Sentences with phrase «trading center of»

Belize was an important trading center of the Mayan civilization.

Enjoy an evening at leisure to explore one of northern Europe's oldest port cities — once an important trading center of the Hanseatic League.

Bergen was once an important trading center of the Hanseatic League, which dominated commercial activity in northern Europe in the Late Middle Ages.

It is the harbor place and the trading center of the country.

The company is doing that by leveraging relationships with external entities such as the USDA's Food Export USA program and the World Trade Center of Greater Philadelphia.

With the launch of the Making Global Local initiative, USTDA announced the following partners: World Trade Center of Greater Philadelphia, Missouri International Trade and Investment Office, Erie County (NY) Industrial Development Agency, Duquesne University

«Today is the 15th anniversary of perhaps the greatest tragedy to affect our city and our nation: the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center of September 11, 2001.

Well - known buildings in the city center include the Kanselarij (the former chancellery), the Waag (old trade center of the city), the church of St. Bonifatius and the leaning tower Oldehove.

Long back, the city of Odessa was the trade center of the Russian empire.

Ten thousands Chinese are found in the main trading centers of Denpasar, Singaraja, and Amlapura.

The Pemecutan Clan (descendant of King of Denpasar) has a privilege to used Chinese plates in its Pura (temple), it is understandable since Denpasar is a trade center of south Bali and Chinese merchants are numerous in this area.

Not exact matches

The campaign plan expected «proposals on trade, regulatory and energy policy would raise economic output and revenues» to offset most of the remaining shortfall, as cited by the Tax Policy Center analysis.

As 1 World Trade Center starts to claim a place on the Lower Manhattan skyline, the area's retail scene is beginning to revive, with landlords raising rents in anticipation of thousands of new office workers, tourists and residents, commercial real estate experts said.

The booze flowed, and the party spilled out onto the company's roof deck, where guests could smoke and take in a view of Manhattan that stretches from the World Trade Center to the Chrysler Building.

Trading volumes could be light as most financial centers across Europe and Asia were closed on account of May Day.

If you are going to invest in a trade show make sure you are patent pending, have a sellable product, a one - page sales sheet, a strong elevator pitch and you can communicate your cost breakdown,» says Bill McHenry with ESM Sales and advisor to the Entrepreneurial Center of the University of Illinois and Entrepreneur Center at DePaul University.

Chitchat at Davos last January centered on Trump's controversial campaign pledges to impose a travel ban on a number of predominately Muslim countries, to upend the North American Free Trade Agreement and to build a wall at the Mexican border.

«There are two things driving the market: Earnings and the news flow out of Washington,» said Randy Frederick, vice president of trading and derivatives at the Schwab Center for Financial Research.

Berkshire Hathaway investment managers Todd Combs, left, Ted Weschler, right, with Tracy Britt Cool, chairman of Berkshire's Benjamin Moore, Johns Manville, Oriental Trading Company and Larson - Juhl, center.

EU leaders have formally agreed Friday to start the second phase of Brexit negotiations, mainly centered around trade talks and a transition period.

Just east of the World Trade Center site, at 22 Cortlandt Street near Broadway, the discount department store Century 21 announced plans in June to add 76,000 square feet of retail space, which would include a cafe, dressing rooms and bathrooms, to the 120,000 square feet it already occupies.

I spoke at the Millennium Hilton at World Trade Center, which was, of course, crushed the next day.

Buildings like 7 World Trade Center and the new Goldman Sachs headquarters, along with the recent decision of Condé Nast to move about 5,000 employees to 1 World Trade Center as its anchor tenant in 2014, are ensuring there will be no ebb in the number of office workers walking the streets at lunch and after work hours, he said.

With retailers jostling to locate as close to the World Trade Center site as possible, Brookfield Office Properties announced plans in June to improve and expand retail offerings in about 180,000 square feet of retail space at the World Financial Center, just west of the World Trade Center site, as part of a $ 250 million upgrade of the four - building complex.

The 360,000 square feet of retail to open in 2014 at the World Trade Center site will not be as centralized as it was in the concourse mall, but will be distributed throughout the site, stretching from the World Financial Center as far as the new Fulton Street transportation hub.

