But critics say banks are profiting mainly from trading activities, not from making loans to small businesses or homeowners.

VOA: special.2009.12.18

And in eighteen hundred eleven, John Jacob Astor built a fur trading center at the mouth of Oregon's Columbia River.

VOA: special.2009.02.19

Secretary Hay asked the nations involved to agree to equal trading rights for all countries in all parts of China.

VOA: special.2010.07.29

The British Hudson's Bay Company also built a trading center on the Columbia and claimed a large area north of it.

VOA: special.2009.02.19

We feel that it's going to maximize our opportunity for trading of knowledge that we will generate in the project."

VOA: special.2010.02.08

Individuals must provide fifty thousand dollars or more to the trading company to pay for the stocks they buy.

VOA: special.2010.10.10

Researchers at the University of Cambridge in England, for example,just tied finger length to success in financial trading.

VOA: special.2009.02.25

"It shows mangroves are probably pretty good candidates for things like carbon-market trading to encourage sustainable forest management."

VOA: special.2011.05.10

Stock exchanges have agreed to temporarily halt trading of any stock that rises or falls ten percent or more within five minutes.

VOA: special.2010.05.21

He crossed the Rio Grande River. He marched toward Monterrey,the major trading and transportation center of northeast Mexico.

VOA: special.2009.02.26

His simple needs were supplied by selling or trading the skins of wild animals in the town.

VOA: special.2009.10.31

Also,the IMF says the activity of these trading systems is largely outside the reach of market regulators.

VOA: special.2011.01.14

It had demanded the Columbia River border because of the Hudson's Bay trading center on the river.

VOA: special.2009.02.19

Day trading companies provide a desk and a computer system to an investor who wants to trade.

VOA: special.2009.04.26