The index is proportionally weighted based on foreign-exchange trading volume data from the Bank for International Settlements' triennial central-bank survey on global foreign-exchange market activity.
The futures exchange views both types of activity the same, they do not care who is buying what for what reason or if the prices are going up or down, they make money either way.
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It is worth putting up with some, in exchange for the benefits of economic activity.
For another, despite brisk activity in derivatives, foreign exchange and convertible bonds, banks' mainstay businesses have suffered badly.
Securities and Exchange Commission officials are looking into trading activity that took place in response to the AP tweet, according to a spokesman, who said the agency routinely looks into irregular market action.
Normally, traders work for an hour or more after the exchange's closing to process transactions, but activity had stopped dead.
Their most publicised activities, such as using derivatives to speculate heavily on interest-rate or exchange-rate movements, are hardly the kind of activity that will endear them to politicians.
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Or to put it another way, the vast majority of foreign exchange trading was supporting market speculation, not genuine wealth-creating activity by businesses.
The data encompasses both the futures and options activity combined at the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange and the Nymex.
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Eventually Kotler came to see marketing as being about the exchange of values between two parties and, as such, a social activity, not just a business one.
The data is for the trade date ended Nov. 22 and encompasses both the futures and options activity combined at the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange.
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The data is for the trade date ended Nov. 1 and encompasses both the futures and options activity combined at the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange.
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The data is for the trade date ended Jan. 31 and encompasses both the futures and options activity combined at the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange.
The data is for the trade date ended March 13 and encompasses both the futures and options activity combined at the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange.
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The data is for the trade date ended July 12 and encompasses both the futures and options activity combined at the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange.
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The data is for the trade date ended Sept. 6 and encompasses both the futures and options activity combined at the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange.
The data is for the trade week ended Oct. 23 and encompasses both the futures and options activity combined at the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission wants to create a central database of real-time trading activity, another in a string of proposals it has made in the last few weeks in response to concerns that the stock markets are broken.
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In the aftermath of the "Flash Crash, " the Nasdaq canceled trades on a number of stocks that saw particularly abnormal activity, including Boston Beer Company, the First Trust ISE Revere Natural Gas exchange-traded fund and the Templeton Emerging Markets Income Fund.
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In the case of the most-active copper contract traded on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange, Tuesday was the first rise in nine trading sessions, although volume was small with electronic activity only as trading floors remained closed due to Hurricane Sandy.
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According to court records filed in the latest case, in 2005 and 2006 Mr Vance and Mr Ertel were working in Iraq for Shield Group Security, a privately-held security company, when they became suspicious the company was making improper payments to Iraqi officials in exchange for influence, and that its employees were engaged in illicit weapons-trafficking and other illegal activity.
The requirement for on-exchange trading is important for a number of reasons, including that it enables the CFTC to police market activity and protect market integrity.
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In a statement Thursday evening, the Securities and Exchange Commission and Commodity Futures Trading Commission said they are working with other regulators and the exchanges to review unusual trading activity during the afternoon.
Mobile users accounted for one-fifth of Trulia's total user activity in 2012's first half, and the company stated in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that it will need to convert the popularity of the mobile platform into revenue.
After significantly building up their net-long positions in gold futures and options contracts on Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange in the past three weeks, speculators completely eliminated those recently established long positions in the latest count of speculative activity from Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
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