Sentence examples for competing for orders from inspiring English sources

While the American and New York exchanges are competing for orders, major securities firms like Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, the Salomon Smith Barney unit of Citigroup and Merrill Lynch are pushing to trade with their own customers without ever sending the order to an exchange.

And former Soviet states like Ukraine, which also inherited Soviet defense plants, compete for orders that Russia covets.

Nasdaq, by contrast, is primarily a "dealer" market, in which market makers compete for orders by quoting prices at which they are willing to buy or sell.

Pratt & Whitney is stepping up its research and development to better compete for orders for the next generation of regional jets, according to Mark Sullivan, a spokesman for the company.

Retail partners can also work with Jet on how they want to compete for orders, which they can't elsewhere.

Microsoft has a strategy to discount its products heavily when the software giant competes for orders against the emerging licence-free Linux operating system, the International Herald Tribune said.

The two companies are competing for an order valued at more than $35 billion to begin replacing the Air Force's fleet of KC-135 tankers, which are nearly 50 years old.

Though Harrington has done his best to emphasize the positive in his career, he conceded that the pressure of competing for the Order of Merit had driven him closer to the brink than he would have liked.

A high-frequency trader who receives and acts on new information faster than others can readily pick off orders sitting on exchanges – over 40 venues are competing for the same orders – before others can react.

The explosion in computer-based trading has occurred over the past decade as the S.E.C. adopted rules that allowed dozens of new trading venues to compete for stock orders and accelerated the move toward high-frequency trading, which now accounts for 70 percent of daily stock-trading volume.

The contention-based access mechanism in WiFi implies that all the stations have to listen to the channel before competing for the access in order to avoid collision between the frames.