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secondary market

American  

noun

Stock Exchange.
  1. the market that exists for an issue after large blocks of shares have been publicly distributed.


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They lost at home to the Houston Texans, 44-22, absorbing their most lopsided loss before a half-filled SoFi Stadium, where the get-in ticket prices last week dipped below $15 on the secondary market.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2026

The cheapest tickets on the secondary market cost nearly $3,000.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

Shares of CoreWeave tumbled more than 15% while some of the bonds it issued earlier this year dropped to fresh lows in the secondary market, underscoring investor concerns about its credit quality.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

Their figure is derived from mortgage applications submitted to the enterprise, which packages and resells the loans on the secondary market.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026

Nigeria is known to have re-purchased, at heavily discounted prices, large chunks of its $2.2 billion debt to Russia in the secondary market through British and American intermediaries.

From Russian Roulette: Russia's Economy in Putin's Era by Samuel Vaknin

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