His is a profound, often bleak, trade, leavened by feeling for the fellow man: "When you see the oxygen mask over an opponent's face, your humanity kicks in," he says.
The impeachment proceedings in Washington draw a bleak backdrop to trading, although the President's struggle for survival hasn't moved markets much yet.
It was another bleak day of trading for the pound, which fell 1.9% against the dollar, buying $1.3749, from $1.4017 a day earlier.
While all these people are trading bleak and inscrutable McCarthyisms, an ancient septic tank truck is making its way to the United States from Mexico.
Even with the bleak economic figures, trades were still staying out of the Treasury market, upping the yield on the 10-year note to 2.71%, from 2.66% Wednesday.
So far, the news coming out of the White House Correspondent's Association Dinner party-circuit has all been bleak: People has traded in its after-party in favor of* teamed up with Time Inc. cousin TIME for a joint cocktail party the night before the event, and Bloomberg and Vanity Fair — traditionally two of the big power players on Saturday night — announced that they are merging their parties.
Built as an art museum in the Mussolini era, the lugubrious Triennale often overwhelms its shows, including this one, which has the bleak air of a trade fair.
The biggest beneficiaries of the rally have been those companies with prospects so bleak that their shares trade for less than ¥50, the face value of most Japanese stocks.
He may sometimes have illustrated Karl Kraus's bleak definition of our trade -- a journalist is someone who has nothing to say and who knows how to say it -- but he did have that magical gift of being able to describe a forgotten event in a way that makes you want to read about it decades later.
If progressive forces fail to create a vision that resonates with significant portions of leave and remain voters, the future is very bleak indeed – a free-trade, low-tax, low-regulation economy, with opposition coming not from the left, but from an increasingly insular economic nationalism fuelled by the likes of Arron Banks.
