Profits have soared since the dark days of 2001 and companies are so flush with cash that they are buying back their own shares, merging and acquiring each other as if the good times will never end.

自从2001年那些黑色的日子之后，他们的企业利润不断飙升，他们的资金是如此的充裕以至于开始回购自己的股票，相互兼并和收购，似乎这美好时光将永无尽头。

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But Bervy, a tall 46-year-old with a dark Fu Manchu mustache, has lots of cash from selling his real estate business back East in 2005.

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The railways were auctioned off into private hands in the hope that private cash and new management would transform it from the dark ages of British Rail.

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Stocks trade on dozens of exchanges, automatic trading systems, dark pools and crossing networks these days, and trading in futures and options markets affects trading in the cash markets.

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