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floating stock

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noun

  1. stock not held for permanent investment and hence available for speculation; stock held by brokers and speculators rather than investors.


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The stock market plunge has also prompted some cutting back in the spending plans of small companies that had hoped to raise capital by floating stock issues.

From Time Magazine Archive

Daimler-Benz has 93% of its stock in the hands of institutions and other companies; in the past month, buyers of small amounts of floating stock propelled the price from $243 to $363 within ten days.

From Time Magazine Archive

Yet even before this fact had been clearly recognized, the railway magnates of the West had bought up all the floating stock without exception.

From Banzai! by Parabellum by Ferdinand Heinrich Grautoff

The crazy little machine which he now undertook to exploit did not interest him as a means of collecting tolls, floating stock, and paying dividends.

From The Age of Big Business; a chronicle of the captains of industry by Burton Jesse Hendrick

I'll buy all the floating stock I can pick up.

From The Hills of Refuge A Novel by Will N. (Will Nathaniel) Harben

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