Sentence examples for stock firm from inspiring English sources

Financing it all was his nationwide penny stock firm, First Jersey Securities, which he promoted with televised commercials from his helicopter, imploring investors to "Come grow with us".

In the old days, a person — perhaps a broker for a penny stock firm — would have to contact an investor and talk him or her into buying the stock.

In July, a disgruntled day trader, Mark Barton, walked into the Atlanta stock firm where he had lost more than $105,000 and opened fire on customers and employees before killing himself.

[C3.] Stock Firm Accuses Paper of Libel The Financial Times, the newspaper owned by the conglomerate Pearson, is battling legal action by a brokerage firm that contends the newspaper hurt its reputation by making public accusations made by a former employee.

Its brokers and accounts were acquired by Barington Capital Group, a New York-based penny stock firm run by a former Blair executive, James Mitarotonda.

A former principal of one Denver penny stock firm, put out of business amid a barrage of SEC charges, now is boasting to cronies that he's the "silent principal" of a new Denver-based firm.

Penny stock firms do not execute trades in things like collateralized debt obligations.

In fact, state prosecutors say, he was busy controlling two other penny stock firms that used boiler-room tactics similar to those at First Jersey.

To remain a Nasdaq stock, firms must maintain a $1 minimum stock price, among other requirements.

They were all taken public by Stratton Oakmont Inc., a Long Island penny-stock firm that was shut down by the SEC and the National Association of Securities Dealers in 1997.

Until it was shut down in 1989, Investors Center, a big penny-stock firm based in Hauppauge, served as a sort of training school for stock fraud, some regulators say.