Desautels says his Apple bug bounty is still around 15% less than he would pay for the equivalent PC-focused flaw, given that high-volume cybercrime is still much more common than targeted espionage.

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Traders are also doing 7% of their volume in "dark pools, " the electronic equivalent of a back alley where buyers and sellers transact anonymously, according to Tabb Group, a Westborough, Mass. market researcher.

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And although they cannot compete with aeroplanes for speed, or with water-borne shipping for volume, they could cover in a few days a distance equivalent to a six-week journey by ship.

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India volume is seen rising by 3.1% to 1.46 billion tons of oil equivalent.

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The United Downs tip is 15m (49ft) deep and has a volume of 250, 000 cubic metres (8.8m cubic ft) - the equivalent of 125 Olympic-sized swimming pools - but the council predicts it will be full by 2010.

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Dean Curnutt at Macro Risk Advisors figures that in early March the Credit Suisse fund had to trade the equivalent of 3, 300 VIX futures contracts daily, or about 4% of the entire day's volume.

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