1. It was one of the great hongs, trading houses, that had been booted out by Mao after Liberation.

2. These trading houses have invested heavily in global networks of information-gathering affiliates and extensive communications systems.

3. Trading house Nissho Iwai Corp. stock rose 38 yen to 581 yen -- the highest close since January 9, 1992.

4. A rising executive at a big trading house says he was counselled by his seniors to keep his views hidden if he wanted to get on.

5. When employees of Mitsubishi Corporation, a huge trading house, go on a beer binge they are (informally) required to quaff Kirin—a company under Mitsubishi's wing.

5. try its best to collect and create good sentences.

6. Back on the floor of the Beijing trading house, however, China's retail investors are not concerned with the more abstruse musings of the finance professionals.

7. The trial deal via trading house Vitol was likely to clear the way for Europe to resume badly-needed purchases of the light Libyan oil - definitely difficult to compensate for.

8. However, a Reuters report in April, citing an unnamed source, said that China would buy the first oil cargo from Libyan rebels via trading house Vitol.

9. Corn futures have risen 13 per cent in the past week as rumours circulated that a trading house had sold millions of tonnes of US corn to China.

10. In one case, says an executive at a Japanese trading house, tuna that arrived in America was set aside by customs, rotting before it was inspected.

11. We pride ourselves as a first class , multi - national intelligence and professional gathering and development trading house.

12. If it changed, there would be too much harm. The whole export sector would suffer," says Jimi Pang, a trader for an international steel trading house.

13. Switch trading refers to the use of a specialized third - party trading house in a countertrade arrangement.