Securities transactions take place across various market tiers and execution capacities. Which of the following statements regarding trading venues and execution roles are correct?
- The Third Market refers to over-the-counter (OTC) trading of securities that are listed on a primary stock exchange.Cevap
- When a broker-dealer fills a customer buy order directly from its own firm inventory, it acts in a principal capacity and charges a mark-up.Cevap
- CWhen an issuing corporation sells a new offering of securities to the public to raise growth capital, the transaction takes place in the secondary market.
- DA broker-dealer acting as an agent in a transaction buys securities from inventory and receives a mark-up rather than a commission.
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The correct statements are that the Third Market involves over-the-counter trading of exchange-listed securities, and that a broker-dealer executing customer orders from its own inventory acts as a principal charging a mark-up or mark-down.
The Third Market refers specifically to off-floor over-the-counter trading of exchange-listed securities. Furthermore, when a firm acts as a dealer (principal capacity), it buys and sells securities for its own inventory account and charges a mark-up when selling to a customer or a mark-down when buying from a customer.
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Third Market OTC trading of listed securities and Broker-Dealer principal versus agent execution roles.