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BNET Business Dictionary

Business Definition for: Stockbroker

  • somebody who arranges the sale and purchase of stocks

Wiktionary Definition for: Stockbroker

  • finance A person who buys and sells shares (stock) on a stock exchange on behalf of clients. May also provide investment advice and/or company information, depending on the level of service offered (or chosen by the client).

Additional Resources

QuesTec Retains Stockbroker Relations
DEER PARK, N.Y.--BUSINESS WIRE--April 8, 1998--QuesTec Imaging Inc. QuesTec (NASD-BB:QSTI), developer and marketer of proprietary software systems that capture, render and display real-time graphic simulations for sports entertainment, display media, business and industry, has retained Stockbroker Relations Inc. to handle stockbroker and shareholder relations for the company. ...
Tags: Business Wire, FINANCE, shareholder, TV
Research articles 1998-04-08
Smartek, Inc. In Negotiations to Hire Stockbroker Associates
NEW YORK--BUSINESS WIRE--Dec. 4, 1998--Smartek, Inc. (OTC BB:SMEK), a corporation with their headquarters in New York, is taking another step to increase the awareness of its own company by entering negotiations with Stockbroker Associates, a public relations firm. Stockbroker Associates is a full service agency...
Tags: Business Wire, FINANCE, financial, MARKETING, Nasdaq Stock Market Inc., negotiation
Research articles 1998-12-04
A bloodless execution on the internet
ON THE stock market, timing can be critical. Investors who are trying to profit from short-term movements in share values need to deal quickly. When they strike a bargain, they need to know they have traded at that price. The conventional way to trade is by phoning a...
Tags: Charles Schwab & Co. Inc., FINANCE, INTERNET, Investment
Research articles 1998-12-20
Stockbroker in court.
Mar 24, 2003 (The Mercury - ABIX via COMTEX) Stockbroker Rene Rivkin has pleaded not guilty to insider trading in the Supreme Court of New South Wales. It has been alleged the prominent stockbroker used inside knowledge to buy 50,000 shares in Qantas...
Tags: FINANCE, Investment, Qantas Airways Ltd., Strategy
Research articles 2003-03-25
Merrill may show that stockbrokers are not an endangered species.
Byline: Ian Kerr Do you remember when it was fashionable to be a stockbroker? If you do, you are probably over 50. For years it worked like a dream. I know, because I used to work for Strauss Turnbull Very RIP as a stockbroker.For...
Tags: Entrepreneurship, FINANCE, Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., SALES
Research articles 2004-02-29
Letter To Stockbroker Requesting Current Value Of Portfolio
This letter requests an analysis from your stockbroker regarding the current value of your stock portfolio.
Tags: Stock, Portfolio, Letter, Best Sample Letters, Investment, Finance
Tools & templates 2008-01-01
SEC Settles with Fake Broker. (Street Crime).(Securities and Exchange Commission, Mark Snader)(Brief Article)
NOT EVERYONE can be a stockbroker, and the SEC wants to make sure things stay that way. NOT EVERYONE can be a stockbroker, and the SEC wants to make sure things stay that way.
Tags: SEC
Research articles 2002-01-01
Stocking up - qualifying for a stockbroker license - Brief Article
I would like to become a stockbroker dealing in shares-on the Nasdaq and New York exchanges. Is there an examination I would need to take to qualify for a license? S.V., League City, TexasThe National Association of Securities Dealers, in Washington, D.C., administers the tests that people must pass before...
Tags: NASD, Nasdaq Stock Market Inc.
Research articles 1996-05-01
SEC Settles With Fake Broker. (Street Crime).(Brief Article)
NOT EVERYONE can be a stockbroker, and the SEC wants to make sure things stay that way. NOT EVERYONE can be a stockbroker, and the SEC wants to make sure things stay that way.
Tags: SEC
Research articles 2001-12-01
Move to improve quality of stockbroker advice.
ABIX via COMTEX) -- An Australian Government inquiry will review the independence of stockbroker advice and the adequacy of corporate disclosure rules. The review comes amid concerns that stockbrokers could show bias towards companies they are associated with. This has been highlighted by the prosecution of...
