So far, the American rich and the trading-up crowd are in no mood to splurge for high-price, high-visibility status goods.

迄今为止，美国有钱人和上层社会还没什么心思炫耀昭示身份的高价奢侈品。

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Share prices were marked up as soon as trading started.

交易一开始，股票价格就涨上去了。

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Gas prices are discouraging small car owners from trading up to SUV's.

汽油的价格使得小车车主不敢卖掉小车购买运动型多用途汽车。

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As part of a drive to combat global warming the European Commission has been preparing to propose legislation that restricts CO2 emissions from cars to an average of 120 grams per kilometer by 2012. (See: "Carbon Trading Catch-Up") Currently the average new car in Europe produces 160 grams of carbon dioxide per kilometer.

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Likewise, corporate stock owners who must navigate tricky insider-trading rules and lock-up periods often benefit from personally tailored advice.

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But instead of dropping price improvement or addressing customer problems, Lutnick slapped BrokerTec with a suit, claiming it had violated eSpeed's patents on such bond-trading conventions as the "work-up" (a practice that gave a trader, buying or selling at a given price, the right to execute all trading at that price until he's done) and "trading time" (the grace period a trader has to act under a work-up).

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