This study has documented a largely unstudied segment of essential medicines markets, NGO wholesaling, through interviews with most NGO traders, with NGO facilities buying from those wholesalers, and with for-profit competitors in Europe and Tanzania.
Hundreds of raids have been mounted on such facilities; many parallel traders have been fined for obstructing roads around them.
Council chiefs in Leeds have agreed in principle to cut a quarter of the trading space at Kirkgate Market – a move which has sparked concerns from traders and supporters of the facilities.
Although South Korea joined Japan last month in slapping sanctions on a range of Iranian banks and firms, bringing it into line with other American allies, it remains keen to protect trade with Iran that topped $10 billion last year, so it quickly signed a deal to let Korean and Iranian traders settle accounts via special facilities in two Korean banks and in Korean currency.
Data on socio-economic status showed that out of the 193 sick peasants that sought care, 100 (52%) sought care from a public provider while among traders only 38% went to public facilities.
For example, if traders see oil piling up in storage facilities or aboard supertankers in the BP fleet, it is a signal to bet oil prices will fall.
Many oil traders worry that terrorists may sabotage oil facilities, sending prices to new highs that could throttle the economic recovery.
Algorithm/quant traders juggle high-frequency trades and must have facility in math, computer science or engineering.
That's because the US appears to have been selecting such targets with a modicum of care, choosing to strike some oil facilities under IS control while sparing local traders and businesspeople.
One knocked out about 400,000 bpd of output; an audacious attack on port facilities apparently failed.And if you want to see traders panic, just mention Saudi Arabia and terrorism in the same sentence.
