By year-end it aims to put most of its 17 fixed-income, currency and commodity product lines on Web ET.

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Eventually Pirelli shed its commodity tire business to focus on premium lines.

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Globalised production lines, globalised labour markets, commodity markets, culture - all this acts like social superglue preventing any politician from even contemplating an overt protectionist or state-capitalist response.

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