stockbroker
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His father, a stockbroker, and his mother, a salesclerk, divorced when Greenspan was 3.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2026
Champions of artificial intelligence say the technology is poised to take over some of the most traditional titles in finance: stockbroker, portfolio manager, financial adviser.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 7, 2026
In the movie Wall Street, stockbroker Bud Fox told his client: “You once told me, don’t get emotional about stock, Gordon. Don’t.”
From Barron's ● Jan. 7, 2026
After working as a stockbroker on Wall Street, Stewart started a catering business, making every one of her recipes from scratch.
From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2025
In all, half of the responses that came back to the stockbroker were delivered to him by these same three people.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
When U.S. regulators in 1975 abolished fixed trading commissions—blowing up a decades-old system that had shielded stockbrokers from competition—Schwab started one of the first discount brokerages.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
“The Forsytes” is inspired by Galsworthy’s family of extremely wealthy stockbrokers in late-Victorian London, an age in which nobility’s influence and social dominance receded with the rise of new money.
From Salon ● Mar. 28, 2026
It was in that same spirit that 24 stockbrokers got together on Wall Street in 1792 to sign the Buttonwood Agreement External link, starting what would become the New York Stock Exchange.
From Barron's ● Jan. 13, 2026
Sophie Lund-Yates, lead equity analyst at stockbrokers Hargreaves Lansdown, said Diageo has impenetrable brand power but that Friday’s warning may stoke concerns that a “change in appetites could translate to other, larger markets.”
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 10, 2023
With 2,300 journalists around the world, in 197 bureaus, serving a market including investment bankers, derivatives traders, stockbrokers, newspapers, radio, television, and Internet outlets, Reuters has always had a very complex audience to satisfy.
From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman
