And both governments and firms have issued increasing volumes of bonds in their own currency.
Their business was all about increasing volumes and spreading their messages as widely as possible.
We've been pushing hard through that period to the end of June to get increasing volumes and the increase in the selling price.
Five years ago it warned that the "neat division of the market" allowed assemblers to adopt a "strategy of increasing profits on limited production instead of increasing volumes".
HFT firms maintain that no change is needed, on the grounds that they help to lubricate markets by increasing volumes and ironing out inconsistencies in prices.
China has become Brazil's biggest trading partner, buying ever increasing volumes of soybeans and iron ore, while investing billions in Brazil's energy sector.
The LSE still has a near-monopoly in listing stocks and providing price data, but increasing volumes are being traded on electronic platforms.
Group revenues jumped 7% to €1.2bn and operating profits were up 11% to €334m on the back of increasing volumes of traffic though the tunnel during the peak seasons.
Increasing volumes of data and improved techniques to hold, merge and act upon that data in real-time is driving personalisation via the more traditional marketing levers: price, promotions, product and place.
A copy of the Nats group business plan, obtained by the Guardian, says that the company has to maintain absolute safety levels in spite of increasing volumes and complexity of traffic.
"We are reorganising the department to deal with the ever increasing volumes of patients.
