Sentences with phrase «making trade rules»

However, over the years, Canadian provinces have become more important players in making trade rules.

Not exact matches

The central role of this independent regulatory agency is to protect investors in the financial markets by making sure that publicly traded companies play by the rules.

The ACCC did not say on Friday whether the banks succeeded in influencing the ringgit rates — which affect who profits from a trade, and by how much — but said that rules required them to make their pricing submissions independently.

In previous instances, big companies have sided with banks on derivatives rules, fearful that changes would make trading more expensive for them as counterparties.

NEW YORK (Reuters)- A group of small brokerages and large commodities companies convinced lawmakers to tweak a rule that they say would have made derivatives trading more expensive for them and sent more business to Wall Street banks that already dominate the market.

The President will continue to promote fair economic competition, and will make it clear that there can not be free and open trade if countries are not held accountable to the rules.

They also developed new rules, known as circuit breakers, allowing exchanges to halt trading temporarily in instances of exceptionally large price declines.12 For example, under current rules, the New York Stock Exchange will temporarily halt trading when the S&P 500 stock index declines 7 percent, 13 percent, and 20 percent in order to provide investors «the ability to make informed choices during periods of high market volatility.»

«The US government acted as police force (identifying the foreign government's crime), prosecutor (making the legal arguments), jury (ruling on the evidence), and judge (sentencing the foreigner to US retaliatory punishment),» Chad Bown, a senior fellow at the pro-free trade Peterson Institute for International Economics, wrote in a memo about Section 301's history earlier in August.

In the US, the Volcker Rule has caused banks to shut down their proprietary trading desks, while provisions of the Dodd - Frank Act are causing big FX banks to stop making markets in currencies and to act simply as agents for their customers.

Canada's move to take the U.S. to the World Trade Organization over its abuses of globally agreed rules, made public Wednesday, is a clear signal that the NAFTA exercise is up against the wall and that the U.S. is preparing to trigger the six - month withdrawal notice.

After that, I learned my lesson and implemented my «Never Sell Berkshire Stock» rule: never sell Berkshire, unless it is trading at such an obscene premium that it would make Microsoft at the height of the dotcom bubble look amateurish.

After the Supreme Court in 1911 struck down the form of resale price maintenance enabled by fair trade laws, 59 Congress in 1937 carved out an exception for state fair trade laws through the Miller - Tydings Act.60 When the Supreme Court in 1951 ruled that producers could enforce minimum prices only against those retailers that had signed contracts agreeing to do so, 61 Congress responded with a law making minimum prices enforceable against nonsigners too.62

The CPTPP will make Canadian trade rules and investments more transparent to exporters, she says.

Efforts should be made to strengthen the effectiveness of the WTO's enforcement of its trade rules.

Every big Wall Street firm has an extensive compliance program, with elaborate protocols and training programs designed to make sure investment bankers, stockbrokers and bond traders understand the rules around no - nos like unauthorized trading, money laundering and terrorist financing.

The goals include reducing trade deficits with NAFTA countries, strengthening rules of origin to ensure the pact's benefits aid products that are made in North America and increasing market access for telecommunications and financial services.

I can make that inference because it's common knowledge that you're rational, and your only motive for trading is an expected profit, so we've ruled out the possibility that you're buying, for example, because your preference for risk has changed.

They used mathematical rules to make trading decisions and were highly successful.

Their portfolio simulation approach: (1) is restricted to the technology, industrials, health care, financials and basic materials sectors; (2) assumes an extreme sentiment day for a stock has at least four novel news items (prior to 3:30 PM in New York) and is among the top 5 % of average daily positive or negative events; (3) makes portfolio changes at market close; (4) holds positions for 20 days, subject to a 5 % stop - loss rule and a 20 % take - profit rule; (5) constrains any one position to 15 % of portfolio value; and, (6) assumes round - trip trading friction of 0.25 %.

They include «rules of origin,» or the percentage of parts that must be made in North America for a product to qualify for free - trade status; language on how to settle disputes affecting foreign investors; changing Mexican labor standards; and Trump's stated goal of reducing U.S. bilateral trade deficits.

The increasing chatter about «trading a rally» rather than «investing for value» makes me suspect that we shouldn't rule out a decline into the 700's, where I expect value - oriented investors to take a firmer stand.

The two sides are trading briefs in the case, but the government made it clear this week that Thrivent should not worry about class action remaining a part of the rule.

To prove the difference having a rule - based trading strategy and market timing system can make, check out the graphic below, which is a 10 - year historical comparsion of the performance of The Wagner Daily newsletter versus the benchmark S&P 500 Index:

Delegations were led by the chief negotiators for the three countries, who indicated that progress was made in the areas of sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) rules, customs, trade facilitation, telecommunications, good regulatory practices, anti-corruption, market access for goods, technical barriers to trade (TBT), digital trade, and some sectoral annexes.

