Sentence examples for shift of trade from inspiring English sources

The quake also caused a gradual shift of trade and population to Southern California; by the 1920 Census, Los Angeles had surpassed San Francisco as the West's largest city.

Indeed, Waitrose procures and supplies the vast majority of goods to Ocado and so the threat of any shift of trade from Ocado to Waitrose should be considered a demonstrable challenge to our minds at least.

This decline seems to have been part of a general shift of trade routes that can for convenience be associated with the First Crusade (1096 99) and that made the route from the Black Sea to the Baltic less attractive to commerce.

Nevertheless, some changes proved irreversible, like the shift of trade patterns to German ports, and the decline of the fisheries.

The first unanticipated consequence is a rapid shift of trading from the New York Stock Exchange and other traditional exchanges to electronic trading "platforms" that consist only of a computer.

Further decline in canal traffic resulted from a shift of Australasian trade from Europe to Japan and East Asia.

This is where we have to turn to another major and perhaps equally diverse historiography, that of eighteenth-century India particularly the debates on shifting patterns of trade and authority.

The country's ministry of finance is said to be examining the shift of currency-trading offshore.

The downgrade could speed up the shift of derivatives trades to central clearinghouses, something that is being pushed by regulators.

The addition of the London Metal Exchange also would allow the Hong Kong exchange to benefit from the increasing shift of commodities trading to emerging economies, which continue to consume rising levels of metals and other raw materials.

Improved information technology, as well as the shift of some trading to central exchanges, has allowed buyers and sellers to eliminate redundant contracts for credit-default swaps, the settlements bank said.