Tags: Australia, FINANCE, investor, Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc.
Research articles 2002-06-24
Brokers Play Games with Names
N.Y. Times News Service NEW YORK _ Wondering whether you misheard the name of the company your stockbroker works for? Did you mistakenly think the check you wrote was to one of Wall Street's long established, top bracket firms? Better ask for ownership...
Tags: Banking, game, NASD, SALES
Research articles 1995-01-17
This should be the death of a salesman.
Byline: Ian Kerr, Personal View The identity of the inventor of the popular image of the stockbroker as a financial professional and a pillar of suburban society has faded into the mists of time. I suspect he or she was a liar living in...
Tags: Branding, FINANCE, Investment, MARKETING, Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., Morgan Stanley, SALES
Research articles 2003-06-29
BRIEFS
Prosecutors push to hold fugitive stockbroker CLEVELAND - A stockbroker suspected of defrauding clients should remain in federal custody, prosecutors said Thursday. But defense attorneys told U.S. Magistrate Judge William Baughman that Frank Gruttadauria, 44, should be released to electronic home monitoring, saying he is not...
Tags: Cleveland, FBI, Government, prosecutor
Research articles 2002-02-15
Florida stockbroker suspended for intimidation of Germantown company
Washington-based NASD, a regulatory agency for the securities industry, said it suspended former stockbroker Shawn Aaron for two years and fined him $50,000 for intimidating Optelecom-NKF Inc., of Germantown, a manufacturer of telecommunications products, by threatening in April 2004 to drive its stock price down from $13 to $6 per...
Tags: FINANCE, Investment, NASD, NETWORKING, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Telephony
Research articles 2006-04-19
Letter To Stockbroker Instructing To Buy Or Sell
This letter authorizes a stockbroker to buy or sell stock on your behalf. Given the frenetic nature of the market, a letter should only be used to buy or sell stock that is not particularly volatile.
Tags: Stock, Letter, Best Sample Letters, Investment, Finance
Tools & templates 2008-01-01
Former Secaucus, N.J., Stockbroker Suspended.
By Kathleen Lynn, The Record, Hackensack, N.J. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 18--A former stockbroker from Secaucus was fined $5,000 and suspended from the securities industry for two months for persuading a customer to invest his entire $208,895 portfolio in a single...
Tags: FINANCE, Investment, NASD, stock
Research articles 2001-11-18
Rivkin faces a few adjustments.
May 04, 2003 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) Australian stockbroker Rene Rivkin is facing a prison sentence after being found guilty of insider trading. Rivkin used insider market information to make a profit on the sale of Qantas Airways shares. The ...
Tags: adjustment, CAREER, Qantas Airways Ltd.
Research articles 2003-05-04
Some Investors Find Fault with Brokerages' `Advisers'.
By Kathy Bergen, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 27--Anyone worked with a stockbroker lately? Not someone whose calling card reads "financial adviser" or "financial consultant," but someone who identifies himself as a stockbroker, plain and simple? Chances are that...
Tags: brokerage, FINANCE, financial, investor, Prudential Insurance Company of America, tax
Research articles 2001-07-27
Wingate resigns from stockbroker job
Colorado Springs Councilman Charles Wingate resigned from his job as a stockbroker Monday, saying he does not have time for both jobs. Wingate was hired at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter shortly after his election in April. He was recently investigated by council because ...
Tags: council, job, Morgan Stanley, SALES
Research articles 2001-08-14
ShareLink up on `discussions'
BY JOHN WILLCOCK Financial Corrrespondent Shares in Britain's biggest telephone-based stockbroker, ShareLink Investment Services, rose 14 per cent to 204p yesterday as it revealed it was in preliminary talks with a bidder. ShareLink's founder, David Jones, refused to say who was in the frame....
Tags: analyst, equity, Fidelity Investments, FINANCE, Investment, Mr.
Research articles 1995-03-28