He might call for strengthening «rules of origin» standards that mandate that a certain percentage of specific finished products must be made in a TPP country in order to be considered eligible for the TPP free trade treatment (a policy that encourages domestic manufacturing).

Using rules - based trading strategies reduces the chance of an investor making a discretionary decision based on a previous investment outcome.

Sentiment remains positive amongst the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RECP) participants that issues of complex trade rules and other infrastructure concerns can be ironed out to makes ASEAN economies a desirable destination for trade and commerce.

Another way of calculating the proportional reduction in the content rule, is to consider the combined effect of the two thresholds. An auto part can qualify as TPP - made with just 30 % TPP content. A vehicle can qualify as TPP - made if 45 % of its content originate within the TPP — including auto parts which only had minority TPP content in the first place. This «double jeopardy» effect means that the theoretical minimum regional content for a finished vehicle to qualify for TPP trade preferences would be only 13.5 % (equal to 30 % of 45 %).

(*) Working with the rest of the world to change WTO rules making it mandatory that countries running a trade deficit more than 1 % of their GDP must impose a 10 % surcharge on imports; while a country running a surplus more than 1 % of GDP must impose a 10 % surcharge on export prices.

Apart from the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network of the US Department of the Treasury («FinCEN»), major US regulators such as the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission («CFTC»), Internal Revenue Service («IRS») and SEC, have yet to make official pronouncements or adopt rules providing guidance with respect to the classification and treatment of Bitcoins and other Digital Math - Based Assets for purposes of commodities, tax and securities laws.

Or if, to take another example, you try to redistribute power within capitalism by balancing managerial authority by trade union privileges, you either choke the entrepreneurial spirit or you eliminate profits — the system's lifeblood — or, as a rule, you do both, and so again you end by making everyone poorer.

The neatly ruled and tidy categories of modern thought can not comprehend the archaic principle that made the destruction of the World Trade Center not meaningless but meaningful for its perpetrators.

A new rule for certificates registered for 2011 will simplify trading and make the process more straightforward for end users.

«We applaud the House for passing this critically important legislation that will make the U.S. COOL rules for muscle cuts of beef and pork compliant with the World Trade Organization (WTO) requirements.

«The rulings just referred to establish the proposition that the fact that a word or expression has a geographical meaning does not prevent its appropriation as a trade - mark or as the designation of a manufacturer's or dealer's product, when it is so used as not to have a geographical or descriptive signification, nor make legally impossible the assertion in good faith of a claim of exclusive right to use such word or expression for a non-geographical and non-descriptive purpose, even though such use may result or have resulted in its acquiring a new meaning or new meanings separate and distinct from the one it had before.»

Australian Leather owner Eddie Oygur is seeking a separate ruling in Australia that Deckers is guilty of deceptive conduct, by trading under the name Ugg Australia when the company is based in California and its Ugg boots are made in China.

Not only did they trade him away, but they had to fudge the rules to do it, making him a player - to - be-named-later-wink-wink to get the deal done.

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They made trades designed to game baseball's free agent compensation rules, a strategy that came to a head in 2011 when the Rays owned 12 of the first 90 picks in the MLB draft.

The English FA have made it clear the new rules aren't being proposed in order to stop the elite players from outside the EU plying their trade in the Premier League, but to try and benefit the health of the England national team.

While bamboo plants do contain «bamboo kunh» which allows the plants to resist diseases while growing, the US Free Trade Commission ruled in 2010 that some companies that promoted bamboo have made inaccurate marketing claims.

15 February 2011 — AVIATION: AIR PASSENGER DUTY Question: To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the compatibility of air passenger duty tax with World Trade Organisation rules.

The Supreme Court said Monday it won't hear the Obama administration's appeal of a lower court ruling that made it tougher to prosecute people for trading on leaked inside information.

Applying rules forcing operators of ships registered in the UK, or trading to the UK, to pay above market rates for their crew members would not make seafarers any better off.

It makes no sense for the UK to abandon EU agencies and tariff - free trading rules that have served us well, supporting our industrial sectors, protecting workers and consumers and safeguarding the environment.

The main problem is that the UK leaving the single market or otherwise diverging from current rules would automatically make trade more difficult.

And this is our message to the people of the UK: if you value parliamentary sovereignty, our legal system, public services or democratically made rules to protect society and the environment, tell your MEP and MP that they must stop this toxic trade deal before it's too late.

To make political donations trade unions must first conduct a secret ballot of their members to secure consent for the adoption of political objects and to adopt political fund rules according to which a separate political fund would be created.

The decisions of the trade unions will of necessity involve private meetings, of the persons competent under each trade union's own rule book to make the relevant decisions.

Orchids make up 70 % of species listed by the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) and some can sell on the black market for tens of thousands of pounds, thus providing the motivation for traders to bypass the rules aimed at preventing species from becoming extinct.