Hints and tips:
...There were other nicknames like Dirty Debbie, Sweaty Betty . . . some of them not repeatable. You had to be thick-skinned and you had to have a sense of humour.”...
...Oil has begun to drop back down this week to pre-invasion levels as traders brace for a sharp drop-off in consumption. But food price inflation remains stubbornly high....
...Smart reads The great meme-stockification The pandemic has led to an explosion of newly minted day-traders....
...We’re pretty sure most traders sending cargo through Suez have contingency plans. And remember how the coronavirus pandemic was going to destroy global trade?...
...The late gains for equities brought out more adventurous traders....
...Clients are drawn from the legal sector, estate agents, motor trade, small businesses and sole traders. Did you think you would get to where you are?...
...“Betty” in the message was a reference to Grable, which rhymes with cable — the term for dollar-sterling trades....
...Traders are biting into their nail beds at this point....
...In a separate chatroom, RBS told three other traders: “We getting a lot Betty at fix” which the FCA said was trader slang for sterling/dollar, coming from “Betty Grable” which rhymes with “cable”....
...He and his wife Betty, who died in January (they leave four children), were wartime fiancés....
...Here, “Betty” made an appearance (“Betty Grable” = “cable”)....
...Might an acquirer swoop in and save Afren’s sweaty Betties from feeling the burn? Only at a price above the market value of debt and equity....
...This vanished everywhere else a long time ago, but here are traders still saying: “You getting betty [ie Grable, rhymes with cable] on the mumble still? We have nowt . . ....
...Betty, Joyce and Earl claim it’s unfair dismissal on grounds of ageism. ● Scene: Local council meeting. “Why are we still giving them access to 600,000 books at a centrally heated site? It’s potty!”...
...On a typical weekday lunchtime you’ll find city traders, porters from Smithfield Meat Market and tourists rubbing shoulders at the pewter-topped bar or tucking into the stridently British menu of oysters...
...Archer Daniels Midland, one of the world’s largest commodities traders, has joined Aliança, encouraging and financing its suppliers to register. Mr Carter’s ambition does not stop at the Amazon....
...Estimated at $1.5m-$2m, the bust sold for $2.43m to art trader Jose Mugrabi....
...In the UK the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders is pressing the government to introduce a £2,000 per vehicle ($2,892) scrapping bonus....
...Betty Rojas has every reason to feel disenchanted with the government of President Hugo Chávez....
...As Barston says: “There’s no Betty Ford clinic for this addiction.”...
...“There was a wonderful woman called Betty Horne, who looked after the furniture floor at John Lewis in Oxford Street,” Conran recalls....
...Not the fluffy stuff known as shearling but that natural, heavier, short-cropped sheepskin – the stuff that had become so synonymous with 1970s market traders and geezers in side streets trying to sell you...
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