In 1701, Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac founded a trading post at Fort Pontchartrain, which later became the city of Detroit.
The nearest town is Eden, a tiny community of ranchers and farmers with a trading post, a Mexican restaurant and zero stoplights.
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They provide unique insights into Timbuktu's emergence as a trading post, and by the 1500s, as a famous university town, full of students and scribes.
Dating back almost 2, 000 years, the city itself served as a trading post junction for the spice and silk routes throughout the Middle and Far East.
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Pierre Brazza's rival, the British explorer Henry Morton Stanley, mythologised through his search for Livingstone, reached the far shore, establishing a trading post that was to become the town of Leopoldville.
The town of Bor, half an hour by plane down the Nile from Juba, was once a busy trading post but now feels on a different planet.
Welcome to the main stage of Moroccan halqa (street theatre), where the show has continued since Marrakesh was a medieval trading post, and public executions earned the Djemaa el-Fna the title Assembly of the Dead.
Trade Exchange's EBOT would be a competitor to this CME trading post in certain products.
Shares in the footwear and apparel company took a tumble in post market trading on Thursday.
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Much of the weakness occurred in after-hours trading late Tuesday following a post-meeting statement from the Federal Open Market Committee.
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The prospect, therefore, after some tortuous post-election horse-trading, is for a fragile coalition, with its many components pulling in different directions.
Germany's four big power producers have undertaken to post weekly production figures on the website of a second carbon-trading exchange, the European Energy Exchange in Leipzig.
Then yen dropped 4.7% to 79.39 against the dollar by 3:00 p.m. in Tokyo, after hitting a post-World War II high of 75.31 in early trading, according to a Bloomberg report.
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Technology bellwether Cisco Systems ( CSCO) will step into the earnings limelight after the close of trading this afternoon, with Wall Street expecting the company to post a second-quarter profit of 43 cents per share.
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In an SEC filing after the close of trading Tuesday, Facebook announced that it will accelerate the expiration of a post-IPO lockup on employee holdings and said that Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has no plan to sell any of his holdings for at least 12 months.
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Post-Cold War South Korea is no longer a hostile country but an important trading partner.
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Steve Cohen, the hedge fund titan who is dealing with the uncertainty of a government insider-trading investigation swirling around his firm, SAC Capital Advisors, has continued to post solid returns despite all the controversy.
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These post-FOMC lows have held through September 9 in volatile back and forth trading making a buy and trade strategy even more appropriate.
Seth Setrakian, co-head of U.S. equities at proprietary trading firm First New York Securities, said his expectation was for a Romney rally or an Obama drop post-election in an interview Monday, but warned that such a move would be short-term oriented.
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