Currently, the stock is traded privately through the investment bank Cazenove and the company is valued about $1.7 billion.

For years, it was traded privately until a ROM was made available to the general public.

Subsequently, 14% of the company was privately traded to Bhosle Group of Industries for an undisclosed amount of money.

Because Inner City Broadcasting is traded privately, rather than traded on a public exchange, valuing the stock could be difficult.

With the advent of the cassette and CD-R, however, some bootlegs are traded privately with no attempt to be manufactured professionally.

No doubt they are wrestling with how to provide equal access to a privately traded good that costs some parents thousands of pounds a year.

The Supreme Court ruled that many unsecured promissory notes, sold privately and not traded on any stock exchange, were subject to Federal regulation as securities.

Normally, equity interests in these firms (which include corporations, partnerships, limited-liability companies, and some other organizational forms) are traded privately, and often irregularly.

But in many small, specialized markets for swaps and other exotic, privately traded derivatives, Long-Term Capital's scale of operation had made it the dominant speculator.

Most of these securities are traded privately, with no public disclosure, and the strategies being used are closely guarded.