India is one of the world's largest importers of crude oil and its derivatives.
The wild price movements mentioned above are part of a common dynamic in commodity markets, particularly crude oil and its derivatives.
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As Jeffrey Li, the head of Novartis's Chinese operation, points out, there is also a shortage of facilities that can produce high quality artemisinin and its derivatives.
The problem, says Yan Xiaohua, the president of Guilin Pharmaceuticals, one of China's leading producers of artemisinin and its derivatives, is not that there are too few plants, but that the price of leaves has shot through the roof.
The 863 program and its institutional derivatives not only sponsored actual research, they also promoted the acquisition of advanced technologies from other countries legally or illegally.
Oil and its liquid derivatives will remain fairly high priced, but natural gas will continue to cheapen, increasing the spread between the two fuels to unpr ecedented levels.
Then it was famous for its brains, its risk-taking, its focus on derivatives, and its aggressive, sales-driven culture.
The reason is simple, commercial aerospace and its varied industrial infrastructure and energy derivatives personify global growth.
Goldman has come under heavy fire for originating and selling tens of billions of dollars of mortgage-backed securities and derivatives to its clients--including pension funds, mutual funds, and insurance companies--and then at times shorting them.
The company's reputation also has been damaged by numerous investigations into its role in the crisis, particularly its dealings in the mortgage and derivatives markets, and its sometimes-ham-handed handling of those issues.
In February this year, financial authorities banned Deutsche Bank's Korean unit from trading shares and derivatives for its own account for six months starting from April.
In theory this was a good bet: The house could reap a tempting spread between the yield on the derivatives and its own cost of borrowing.
In 2002, when India lifted a 33-year ban on commodity derivatives and its government invited bids to set up national commodities exchanges, as many as 16 bidders lined up.
With roughly 33% of the total volume in U.S. equities, and 2, 500 employees, Nasdaq OMX is rushing to push more stock trades as well as futures, options and other derivatives onto its superfast, supercheap servers before competitors like NYSE Euronext catch up.
Just read a scathing, well-written indictment of the current state of Goldman Sachs, an op-ed in the NYT by Greg Smith, an executive director of the firm, and head of its United States equity derivatives business in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
AIG, for example, owned a tiny thrift which meant that the parent and the unit that produced its derivatives book were overseen by the Office of Thrift Supervision.
The plan is to grow the Alfa Romeo and Maserati brands globally and flesh out the Jeep lineup, including the addition of a new small SUV, while limiting the Fiat brand to derivatives of its 500 and Panda small cars and scaling back its struggling Lancia brand.
Duffy and Donohue wanted its business, and so did Eurex of Frankfurt, the world's largest derivatives exchange, which set up a U.S. unit in the Sears Tower between Chicago's two exchanges.
The announcement capped days of speculation about O'Neal's future as chief executive of Merrill , which is reeling from its outsized exposure to credit derivatives and subprime debt.
The announcement capped days of speculation about O'Neal's future as chief executive of Merrill (nyse: MER - news - people ), which is reeling from its outsized exposure to credit derivatives and subprime debt.
It would like, for example, to attract more members to its Xetra trading platform, and to the Eurex derivatives market, which it owns jointly with the Swiss stock exchange.
Mr Newman tried to clean up the bank, to curb its risk-taking culture and to wean it off derivatives.
Chicago's other great claim to global-city fame rests on the dominance of its exchanges in the world trading of futures and derivatives.
In QE1, the Fed purchased non-traditional assets for its portfolio, including mortgage backed securities (MBS) and derivatives.
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Europe's first 'Tobin tax', named after economist James Tobin who mooted a global tax on currency trades in the 1970s, levies 0.1 per cent on stock and bond trades and 0.01 per cent on derivatives transactions involving one financial institution with its headquarters in the tax area, or trading on behalf of a client based in the tax area.
The SEC hopes to finish its review by the end of summer and says its goal is to craft a policy that will permit ETFs only limited use of derivatives.
It also beat its peers in derivatives exposures, trading assets, cross-border risk, liquidity and market risk.
The global head of equity and derivatives for BNP Paribas, Yann Gerardin, told Forbes.com on Wednesday that its latest acquisition--Bank of America's equity prime brokerage unit--would give the bank an attractive springboard into the lucrative American market.
Greece has cleared another hurdle as it struggles to avoid default, going through with its highly controversial debt restructuring (dubbed PSI), and effectively forcing the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) to rule, along with credit rating agencies, that the Hellenic Republic has indeed defaulted.
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The days when any large-ish bank could set up shop, load its balance sheet with debt and become an also-ran in anything from bond underwriting to complex derivatives are over.
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