| 单词 | turn of the market |
| 释义 | > as lemmasturn of the market g. turn of the market. extracted from turnn.ΚΠ 1761 T. Mortimer Every Man his own Broker iv. 106 When by this means you have found a seller, you will still be frequently obliged to give the turn of the market; that is, if it is a doubt whether the market-price is exactly that which he asks, or rather inclined to fall 1/ 8 beneath it, you must give the turn of the scale to get your business done. 1795 C. Hales Bank Mirror 17 The stock is bought..and the Broker who has bought, or the Broker who has sold, puts perhaps what is called a turn into his pocket (turn of the market) that is, an eighth, which the simple principal knows nothing of. 1882 R. Bithell Counting-house Dict. Turn of the Market. The ‘turn of the market’, or the ‘jobbers' turn’, is the difference between the two prices quoted in the official lists for stocks, shares, &c...Consols are quoted 993/ 4 to 7/ 8, and it means that the jobber, when asked the price of Consols at that moment, was prepared to give 993/ 4 for them, or to sell them at 997/ 8. The difference between the two is the compensation to the jobber. (b) Business. A (favourable or unfavourable) change in market conditions. ΚΠ 1791 C. Hamilton tr. Hedàya IV. xliv. 115 The usual practice of merchants in keeping up their commodities, and watching the turns of the market, in order to sell to the greatest advantage. 1852 J. Caird Eng. Agric. 1850–51 xxxv. 300 The advantage of being able to thrash any quantity to meet a favourable turn of the market. 2013 R. D. Edwards et al. Techn. Anal. Stock Trends (ed. 10) xlii. 499 There was one period of 10 months between the actual turn of the market and the Dow Signal for a Reversal of the Primary Trend. < as lemmas |
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