The stock market provided more buyers, but sellers were scarce.

"I can provide buyers with the best of two worlds," he said.

And the economy must grow robustly enough to provide buyers.

- Real estate offices in California provide potential buyers with instantaneous information about available housing, financial terms, ownership history.

The concern is that, in a business that's essentially flat, can Starbucks provide additional buyers?

Mortgage programs designed to provide buyers in certain neighborhoods with 100 percent financing are available.

Internet shopping, however, provides both buyers and sellers with capabilities that other media do not.

"It provides buyers with insurance against another downturn."

IDBs provide potential buyers and sellers with the critical market information they need to trade.

For others, records are often sketchy if not nonexistent, making it difficult to provide potential buyers with economic data.