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main market

British  

noun

  1. the market for trading in the listed securities of companies on the London Stock Exchange Compare Third Market Unlisted Securities Market

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The FTC argues “Amazon’s punitive regime distorts basic market signals.”

From Seattle Times • Nov. 3, 2023

“It’s either straight ahead misdirection or a deep misunderstanding of basic market dynamics.”

From Washington Times • Jul. 5, 2022

He pointed to basic market principles like, "anti-fraud, anti-manipulation, making sure there's not front-running, making sure an order book is actually real and not made up."

From Reuters • May 16, 2022

To Whitman, the lack of upfront clarity on pricing was a basic market inefficiency that it could fix.

From New York Times • Mar. 18, 2022

Because it solves for a basic market failure: companies don’t invest in blue-sky projects that don’t have a guaranteed return.

From Scientific American • Apr. 7, 2020

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