That's an excellent question, especially looking into factors that affect the return-generating process in the stock market-in other words, factors that affect the stock prices in a conventional sense: Market liquidity, length of the daily fasting period, especially contrasting summer months with winter months when Ramadan coincides with one versus the other, with the length of day being really longer during summer months.

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What they did instead of just-remember the Federal Funds Rate is a target interest rate that the Fed attempts to hit through buying and selling treasury bills in the U.S. or in other countries buying and selling government bonds to affect the market.

他们真正做的事-记住,联邦资金利率是,美联储试图通过在美国,买进和卖出国库券,或在其他国家买进和卖出政府债券,来影响市场的目标利率。

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Agriculture subsidies in the European Union affect the politics of subsidies here and that affects the costs of food and what we pay for them at the market.

欧盟对农业的补贴政策影响了,美国的政策,进而影响了食品的价格,而在市场上我们会为此付出代价

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