextended right now.”

From "Lawn Boy" by Gary Paulsen

“The Forsytes” is inspired by Galsworthy’s family of extremely wealthy stockbrokers in late-Victorian London, an age in which nobility’s influence and social dominance receded with the rise of new money.

From Salon ● Mar. 28, 2026

It was in that same spirit that 24 stockbrokers got together on Wall Street in 1792 to sign the Buttonwood Agreement External link, starting what would become the New York Stock Exchange.

From Barron's ● Jan. 13, 2026

Since that document was signed on May 17, 1792, by 24 stockbrokers who often conducted business under a buttonwood tree outside 68 Wall St., the financial markets have eagerly embraced new technologies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2025

“The cracks appearing in luxury demand are very telling,” said Sophie Lund-Yates, an analyst at stockbrokers Hargreaves Lansdown.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 12, 2024

With 2,300 journalists around the world, in 197 bureaus, serving a market including investment bankers, derivatives traders, stockbrokers, newspapers, radio, television, and Internet outlets, Reuters has always had a very complex audience to satisfy.

From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman