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Dictionary: ghost·ing   ('stĭng) pronunciation

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The appearance of one or more false images on a television screen.


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Computer Desktop Encyclopedia:

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A server that contains a group of programs to be duplicated verbatim onto other PCs. It typically contains the operating system and a selected set of applications that are preconfigured. See cloning software.

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Investment Dictionary:

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An illegal practice whereby two or more market makers collectively attempt to influence and change the price of a stock. Ghosting is used by corrupt companies to affect stock prices so they can profit from the price movement.

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This practice is illegal because market makers are required by law to act in competition with each other. It is known as "ghosting" because, like a spectral image or a ghost, this collusion among market makers is difficult to detect. In developed markets, the consequences of ghosting can be severe.

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Illegal manipulation of a company's stock price by two or more market makers. One firm will push a stock's price higher or lower, and the other firms will follow their lead in collusion to drive the stock's price up or down. The practice is called ghosting because the investing public is unaware of this coordinated activity among market makers who are supposed to be competing with each other.

Wikipedia:

Ghosting

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Ghosting may refer to:

  • ghosting (identity theft), a form of identity theft, where by a person takes on the identity of a deceased person.
  • ghosting (television), a double image when receiving a distorted or multipath input signal in analog television broadcasting.
  • motion blur, "ghosting" is a term often used when slow response time digital televisions or digital monitors have motion blur during fast motion.

 
 

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