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analyst definition - finance
An employee of a sell-side firm (a Wall Street broker), a buy-side firm (a mutual fund or investment management company), or an independent research firm that makes buy and sell recommendations on companies in a particular industry. Analysts also are employed by companies involved in commodities trading to recommend when customers should buy and sell futures contracts and suggest appropriate trading strategies.

Webster's New World Finance and Investment Dictionary Copyright © 2003 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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