Mr Valukas reported that Lehman's Repo 105 volumes spiked sharply at the end of a quarter as executives tried to shrink the balance sheet to make the bank appear stronger.

沃卢克斯报告称，雷曼的回购105交易量于每季度末飙增，因为高管们试图缩小资产负债表，以使该银行看上去更加健康。

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Every year, if people used just a quarter of that wasted food, the world hunger would end.

每年，如果人们只使用四分之一的被浪费的食物，世界饥饿问题就会结束。

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The property market in India looks positively frothy: prices there were, at the end of the first quarter, about 17% higher than a year before.

印度的房产市场看上去的确出现泡沫：在一季度末，它的房市价格比前一年高出17%。

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Larger prospects for growth are being proclaimed by government officials after this year's defeat of the Tamil Tiger rebels, which brought an end to a quarter century of civil war.

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So, like mutual funds, active ETFs could wait until the end of a quarter to disclose what they own.

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Such a move will allow chief executive officers to avoid being surprised by their results at the end of a quarter, he added.

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The figure produced in the third month after the end of a quarter - in the Quarterly National Accounts - uses more of the available data.

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