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What is a Delayed Opening? When a publicly traded company makes an announcement or if a news item concerning the company comes out after market close or before market opening times, it is not uncommon for trading of the stock the next trading day to be delayed. This is for the traders and general public to absorb and assess the news, and the exchange assists in trying to give market makers or specialists a chance to prepare for the presumed flood of buy and sell orders beyond normal trading activity.

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Finance allah shmoop What is a delayed opening old man

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fitting geese at the park Yeah That's what i am

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it's What I d'oh every morning Nine Thirty a M

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sharp Yeah Okay Here you go Everything you already cash

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but uh oh here's a problem what's wrong with this

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guy who he's delayed and there it is Ding ding

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ding opening bell Okay everyone sapo supposed to be eating

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now Well yeah they do that to goes with the

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territory but this one's delayed let's See what's going on

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here who looks like this bird's going miss its earnings

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number now the company was supposed to divulge all the

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information but it looks like they left out one little

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key Important fact the ceo is resigning Ouch Yeah that

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smarts So the stock closed yesterday at forty two And

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it's indicated at like thirty bucks a share here And

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all the geese are scrambling to create what's called an

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orderly market roughly matched or even sets of buyers and

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sellers all coming together to transact Unfortunately there were so

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many sellers The g's just couldn't keep things in order

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So things air delayed So there are a whole gaggle

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Of reasons a stock openings can be delayed in real

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life Key nuggets of information not fully globally digested yet

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like you know that little thing about the ceo resigning

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and that's a good one How about the government indicting

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the company for fraud Yeah that's Another good one Or

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what about the company Pre announcing that they're going to

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miss earnings by fourteen dollars a share A big power

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outage on the east coast Yeah that could do it

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too well Some computer malware sent by our kindly loving

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trading partners overseas you betcha Well openings get delayed for

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good reason Because if all of the information isn't fairly

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disseminated well ah whole lot of people who should be

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selling their shares at thirty eight thirty two a share

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ended up selling him for twenty two bucks and will

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have been financially you know damaged The whole notion of

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a fair and orderly market is arguably the single best

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thing about the way capital markets work in america versus

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almost anywhere else in the world Like we trust our

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system mostly the day the country loses its trust from

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the people who participate in the investing community Well that's

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pretty much the end of everything we know in a

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capitalist society is that right comrades and getting go quack

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