Stockjobber in older documents often also just Jobber (so also said in German, but with different meanings)
Market participants who have turned solely to contracts for differences on the stock exchange. – On the London Stock Exchange, the term for – floor traders as well as – for all brokers who act as wholesalers, as it were, i.e. do not transact business with the public. – The word Stockjobber was given a strongly negative connotation in German by the socialistic accusatory writings, especially by Karl Marx (1818-1883), but also by celebrated German literati (highly acclaimed and celebrated literati) such as Heinrich Heine (1797-1856): Stockjobber = usurer, profiteer, swindler, “exploiter.” – See agiotage, stock jobber, commercials, money sucker, capitalist, coupon cutter, scenery, lug-and-deception thesis, misochrematie, profit, speculation.
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