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Import is defined as causing the chemical to be imported into the customs territory of the United States. If you order a covered toxic chemical (or a mixture containing the chemical) from a foreign supplier, then you have imported the chemical when that shipment arrives at your facility directly from a source outside of the United States. By ordering the chemical, you have caused it to be imported," even though you may have used an import brokerage firm as an agent to obtain the chemical. 

Users of pipeline databases include pharmaceutical and biotech companies, who assess their own position and that of their competitors by using the databases as a somrce of benchmark measmes. Brokerage firms use the databases to make informed assessments of companies in their portfolios. Academic institutions can use the databases to look for possible partners for com-poimds in their research laboratories. 

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Ashenbaum, B., Salzarulo, P., Newman, W. (2012). Organizational stracture, entrepreneurial orientation and trait preference in transportation brokerage firms. Journal of Supply Chain Management, 4S(1), 3-23. 

The chapters that follow will identify web sites for the online brokerages that generally offer exhaustive asset allocation information. But caveat emptor. They present this information because they want to move you into a sale. In this book you will see how all of the information you need to make informed decisions is not available solely via the sites of the brokerage firms. Click around to a number of sites for the best uncompromised information available. 

During the height of the Internet expansion years of 1996-2000, plenty of investment banks and brokerage firms joined the race. The titans of Wall Street, including the likes of Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley, struggled to keep pace with plucky upstarts like E Trade and Ameritrade. 

As discussed earlier, retail investors play only a small part in the market for U.S. fixed-income securities. Individual investors represent only 6 percent of the 15 trillion debt market,- the major customers are institutions, like mutual funds, asset managers, regional banks, pension funds, and other large investors. As such, large brokerage firms, while wanting to sell any product they can, do not view individuals as the big spenders—or the preferred customers. 

The larger online brokerage firms and banks now have the capability to service all facets of a client s demands, as well as to provide other goodies, such as education, news, quotes, and ongoing advice. 

Dealers, often brokerage firms with large retail investor customer bases, purchase bonds in the wholesale or institutional marketplace in bulk. Once acquired, the large bond position must be subdivided and sold to numerous investors. If not all of the bonds can be sold immediately, the broker will hold the bonds in inventory until the position is completely liquidated. The dealer can inventory the bonds anywhere from a day to a few months, and this is the reason that retail bond spreads tend to be large. There is always the risk that the broker may have to hold the bonds in inventory for an extended period of time— hence, a large spread is typically "built" into the price. 

All of the major online brokerage firms sell bonds through commingled inventory systems. The systems are provided with inventory from dozens of participating dealers, who have found that the number of different types of bonds that they can offer their customers has been enhanced and expanded. 

The Public Debt web site is the most comprehensive, efficient Treasury security investment platform available to individual investors today. 1 cannot stress the value and facility that have been created by the government with the use of this web site. Any questions or inquiries concerning any of the issues can be sent electronically and someone will get back to you promptly (they did for me). You can manage your investments neatly online, and periodically review your portfolio. Even if you already have a live broker, or an account with any of the online brokerage firms, 1 strongly urge you to open an account with the Public Debt online. You ll be glad you did. 

Just because these online brokerages are referred to as discount, that does not mean that "full-service" is unavailable through their web sites. Likewise, the firms rated on the Gomez Full-Service Scorecard usually refer to the online versions of traditional brokerage firms, such as UBS Paine Webber or Morgan Stanley. 

MuniDirect was founded in March 1999 with a fairly simple idea create the first discount brokerage firm for the municipal hond market. Since that time, we have heen both an online pioneer and a staunch consumer advocate for the individual investor. The municipal bond market is fraught with conflicts of interest and a lack of disclosure. MuniDirect has taken the conflict of interest out of... 

Don t think that because you haven t seen leading news stories for bonds in the newspaper or on TV that they aren t available for individual purchase. Don t think that brokerage firms, both online and offline, aren t willing to sell them to you. As described earlier in this book, there has been a prevailing psychology on Wall Street that bonds are "too complicated" for individual purchase— this is clearly not the case. Business journalists that cover bonds often play second fiddle to the day s top story on stocks, but this should encourage you to do your own research for bonds. 

Many people are trained to think that bonds mean "secure, safe investments" or mean "income investments." This is most likely the result of reading this year after year in brokerage firm... 

An investment representative at a brokerage firm or bank can provide more specific information about investing in bonds. There are numerous public sources of information available including major personal-finance magazines, the business page of your daily newspapers, and your local library. The... 

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