This will, at the margin, trigger trade adjustments similar to the effect of a dollar decline.

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Nokia stayed on their own course, appearing to trade profit margin for market share.

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We trade the fruits of our higher margin work for oil, televisions, socks, t-shirts and everything else not in our interest to produce.

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Then any precipitating factor undermining the trade can lead to profit taking at the margin.

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The trade deficit without oil also fell at the margin.

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Traders typically put down just a small percentage of a gold contract's full value in order to trade it, and this amount, known as margin, must be increased when prices fall.

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Shope notes that the Street worries about trade offs between revenue growth and long-term gross margin strategy .

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It's a low-margin but steady business: DTCC charges six-tenths of a cent per trade to net out purchases and sales.

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Clearly, this was due to the wipe-out of speculators on margin who were not buying silver as a monetary reserve, but as a risky trade.

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The CME Group hiked margin requirements four times in two weeks in silver, mandating that people who wanted to trade it needed to post a greater amount of collateral than before.

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