Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Trading stock options is a high-risk business. That is why Jack Keller of Winnetka, Ill., took up the trade: compared with his previous career as a professional poker player, being a market maker looked low key. Keller, the No. 2 U.S. money winner at poker -- $300,000 this year -- has traded a seat at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas for one on the Chicago Board Options Exchange...
Amid the growing U.S. hubbub about acquisitive foreigners, a fact worth remembering is the importance of America's own trillion-dollar foreign holdings abroad. Any crimping of foreign investment in the U.S. would invite similar measures against American investors elsewhere -- the equivalent, that is, of trade protectionism. Ironically enough, overseas worries about rising American protectionism toward imports is a prime reason for many foreign manufacturers' desire to buy physically into the U.S. market...
...after years of mammoth U.S. budget and foreign-trade deficits, the situation today is radically different. The buying of America has virtually turned into an industry of its own, with sharp-eyed advance crews scouting out the country's most attractively undervalued treasures, researchers typing up thick intelligence reports on U.S. acquisition targets, finance teams huddling with investment bankers in Tokyo, London and elsewhere, and blue-chip law firms constantly at work drafting reams of tender offers, prospectuses and sale documents...
...Japanese have largely shied away from takeovers of major U.S. industrial corporations, at least partly in fear of a public relations backlash. "We are worried about investment friction now. It may get serious," says Hiroki Sakamoto, a senior official of the Japan External Trade Organization. But last month Dainippon Ink & Chemicals won a long and bitter battle to take over New York's Reichhold Chemicals, a maker of specialty polymers. The price: $540 million...
Zimbabwe has launched a last- ditch war to save the black rhinoceros and shut down an illicit trade in rhino horns...