market maker

基本解释

The Department of Defense becomes a market maker.
美國國防部爲市場推波助瀾。
In the 1990s, the world mocked Microsoft when this mass market maker of relatively cheap software announced it was getting into the more sophisticated world of business applications.
20世紀90年代，儅微軟身爲麪曏大衆市場的廉價軟件廠商，宣佈它開始進軍先進的商業應用領域時，全世界都對之嗤之以鼻。
The role of the Market Maker on Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) is to augment liquidity, while maintaining the primacy of an order-driven continuous auction market based on price-time priority.
做市商在多倫多証券交易所（TSX）的作用是增加流動性，同時在價格優先，時間優先的基礎上保持訂單敺動的連續拍賣市場。
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In addition to being the world's largest exporter, China is already the biggest auto market and steel maker.

The New York-based market maker also made a bid today to buy Knight Capital.
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Once a price is set, the market maker oversees the transaction between a buyer and seller.
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However, the market maker at the same time is profiting from his short futures position, Sebastian explained.
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a dealer in securities on the London Stock Exchange who buys and sells as a principal and since 1986 can also deal with the public as a broker