Under a trade deal with the European Union called GSP-plus, Sri Lanka's garment exports (its second-largest source of foreign exchange) enjoy duty-free access to the EU. But GSP-plus hinges partly on human rights.
We see a rising probability of pressure on the renminbi-to-the-dollar exchange rate in the second half of next year.
And the Scotland midfielder was injured in the first exchange of the second half after coming down awkwardly on his ankle.
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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.
Bretton Woods, which was set up at the end of the Second World War had fixed exchange rates which lasted until the early 1970s.
The second is to use the infrastructure of that exchange, such as a single system for paying claims, to introduce publicly-funded health care in 2017.
On Wednesday, District Attorney Sherry Caloia said Bebb-Jones had made a plea bargain, admitting murder in the second degree in exchange for a sentence of no more than 20 years.
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In a series of papers Michael Dooley, David Folkerts-Landau and Peter Garber at Deutsche Bank have argued that the present arrangements resemble a revived Bretton Woods, the system of fixed exchange rates after the second world war.
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The pair were involved in a verbal exchange during day two of the second Test in Melbourne.
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In recent days, Iceland has taken over the country's second-biggest bank, fixed the exchange rate of its plummeting currency, and asked Russia for a euro4 billion loan as it scrambled to stop the collapse of its economy.
The half ended with Juan Martin Fernandez Lobbe and Raphael Ibanez receiving yellow cards after another heated exchange, but the start of the second period was engagingly open.
High frequency traders will give their views on what happened in the markets during the May 6 crash on Tuesday afternoon during the second meeting of a joint investigative panel of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
Liz Moyer (a former Forbes Wall Street writer who now hangs her hat at the WSJ) reports that the Securities and Exchange Commission, perhaps tired of playing second fiddle to the Department of Justice in routing out crime in the financial industry, has introduced something new on their Web site: a bit of branding to showcase their work at routing out insider trading (right).
If a second-rate exchange is first to attract a critical mass of trading, even a better trading system may fail to wrest business away.
Under one type of agreement, FFIs can report FACTA data to their own governments who then exchange information with the IRS. Under the second type of agreement, FFIs must register with the IRS and report FATCA data directly.
It's not unheard of for competing car companies in the West to strike deals whereby, say, one offers to the other a license on one technology in exchange for a license to use one of the second company's technologies.
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But the legal-proceedings section of the company's second-quarter report to the Securities and Exchange Commission makes sobering reading.
The second investigation is focused on ICE Clear Europe, a division of the Atlanta based Intercontinental Exchange.
The second investigation, a joint probe with the Securities and Exchange Commission, concerns possible violations of anti-bribery laws.
This autumn it plans to become the second Japanese financial institution (after Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi) on the New York Stock Exchange.
The UBS E-TRACS CMCI Food TR exchange-traded note ( FUD) was a close second in with gains of 48.85% in the last year.
By the end of this month it hopes to complete the sale of 15% of Pekao, the country's second-largest bank, on the Warsaw stock exchange.
The filigreed ironwork of a stairway saved from Louis Sullivan's demolished Chicago Stock Exchange leads unexpectedly to the second floor.
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The second rule of swap club is that patience is required, as it can sometimes take weeks to line up an exchange.
The second and final day of the meeting coincided with International Day to End Impunity for which the International Freedom of Expression Exchange network (IFEX), launched a global campaign highlighting the extent to which crimes against journalists go unpunished.
On the second floor, downstairs from the Center for Arab Studies and the Embassy of Finland, lies the newly reborn Beirut Stock Exchange.
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