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-- Choose word or phrase -- American Depositary Receipts (ADRs) American Depositary Shares (ADSs) American Depositary Warrants (ADWs) American Stock Exchange (Amex) Beneficial Owner Bifurcated GDR Blue Sky Securities Laws Cede &Co. Convertible Security Clearstream CUSIP Number Custodian Debenture Depositary Depositary Receipt (DR) Depositary Share (DS) Depository Trust &Clearing Corporation (DTCC) Depository Trust Company (DTC) DTC/Euroclear/Clearstream Bridge Dividend Reinvestment Plan (DRIP) Embedded Restricted Securities (ERS) Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) Euroclear Euroclear/Clearstream Bridge Exchange Agent Exchangeable Bonds or Notes Flowback Global Depositary Receipts (GDRs) Institutional Investor International Security Identification Number (ISIN) Issuer Listed Securities Listing Agent Market Makers N Shares National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation System (NASDAQ) NASDAQ National Market System (NMS) New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) New York Registry Shares (NYRSs) Nominee OTC Bulletin Board Over-the-Counter (OTC)Market Pink Sheets PORTAL Private Placements Proxy Qualified Institutional Buyers (QIBs) Ratio Registered Owner Regulation Fair Disclosure (Reg FD) Regulation S (Reg S) Restricted Securities Rule 144A Rule 144A DRs (RADRs) Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 Secondary Market Securities Act of 1933 Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Securities Exchange Act of 1934 Side-by-Side Facilities Specialist Sponsored DR Stock Unitary GDR Structure Unsponsored ADR Program