The phrase "a trading unit" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to finance, economics, or business to refer to a standardized quantity of goods or services that can be traded.
Example: "In the stock market, a trading unit typically represents a specific number of shares that can be bought or sold in a single transaction."
Alternatives: "a trading block" or "a trading segment".
By the time of the collapse, Mr. Belden -- who devised many of the trading strategies -- headed a trading unit of more than 100 people.
Questions rose last month about the bank's activities amid reports that a trading unit in London was taking outsized positions to hedge against risk that they were distorting the market.
Shareholders in SK voted at their annual general meeting against Sovereign's call to fire Mr. Chey, 43, for his involvement in a fraud of at least $1.3 billion at a trading unit.
Neal Shear will lead a trading unit at the private equity firm's New York office, where he's working with Apollo's private-equity and capital markets units, according to Bloomberg.
Allegheny Energy, an energy trading firm, filed a lawsuit yesterday against Merrill Lynch, accusing the firm of fraud in the sale of a trading unit to Allegheny last year for $409 million.
Questions over whether banks have been engaging in such trading for themselves while calling it "market-making" or "hedging" came into focus last month, when the reports emerged that a trading unit of JPMorgan in London was taking such large positions in the name of hedging that they were distorting the market.
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The amount of gold a trade unit earns on each trip is related to the distance it had to travel to a foreign market; more gold is earned on longer trips.
He also approved a change in the way a key trading unit was assessing threats of trouble in its then-burgeoning portfolio.
Merrill Lynch paid $800 million for an energy trading unit after unloading a similar business a few years earlier.
Emmanuel Fages, an energy market analyst at Orbeo, a carbon trading unit part-owned by the French bank Société Générale, said emissions from industries covered by the system had declined by 4.3percentt.
