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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Its specialists were losing business to more-efficient electronic trading--and were being investigated for front-running, that is, trading for their own accounts ahead of clients'.

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In July 2012 Australia's 500 biggest polluters will start paying a tax on emissions, ahead of an emissions-trading scheme due to start three years later.

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U.S. business leaders welcomed the latest move but said they would have liked to see a more definitive statement that the U.S. was joining the Trans Pacific Partnership, which is viewed by some leaders as a stepping stone to a wider Asia-Pacific free-trading bloc in the years ahead.

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