Look for at least a burst of busier market dealings in the immediate aftermath of the jobs report, due out in less than an hour.

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MSBs, however, the scarcity of government bonds makes it hard for the central bank to engage in open-market bond dealings to control the money supply.

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Long liquidation, much of which was profit taking and margin-call selling, hit the gold market in late-morning dealings.

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Enormous credit must go to Hodgson, whose shrewd dealings in the transfer market and meticulous planning on and off the pitch have paid dividends.

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Some sections of Portsmouth's supporters have attributed much of the blame for the club's demise to chief executive Peter Storrie's dealings in the transfer market.

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The bank's deputy chief executives are also accused of gaining "concealed" percentages and conducting dealings without informing the stock market authority publicly, which is against the laws of the Egyptian Central Bank and the stock market.

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But, ironically, it was in his international dealings, in the same US market which had proved his making two decades earlier, that Sir Peter first hinted he might struggle to fulfil the high expectations placed on him by City investors.

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In 1994 the Dubai-based firm bought a factory in the country with a view to providing utilities services for the domestic Chinese market, but unfortunately the investment failed due to the corrupt dealings of a nearby business.

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Samsung, meanwhile, has gone for market share and is now on the cusp of realizing huge benefits from that in its dealings with Google.

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