Abbott Laboratories (ABT), (founding name: Abbott Alkaloid Company) is a global pharmaceutical company with around 73,000 employees in 150 countries. Abbott was founded in 1888 by Wallace C. Abbott (1857-1921) and is headquartered in Abbott Park, a northern suburb of Chicago, Illinois.
A Failure to deliver also known as fails-to-deliver or FTD occurs when a buyer or seller is unable to meet his trading obligations. FTDs for US listed companies are reported to the SEC and published twice a month. Therefore there is a certain delay between the reporting and the publishing of the data.
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