trade
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“Some say sanctions have no effect at all. To those people, I really don’t know what to say,” Pezeshkian said in a recent TV interview, noting that Iran’s trade has fallen between 25% and 35%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
So the company launched a rewards program and gave fans an irresistible reason to collect sticks: to trade them for prizes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
Joseph Cavatoni, senior market strategist at the World Gold Council, told the BBC while wars and trade tensions were "playing into some of these decisions", it didn't "top the list" of motivating factors.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
That flood damaged critical infrastructure and halted trade along the busy Nepal-China corridor.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
To set those charges, he carries the special tool of the blasting trade, his "tamping iron."
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
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To fund the government, the U.S. is now increasingly dependent on volatile demand from leveraged speculators in the form of basis trades.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 4, 2026
An unwinding of these trades would fuel demand for the yen to repay those loans and help strengthen the currency.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
As soon as MarketWatch reports it, or traders see it, they can be expected to take advantage, place the relevant trades and close the gap.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026
Tesla trades lower even as investors anticipate the potential entry of Cybercab into the company’s fleet of self-driving cabs.
From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026
Howie Hubler’s proprietary trading group was of course required to supply information about its trades to both upper management and risk management, but the information the traders supplied disguised the nature of their risk.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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The two sides traded two tries each in a tight first half, with New Zealand's composure and ambition with ball in hand stretching South Africa's onrushing defence.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
Inflation, interest rates and just having gold in a place where it can be traded quickly also played a role.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
Even as interest rates climbed sharply off their pandemic lows, returns on assets have been solid, especially publicly traded equities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Meanwhile the yields on French government debt traded on bond markets recently rose above those of Greece, which required the biggest EU bailouts after the 2008 global financial crisis.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
Gran would be furious if she knew I’d traded even a tiny amount of our food for a magic trick.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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Whether or not that stereotype still holds true, investors who have tried trading with agents say one of the best parts of letting it run is taking the emotion out of investment decisions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
Arsenal headed into the window with a clear remit of ensuring the club become more sustainable and adept at trading.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
The company’s shares have fallen more than 15% over the last 12 months and have been trading around $55.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
Microsoft stock is trading slightly higher this year despite the company’s massive capex.
From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026
The twenty-eight tons of coins were of immense value, and so, too, were the over one thousand rosewood logs that filled a large part of the trading vessel’s hold.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
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