Even the thin trading has a real impact on borrowing costs for governments.
Morgan and Citigroup were profitable, but disappointed as much of the industry struggled with mortgage woes and thin trading revenue.
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Amid thin trading and illiquid markets, prices for gasoline and heating oil are already on the rise and are expected to move higher.
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Tight ownership and thin trading have sometimes worked to everyone's advantage.
"I can make a case the market will go to a new alltime high, " asserts Steinhardt, from his modernistic work area, between glances at his thin trading screen.
Fresh technical selling pressure that started in thin Asian trading is featured early Tuesday.
So thin is trading that on some days many contracts trade as few as 20 Hedgelets or none at all.
The rise has been exacerbated by thin summer trading conditions, with the number of open positions around three-year lows, Grady said.
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Despite the market trading thin, such data releases will be fast and furious for the remainder of our first trading week this year.
Fresh technical selling pressure that started in thin overnight Asian trading was featured Tuesday.
But with thin, flaky trading volume, how do you know if the Hedgelet price is anything close to fair value?
In addition, Lunar New Year holidays in China are expected to make for relatively thin and cautious trading over the next few days.
Trading was thin, with many of the region's markets, including in Japan, China, Australia and Singapore, closed for the New Year holiday.
If ever there were a time to be floating rumors, this is the time, while attention spans are short and trading volume is thin.
For next week, given a shortened trading week and likely thin volumes, calling what the direction gold may take could be tricky.
Trading on its stockmarket remains thin, and the government seems unwilling to float its most successful companies there.
In 1996 Gandur made the salmon leap from the downstream activities of oil trading and marketing, which provide thin margins by moving huge volumes of other people's oil, into the upstream, which entails more risk and upfront investment but offers fatter returns. aog inked its first production-sharing contract with the oil minister of Ivory Coast to overhaul the abandoned offshore Espoir oilfield.
Today is technically the first trading day of the New Year and forex market liquidity remains thin.
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