The U.S. signed five separate trade contracts with China on Monday, Xinhua reported.
They agreed to negotiate new inter-republic trade contracts, but assured the Baltic republics that their supplies would not be cut off this year in retaliation for independence.
It was largely the function of now-obsolete trade union contracts and corporate structure.
It seems unlikely that such a small tail could wag such a large dog, especially given that investors almost exclusively trade futures contracts.
If your stake in one foreign currency is large enough (close to six figures), you could trade currency contracts on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.
Its 6, 739 members own or lease seats that give them the right to trade futures contracts and options on futures contracts ( Click here or definitions).
Its 6, 739 members own or lease seats that give them the right to trade futures contracts and options on futures contracts (for definitions, see box, p. 68).
Note that this is the same government that put a spike in what would have actually been a serious step toward improved security: a policy analysis market that would have allowed people to trade terrorism contracts.
On the put side, the December 16 strike has seen volume of 5, 633 contracts trade on open interest of 16, 719 contracts.
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According to Bloomberg, Brent was in contango on Tuesday, which means longer-term contracts trade at a premium over short-term contracts.
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Brent Crude even went into backwardation, a market structure in which near-term delivery contracts trade at higher prices than longer-termed contracts on fears that supply will be disrupted for an extended amount of time.
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The most active strikes on the day were the July 23 calls, which saw volume of 23, 387 contracts trade, and the July 19 put, where 22, 932 contracts crossed the tape.
Nasdaq would use Liffe's computer system - called Connect - to trade the futures contracts electronically.
So thin is trading that on some days many contracts trade as few as 20 Hedgelets or none at all.
The unit will no longer trade synthetic derivatives contracts, Dimon said in July, and refocus on conservatively managing assets for the bank.
Georgia made strides in six of 10 categories, including the time it takes to start a business, dealing with licenses, employing workers, getting credit, cross-border trade and enforcing contracts.
The number of options in play on JCP today is approaching 171, 000 contracts in afternoon trade, topping overall open interest on the stock of 160, 338 contracts.
About a hundred city-pair contracts will trade, predicts Thomas Gros, vice president of bandwidth trading for Enron.
The two countries exchanged trade delegations and signed contracts for Syrian goods under the oil-for-food deal.
Last year, two former executives were convicted of conspiring with an ex-city official to trade favors for city contracts.
Eurex coveted the Board of Trade's biggest contracts, futures on Treasury bonds, which were still rooted in its old-fashioned trading floors.
Shah says that marketing the exchange to commodity traders, training them how to trade online and designing contracts that are in synch with the traders' needs or familiarity gave MCX an edge.
It matters little if it is performance enhancing drugs to win a sporting event, inside information to put on a fast buck trade, padded Vatican contracts, or Goldman Sachs putting its own profits before those of its clients.
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Eventually, Trade Exchange sees trading contracts in a wide range of esoteric items like election outcomes or sporting events--the same sort of stuff found on the betting books at casinos like those owned by Harrah's Entertainment, MGM Mirage or Boyd Gaming.
Land-grabbers who rented government plots illegally to fly-by-night shops, taking money that belonged to the city. (Mr Hamidi would burst into such places with shovel in hand, pushing people aside, shouting at them to clear their rubbish away.) And, over all these, the swaggering local powerbrokers who demanded their share of the opium trade, the military contracts and the building projects, like boys fighting for candy at a wedding.
Labour MPs and trade unions say zero hours contracts strip workers of their rights and are exploitative.
But if it stays at the ISE, we do not charge customers anything for the contracts that they trade here.
Successive presidents or their officials have visited China, accompanied by business delegations eager to sell more to the one-billion-plus Chinese, and have tried to persuade the Chinese to sign contracts and make trade concessions.
"We are speaking to institutional traders, hedge funds and market makers in designing these contracts, " says Trade Exchange spokesman Mike Knesevitch.
For instance, research-intensive universities might benefit most from a hybrid of renewable long-term contracts and fringe benefit trade-offs, whereas it may be most efficient for teaching colleges to utilize a combination of contingent faculty and renewable contracts.
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