Several nonprofit institutions will be showing and selling works, too.
In such cases, big institutions will sell the contracts and buy the stocks.
As of January 1, 2012, financial institutions no longer sell paper savings bonds.
As the market began to fall, some institutions sold index futures rather than stock.
Many art museums and other institutions regularly sell works to buy others, often with little or no public attention.
In addition, institutions may not sell their purchases for 10 years.
In some cases, he said, the institutions sold the properties for less money than they were owed.
His institution has sold the concept to several other European nations.
By contrast, American financial institutions and individual investors sold more shares than they bought.
In many cases, institutions are selling to pay for an acquisition.