She oversaw such investigations as the World Trade Center and Oklahoma City bombings, the Unabomber case and the deportation of young Elian Gonzalez to Cuba.

The United Kingdom wants new bilateral trade pacts, but those are hard to negotiate until its post-Brexit terms with the European Union are known, says Heather Conley of the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

«My sense is that there was always a pent - up demand to return downtown to take advantage of emerging residential, the presence of commercial, and to try to capture that activity that was in the Trade Center itself,» Mr. Slattery said.

Much organized opposition to NAFTA centered on the fear that the abolishment of trade barriers would spur U.S. firms to pack up and move to Mexico to take advantage of cheap labor.

Their main effort centered on convincing people that all consumers benefit from the widest possible choice of products at the lowest possible price -; which means that consumers would be the biggest beneficiaries of lowered trade barriers.

A report by the Center for Exhibition Industry Research (CEIR) stated that 81 percent of trade show attendees surveyed said they had buying authority; to capitalize on this opportunity yourself, you'll want to invest heavily in early outreach.

Besides targeting sources of weapons technology, the curbs were the first time the United States sought to directly attack North Korea's daily consumer trade, said Peter Harrell, a sanctions expert at the Center for a New American Security.

Trading volumes could remain light as most financial centers across Europe and Asia were closed on account of May Day.

The U.S. could dial back the trade deficit by trimming the value of the dollar, suggests Dean Baker, co-director of the non-partisan Center for Economic and Policy Research.

Kimco Realty Corp. (NYSE: KIM) is a real estate investment trust (REIT) headquartered in New Hyde Park, N.Y., that is one of North America's largest publicly traded owners and operators of open - air shopping centers.

During World War II, the neutral country became the center of the gold trade in Europe, making transactions with both the Allies and Axis powers.

He also points out that the exchange isn't even owned by a New York firm anymore, and that most of the trading happens at high - frequency nerve centers in New Jersey.

Business Identity Theft: Immediately following the World Trade Center disaster, hundreds of thousands of confidential papers were strewn about the streets of Manhattan, many from brokerage firms and other places of business that house sensitive information.

Past winners include: Howard W. Lutnick, chief executive of BGC Partners, who was credited with rebuilding BGC's predecessor Cantor Fitzgerald after two - thirds of its headquarters workers were killed in the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center in 2010; Tom Adams, chief executive of language - learning software Rosetta Stone, in 2009, and Matthew Szulik, chairman of Red Hat open - source software, in 2008.

«If Trump really signs the order, that is a declaration of trade war with China,» said Wei Jianguo, former vice commerce minister and now an executive deputy director of the China Center for International Economic Exchanges, a government - linked think tank.

In an unexpected move, the United States is upgrading Malaysia from the lowest tier on its list of worst human trafficking centers to the so - called «Tier 2 Watch list», a status that could smooth the way for an ambitious U.S. - led free - trade deal with Malaysia.

Nobody seems quite sure, though the building itself does maintain its nostalgic appeal even if it's lost much of its relevance as a trading center.

«In order to trade securities, they need to be a broker - dealer,» said Jerry Brito, executive director at Coin Center, a digital currency advocacy group based in Washington, D.C. «I could imagine [Coinbase] could sell a number of other tokens» with the license.

Last year, Singapore, a trading hub of the world's largest commodity companies, came under scrutiny from the governments of some resource - producing countries such as Australia who said they suspect the companies are using units in the Southeast Asian financial center to avoid tax.

For a rundown of federal export programs, call the Trade Information Center at 800-872-8723.

Gun makers are again the center of a national debate over how to put an end to mass shootings, and their stocks are trading like things are different this time.

Key commodities traded globally such as crude oil, gold, copper and softs like wheat are typically priced in dollars, with liquidity often favor the major exchanges in New York, London and Chicago as centers of trade.

Trade has been front and center of the U.S. Presidential election.

CNBC's Mary Thompson speaks to Henrik Lundqvist of the New York Rangers, about his charity and efforts to help Cantor Fitzgerald commemorate the World Trade Center attacks.

The New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq observe a moment of silence to honor victims, their families and survivors of the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center, sixteen years ago.