Trading was very light ahead of yesterday's auction.

昨天的拍卖之前交易很少。

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Ahead lie new rules forcing Banks to set aside more capital against losses in their trading businesses.

还会有新的规定强制银行留出充足的资金以应对交易中的损失。

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They insist they will go ahead with plans to introduce margin trading, short selling, and futures contracts on share prices.

他们坚决主张按原定计划引入保证金交易，卖空交易，以及股指期货。

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Markets continue to take their cues from Europe, and some strategists are predicting volatile trading ahead of a key election in Greece this weekend.

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But in an attempt to quash the speculation -- which had seen Barclays shares plunge by more than 12 percent -- the group stressed its Barclays Capital investment banking division was trading ahead of last year.

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In the second scheme, a former compliance lawyer for Morgan Stanley and her husband, a private practice lawyer, tipped a trader about upcoming mergers and acquisitions being handled by the bank in exchange for a cut of the profits from trading ahead of the event.

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