What is a bucket shop?

A bucket shop is a brokerage firm that engages in unethical business practices. Historically, they would facilitate gambling on stock prices, often encouraging their clients to use dangerous levels of leverage. Today, bucket shops are associated with so-called bucketing transactions, which involves illegally profiting from clients' trades.

What is a bucket shop in 1892?

A scene from a bucket shop in 1892. A bucket shop is a business that allows gambling based on the prices of stocks or commodities.

Is a bucket shop a multinational?

It is not a bucket shop and it is not a multinational. They fly from the airport that is nominated by the travel agent or bucket shop. Some bucket shop operators will deliberately exploit that loophole and will make it part of their company policy. But these are the stock-in-trade of the bucket shop operator, and have been from time immemorial.

Will university places be advertised through a bucket shop?

University places will be offered through bucket shops and will be advertised on teletext with other cut-price offers. The bucket shop end of the market will advertise, while the responsible end will not. We are not talking about a bucket shop company.