The old debate about whether, or to what extent, financial markets are a force for social good has taken on a new urgency in the aftermath of last year's market meltdown.

过去有一个争辩，金融市场对社会利益来说是否是一种力量，或者这种力量又达到多大程度，在去年的市场衰退之后，已经出现了新的紧急状态。

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The market for derivatives is expected to grow in the coming years as new regulations eventually force most over-the-counter derivatives to clear through an exchange.

由于新规定最终强制要求绝大多数场外衍生品通过交易所结清，预计衍生品市场今后数年将出现增长。

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NASDAQ, New York's other big stock exchange, has evolved from a secondary market dealing mainly in technology and start-up companies to a global force.

而纽约的另一个大型证券交易所纳斯达克(Nasdaq)也已经由一家主要从事科技与新兴企业股票交易的二版市场成长为一家全球性的交易所。

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Biting the bullet now would position the Mets as a force in the lucrative New York market for years to come.

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Though consumer credit has recently hit a new high, the housing market is no longer a force for higher interest rates, says Ciaran Barr, an economist at Deutsche Bank.

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Mr Brown vigorously rejects one criticism that, these days, is sometimes aimed at New Labour, the pro-market social-democratic force of which, along with Tony Blair, his predecessor as prime minister, and Lord Mandelson, now the business secretary, he was a progenitor: that it was a fair-weather creed.

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