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Stocks trade mixed as European debt woes remain - Tacoma News Tribune
A battered stock market recovered ... will have trouble getting their massive deficits under control. The Labor Department, meanwhile, offered only modest hope of improvement in the jobs market in its closely watched monthly report. Stocks set to ...

CORRECTED - UPDATE 1-Nasdaq OMX profit up 23 percent, beats Street - Reuters
* Revenue slips 8 percent to $369 million. NEW YORK, Feb 8 (Reuters) - Nasdaq OMX Group Inc ( NDAQ.O ) reported a 23 percent rise in quarterly profit even as the U.S.-based exchange operator suffered from sluggish trading and eroding market share ...

Stock futures narrowly mixed ahead of market open - USA Today
Ahead of the opening bell, Dow Jones industrial average futures fell 2, or less than 0.1%, to 9,939. Standard & Poor's 500 index futures rose 0.80, or 0.1%, to 1,060.60, while Nasdaq 100 index futures rose 0.75, or less than 0.1%, to 1,745.75.

U.S. stocks attempt late-session turn higher - Yahoo Finance
Stocks came off their lows as the price of crude oil rose in electronic trading, said Art Hogan, chief market strategist at Jefferies & Co. "The sovereign debt story will play out for a long time, but the U.S. market has over-reacted, and is now back ...

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Participants in the stock market range from small individual stock investors to large hedge fund traders, who can be based anywhere. Their orders usually end up with a professional at a stock exchange, who executes the order.

Some exchanges are physical locations where transactions are carried out on a trading floor, by a method known as open outcry. This type of auction is used in stock exchanges and commodity exchanges where traders may enter "verbal" bids and offers simultaneously. The other type of stock exchange is a virtual kind, composed of a network of computers where trades are made electronically via traders.

Actual trades are based on an auction market paradigm where a potential buyer bids a specific price for a stock and a potential seller asks a specific price for the stock. (Buying or selling at market means you will accept any ask price or bid price for the stock, respectively.) When the bid and ask prices match, a sale takes place on a first come first served basis if there are multiple bidders or askers at a given price.

The purpose of a stock exchange is to facilitate the exchange of securities between buyers and sellers, thus providing a marketplace (virtual or real). The exchanges provide real-time trading information on the listed securities, facilitating price discovery.[source:Wikipedia]

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