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trader

[trey-der] / ˈtreɪ dər /


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At the event, her bio read: “former trader, current underemployed felon.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

Brovdi, a successful global grain trader before the war, has taken a “business-oriented approach” as he beats plowshares into swords.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

Bond yields are starting to deliver “equity-like returns,” and it’s bad news for the stock market, according to former Lehman Brothers trader Larry McDonald.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

One trader whose "heart sank" when she discovered she had lost money, said that despite spotting scams regularly, the multiple emails she exchanged were "so realistic" that she fell for one.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

I wanted to get past it because we were hoping to catch up with a certain trader and sell to him.

From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich

But oil started lower Friday morning as traders weighed reports of a potential proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz—a key energy-shipping route blocked off by the fighting.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

He even declared “I am the house now,” and challenged traders to bet against him.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

Major stock indexes also slipped, but not as far as some traders might have expected on a day when debt benchmarks that affect rates on everything from corporate bonds to mortgages soared.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

While traders say those had little impact on long-dated rates, the bigger driver for the recent calm in bonds was the Federal Reserve’s decision last week to pivot to raise interest rates to fight inflation.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

In March 2007 Hubler’s traders prepared a presentation, delivered by Hubler’s bosses to Morgan Stanley’s board of directors, that boasted of their “great structural position” in the subprime mortgage market.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis




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