IIROC backs away from odd lot trades
The regulator is discontinuing its former practice of cancelling or varying certain odd lot trades
- By: James Langton
- December 11, 2013 December 19, 2017
- 08:00
The regulator is discontinuing its former practice of cancelling or varying certain odd lot trades
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