Doctrine Of Sovereign Immunity: Limit order to buy or to sell, or a stop limit order to sell that is not to be reduced by the amount of an ordinary cash dividend on the ex-dividend date. A 'do not reduce order' applies only to ordinary cash dividends, and not stock dividends or rights.

 

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Picked Off: Intercepted.

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