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- noun Alternative spelling of
front running .
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Examples
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Consob, the Italian regulator, fined Mr Rambourg for "frontrunning" - taking a position after receiving information before it is made public - a broker note on Italian bank Italease in 2006.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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(This is frontrunning, which is illegal; but it is a lot bigger than garden variety frontrunning, because the program traders are not only trading based on inside knowledge of what their own clients are doing, they are also trading based on knowledge of what all other traders are doing).
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Well, we knew things had evolved in Virginia, state of my forebears, when in November 2006 Jim Webb ousted George Allen from the Senate and crushed in its infancy Allen's "frontrunning" 2008 presidential campaign.
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“Cheering a winner” aka frontrunning, also okay as long as it’s his team.
Why Every American Jew Should Love the Boston Red Sox and Hate the New York Yankees | Jewschool 2007
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Ron called it "frontrunning" because they stole the initial offer from the seller.
BiggerPockets Forums lilychen 2010
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The giants (especially Goldman Sachs) have also used high-frequency program trading which not only frontrunning, which is illegal; but it is a lot bigger than garden variety frontrunning, because the program traders are not only trading based on inside knowledge of what their own clients are doing, they are also trading based on knowledge of what all other traders are doing). admitted that its proprietary trading program can "manipulate the markets in unfair ways".
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2010
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I hate to sound like I'm frontrunning, but my vote goes to Michigan as well.
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Jumping to a more successful team, we're taught, is treacherous, and frontrunning short circuits our ability to "appreciate" the march to the championship -- from which we receive no benefit.
Jordan Zakarin: I Quit: A Jets Fan's Lament Jordan Zakarin 2011
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Jumping to a more successful team, we're taught, is treacherous, and frontrunning short circuits our ability to "appreciate" the march to the championship -- from which we receive no benefit.
Jordan Zakarin: I Quit: A Jets Fan's Lament Jordan Zakarin 2011
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I hate to sound like I'm frontrunning, but my vote goes to Michigan as well.
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