In 1775, Jaquet-Droz's son Henri-Louis moved to London, then a leading clockmaking center, and struck a deal with James Cox, a merchant who specialized in trade with China.
Two years after paying more than $900 million to buy a company that specialized in trading Nasdaq stocks, Merrill Lynch & Company said yesterday that it would merge the business into its trading operation and shrink the number of stocks it trades by 76percentt.
In 2009, a foppish Chongqing official named Ding Meng, who specialized in trading land for bribes, was found to have amassed two hundred pairs of luxury shoes, a collection of expensive ceramic tea pots, and a hundred Western suits at a cost of up to six thousand dollars each.
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"I am not worried about Chinese expansionism, but Korean expansionism," said Mr. Tekiev, who runs a trading company that specializes in trade with China, a nation that starts only 20 miles west of here.
It specializes in trading large blocks of stock for financial institutions, and its automated trading systems are marketed to exchanges throughout the world.
He later became an international consultant, specializing in trade with the Middle East.
His father is an associate specializing in trade, technical and vocational programs at the New York State Education Department in Albany.
Ms. Gleba specializes in trade paperbacks "by young authors," she said, "though not as young as Ben".
