Sentence examples for lone trader from inspiring English sources

Market watchers are blaming a lone trader with a "fat finger".

But the bank continued to portray the calamity as the latest case of a lone trader gone rogue.

If so, that would mean a lone trader sitting in his parents' West London home was responsible for setting off a stampede on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean that erased trillions of dollars of wealth, albeit temporarily.

In France, where a lone trader at Société Générale is under investigation for running up huge losses, raising question about its controls, the bank's board and the French business elite rallied around the chief executive, Daniel Bouton.

While the lone trader was apparently looking for vanity bragging rights, the spike in crude prices of $3.64 for the day reflected deeper worldwide trends, including the surge in demand from China, India and the oil-producing countries themselves.

The war of every man against every man – competition and individualism, in other words – is the religion of our time, justified by a mythology of lone rangers, sole traders, self-starters, self-made men and women, going it alone.

But the evidence that the Congressional committee turns up does illuminate the limits of the lone-trader story.

"There are some great individuals working within these organisations, but they tend to be lone wolves or sole traders", he notes.

According to accounts in the British media, he was a lone day trader who often conducted business out of his parents' modest suburban home, near Heathrow Airport.

PARIS — The French bank Société Générale, facing persistent questions over how a lone, junior trader could have instigated more than $7 billion in losses, acknowledged on Sunday that his activities prompted questions from risk managers several times last year, but that the bank never began an investigation because his explanations defused any suspicions.

Executives of Allied Irish Bank woke up yesterday morning and announced they had lost $750 million, all because of the actions of a lone currency trader in its subsidiary in Baltimore.