http://www.americansharemarket.com/ Organized marketplace in which share, common share equivalents, and bonds are traded by members of the exchange, acting both as agents (brokers) and as principals (dealers or traders). Such exchanges have a physical location where brokers and dealers meet to execute orders from institutional and individual investors to buy and sell securities. Tue Jan 2009 AmericanShareMarket RSS NEWS - http://www.americansharemarket.com http://www.americansharemarket.com/read_new2641.html SLM, the parent of Sallie Mae, which for years profited from placing large bets on its own stock going up, now faces a possible loss of more than $1 billion.... Sun Jun 2008