what do letters ECN indicate on share market bid/ask fields?
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Electronic Communication Network ("ECN") is a non-exchange computer network to facilitate trading of financial products, primarily equities ("stocks") and currencies (aka "FX" / Foreign exchange market).\n\nECNs and the Equities Market\n\nFor equities, ECN's exist as a class of SEC permitted Alternative Trading Systems ("ATS". As an ATS, ECNs exclude broker-dealers' internal crossing systems – i.e., systems that match orders at the broker-dealer using prices from an exchange, without actually sending the order to a public venue.\n\nECNs were born out of the Nasdaq Market Makers Antitrust Litigation led by lawyer William Lerach. The litigation alleged collusion between Wall Street traders, and was proven in 1998, leading to a $1 billion settlement from major Wall Street firms. At the time of the settlement, the SEC also put in a new regulation, the Limit Order Display Rule (rule 11Ac1-4), which authorized "electronic communication networks," or ECNs.\n\nMajor ECNs that became active at this time were Instinet and Island, (which were since merged into INET and acquired by NASDAQ), Archipelago Exchange (which acquired the NYSE), and Brut (now acquired by NASDAQ).\n\nBy 2001, 50% of OTC trading was done through ECNs. ECNs increased competition amongst trading firms by lowering transaction costs, giving clients full access to their order books, and offering order matching outside of traditional exchange hours.\n\nHow ECNs Work\n\nIn order to trade with an ECN, one must be a subscriber. ECN subscribers can enter limit orders into the ECN, usually via a custom computer terminal or a direct dial-up. The ECN will post those orders on the system for other subscribers to view. The ECN will then match contra-side orders (ie, a sell-order is "contra-side" to a buy-order with the with the same price and share count) for execution. Generally, the buyer and seller are anonymous, with the trade execution reports listing the ECN as the party.\n\nSome ECNs may offer additional features to subscribers such as negotiation or reserve size, and may have access to the entire ECN book (as opposed to the "top of the book") that contains important real-time market data regarding depth of trading interest.\n\nECNs and the FX Market\n\nBy trading through an ECN an FX client generally gets a better price than trading by voice over the phone. Other benefits are greater price transparency, faster processing, increased liquidity and more availability in the marketplace. The banks also lower their costs as there is less manual involvement.
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CFTN has changed to CFTN.PK... I could not find enough information on this company to warrant a recommendation.  Available information is available at the Yahoo! Finance link below, but certainly I would want to read their annual report before considering them.\nhttp://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=CFTN.PK
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It means that the stock is selling on the over the counter bulletin board.  This suggests that it is a stock that doesn't live up to the guidelines necessary to trade on the regular market.  In general, it means you should avoid the stock unless you have outstanding certainty that it's worth gambling.  \n\nThis question has been answered before, so I included the link to it as well.
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if you are asking for indain . \n\n its not registered . so be carefull \n\n & read all document b4 investing .
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It's a negative prefix, meaning not, or the opposite of, or to reverse or undo.\n\nIn the stock market, it means "unit shares".
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Look up stock symbol  BBBB\nThey have evrything.
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It is a Public Income note - basically a hybrid equity/debt security.  Companies issue them to raise capital, much like a preferred stock.  People buy them for the dividend flow, typically.
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Yes.  Market value per share is synonymous with the latest price per share.  The exception to the rule is if official share trading has been halted, whereupon unofficial (over-the-counter) trading is then the market value.
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Nothing to do with it....... they've been dropping a bit all over the place the last few weeks (or in the case of one or two of my UK stocks plummeting)...... I think it's a mix of the US dollar heading down in value, certain members of financial officialdom doing / saying the wrong things + I've noticed alot of Dividend payments cropping up on my SHAREBUILDER statements lately (already had 4 of them over Monday & Tuesday).
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It probably doesn't have a recognized ticker symbol on most websites, but you can look it up on Morningstar (ticker symbol F0002A, or use the link below).
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Well, the answer to your last question is... they can if they want to.\n\nI don't have the answer to your first question.  But I do have a tip.  If you get 'no such stock symbol', then do a yahoo web search on the ticker.  The first result for MACR was the fiance page, which when click yielded the same result.  But, if you click the 'cached' button on the search results, you see the last known good page of that.... so it's the best you can get on Yahoo I suppose.  The cached page shows the merger headline, which would point you in the right direction.
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Yahoo.com has quotes from many exchanges worldwide:\nhttp://finance.yahoo.com/exchanges\nfor XETRA Stock Exchange (Germany),\nYahoo.com uses the suffix ".DE"\n\nIBM  (NYSE)  http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=ibm\nIBM.DE (XETRA) http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=ibm.de\n... etc.\n\nBigCharts.com also supports worldwide exchanges,\nbut uses prefixes rather than suffixes:\nhttp://www.bigcharts.com/ \nuse symbol IBM for NYSE quote;\nsymbol DE:IBM (Frankfurt);\nsymbol MX:IBM (Mexico);\nsymbol UK:IBM (London);\n... etc.\n\nI could not find a similar flag at Excite.com or Google.com\nhttp://money.excite.com/\nhttp://finance.google.com/finance
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Mid-may. Google for 'ICSE RESULTS 2006' . You'll get it. Best of luck, hun!
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Are you talking about LMC--Lundin Mining Corp on the Amex, or IMC Mortgage--IMCC on the Over The Counter trade?  We usually use the all upper-case for the symbols because, in this case, we cannot be sure since the lower-case "L" can look like an upper-case "i".
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What's the symbol?  It's possible that the symbol is no longer valid.  It may have changed (this happened with Phillip Morris, which became Altria), the company may have been bought out and been absorbed into the new parent company (as happened with Compaq when they were purchased by Hewlett-Packard) or the company may have been delisted.\n\nIf any of those things happened, they wouldn't be on *any* financial site, Yahoo! or otherwise.
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I can't answer this specifically for those companies, but what generally happens is that your stock is converted to stock in the new company, at a rate specified by the takeover company. (1 share in the new company for every 2 shares owned in the target company, for example)  You should receive a letter soon, explaining what has happened.
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it is a stock trading program you probably signed up for by mistake, look in the email somewhere it should have a link to opt out