Sentence examples for off the traders from inspiring English sources

Here is how he describes it: First, research officials tipped off the traders; then Lehman's proprietary trading desk, which cast bets with the firm's own money, positioned itself accordingly.

The crucial question is how much he is willing to bend to accommodate taxpayers and lawmakers without scaring off the traders who will be asked to sell as much as $40 billion in bonds.

The British East India Company (see East India Company, British), which established trading stations at Surat (1613), Bombay (now Mumbai; 1661), and Calcutta (now Kolkata; 1691), soon became dominant and with its command of the sea drove off the traders of Portugal and Holland.

Before the Taliban lopped off the traders' hands and the war blew away half the shopfronts, Chicken Street was where the hippies flocked to stock up on Afghan tack.

We can also try to make money off the traders' activities by investing in GIFG, which provides behind the scenes services relating to executing trades involving these products.

(In the SAC case, a doctor is accused of tipping off one of the traders about the not yet public failure of a drug trial).

Luckily for the shooting syndicates, a price rise of 5-6% is not likely to put off the bond traders and hedge-fund managers who have become devotees of the sport.

To Mr. Parmigiani, there was only one explanation: someone inside his own research department had tipped off the firm's traders, as well as some fast-money hedge funds.

It won't matter whether the government can prove the information came from an insider who was off and that the trader knew an insider was the source as long as there is no evidence the trader knew about the payoff.

One of the biggest businesses seems to be the drugs that are sold through a telling handshake: the palm with contraband crosses the palm with cash and the traders saunter off in opposite directions.

By the end of the day, about $1.2 trillion had been knocked off the stock market as traders tried to unload troubled mortgage-backed securities.