Benfica have now joined their arch-rivals Porto in being recognised around Europe as master traders.
In her role as commodities chief, according to the March document, Ms. Masters oversaw traders in Houston who were in a vexing position: selling electricity from power plants in California and Michigan was a losing endeavor.
Morrison's farmers and rum traders, masters and slaves, indentured whites and captive Native Americans live side by side, often in violent conflict, in a lawless, ripe American Eden that is both a haven and a prison — an emerging nation whose identity is rooted equally in Old World superstitions and New World appetites and fears.
In a world where, as the epigraph from Zbigniew Herbert puts it, a rat has become the unit of currency, Packer is King Rat, a solipsistic trader in futures, master of an amoral universe.
American public and private sector leaders in particular should contemplate the words of the 25th president, William McKinley, who, in 1892 when the U.S. was still one of the most protectionist countries in the world, said: "Under free trade the trader is the master and the producer the slave.
Since the regulator's findings surfaced, JPMorgan has defended Ms. Masters and the traders, disputing that "Blythe Masters or any employee lied or acted inappropriately in this matter".
In the shabby Karachi hotel, he shared a room with "Master," a 41-year-old shoe trader from Quetta, also bound for Australia.
SWAGGERING and arrogant: the Wall Street trader of legend, a master of the universe who bets on bonds, currencies or whatever else he fancies, was never the most attractive of species.
During the go-go years of the middle 1980s, when every run-of-the-mill bond trader fancied himself a master of the universe, Volcker was the real deal.
"I love finding a great man's-style watch, with lots of features and a big dial it makes me feel like a master of the universe," says a trader at one Wall Street proprietary trading desk.
