The decimalization of British currency.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Prior to decimalization, this was relatively easy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fast, Loose, and Out of Control] Reference

It remained so until decimalization on 15 February 1971.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-02-10] Reference

Before decimalization, the tightest spread was often still 12.5 cents.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fast, Loose, and Out of Control] Reference

Over the wails of Wall Street firms, the SEC ordered exchanges to switch to decimalization in 2000 and 2001.    From Wordnik.com.  [Will Regulation Really Hurt the Market?] Reference

It is undated and unpriced – the latter information would have let us know whether it was before or after decimalization.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-02-01] Reference

In 2000 and 2001, the SEC ordered exchanges to switch from the archaic method of pricing stocks in eighths, to decimalization, or prices in pennies.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Cop on the Beat] Reference

Later governments do not insist on decimalization and further decrees are issued in 1882 by President Manuel González and 1896 by President Porfirio Díaz.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mexico this month - March] Reference

Well the older ones among you will remember the pre decimalization notation of £, s, d where the ‘d’ stood for denarius or penny from the Roman period.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sgarabhaigh Silver Sixpence : Coin Collecting News] Reference

By the late 1990s, most stock markets had gone digital, and decimalization — stocks priced and moving in increments of a penny — was becoming the standard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Will Regulation Really Hurt the Market?] Reference

As this 2003 paper suggests: "Quoted spreads decreased substantially after decimalization, on both markets, and for stocks in all market capitalization groups.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Will Regulation Really Hurt the Market?] Reference

Others suggest the best way to stabilize markets is to give trading firms more incentives to register, especially as decimalization has chipped away at market-making profits.    From Wordnik.com.  [Keeping Traders in the Market Could Prove Challenging] Reference

But the combination of decimalization and the advent of new electronic exchanges where buyers and sellers could meet one another directly made life difficult for market makers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fast, Loose, and Out of Control] Reference

It is a denomination of coinage first introduced in 1551 and was minted up to 1967 with its final demise being part of the decimalization of currency in the United Kingdom in 1971.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sgarabhaigh Silver Sixpence : Coin Collecting News] Reference

That was no mere "cosmological window-dressing," even though the decimalization of angular units failed to take hold, largely because of the difficulty of applying it to timekeeping.    From Wordnik.com.  ['The Scientific Takeover'] Reference

The simpler alternative, defining the meter as the length of a pendulum beating seconds at the 45th parallel, would have permitted decimalization, and such a unit would also have qualified as natural.    From Wordnik.com.  ['The Scientific Takeover'] Reference

The ranks of exchanges 'official market makers in recent years have thinned, especially since the 2001 switch to decimalization, namely pricing stocks in dollars and cents rather than dollars and fractions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Keeping Traders in the Market Could Prove Challenging] Reference

Significant market structure changes i.e. decimalization; and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Analytical Toolbox: Trading 2011Ready, Aim, Fire - Yahoo! Finance] Reference

This is why many people believe decimalization has encouraged trading.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forbes.com: News] Reference

He also ran market-data processing, overseeing their decimalization conversion efforts in 2001.    From Wordnik.com.  [PR.com Press Releases] Reference

Jeff Rubin might disagree with this, but decimalization has made it cheaper for traders to trade.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forbes.com: News] Reference

Then came twin calamities: decimalization, which further sliced spreads, and the bursting of the tech bubble.    From Wordnik.com.  [InvestmentNews.com Latest Headlines] Reference

"It's very hard to enforce this rule with exchanges all over the world and decimalization having Balkanized the markets," he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [InvestmentNews.com Latest Headlines] Reference

All of this is very well, but decimalization has also brought us quite a few unexpected surprises, like the repeal of the Uptick Rule.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forbes.com: News] Reference

With algorithmic trading, decimalization of stock quotes and other factors, trading volume and frequency has increased by many folds today.    From Wordnik.com.  [Database Journal News] Reference

In fact the General Accounting Office noted that trading costs are up, post-decimalization, as much as six to seven basis points per trade.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forbes.com: News] Reference

It's all an unintended consequence of the decimalization of stock prices and the high frequency trading that's reduced spreads to razor thin levels.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forbes.com: News] Reference

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There are a lot more price changes that occur to get the same order size completed than prior to decimalization and hence more volatility and increased trading costs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forbes.com: News] Reference

Another consequence of decimalization is that stocks are less liquid, says Jeffrey Rubin, a member of the Forbes. com Investor Team and the head of research at Birinyi Associates.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forbes.com: News] Reference

Big change from when we had a floor based system to a digital decimalization system, and we have to look at these things, systemic, at the whole system, in terms of those kinds of things.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forbes.com: News] Reference

"not in my vocabulary" - words that were echoed by his drug czar in Fresno - but has never denounced his stated support of decimalization.    From Wordnik.com.  [WHAT REALLY HAPPENED] Reference

Blame decimalization for the bear market.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forbes.com: News] Reference

Move to decimalization in the stock market.    From Wordnik.com.  [Business and financial news - CNNMoney.com] Reference