In December 2013, 73 employees in the maintenance and trade function at SPC Ardmona … were made redundant, and the function outsourced to an external maintenance services provider".
The rebuilding of the Volga-Baltic Waterway, of which the Sheksna River is a part, has enhanced Cherepovets's trading function.
The Germans continued to hold their annual Book Fair in Leipzig, but this was primarily a trade function.
As the trading function grew more important, those who remained craftsmen fell into a condition of dependence upon the traders.
Enron Energy Services, another money-losing unit, spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to build a Potemkin-village trading floor to impress equity analysts invited to a conference, though the unit had no trading function.
We recommend that Ofgem should require the six largest vertically integrated companies to implement BDO' recommendations 1 (publishing statements to the same year-end), 2 (independent auditor opinion on statements), and 4 reporting of trading function results).
Proceeds from the trade function as a powerful force pulling the country apart by corrupting local officials, strengthening regional warlords who defy the central government and financing an increasingly violent Taliban insurgency.
It is worth noting, too, that while the bank remains under attack by hedge funds, it continues to provide a sales and trading function that remains popular with this very type of investor.
As a writer and actor, Mr. Caan seems more comfortable with men than with women; the scenes between him and Mr. Hatosy, in which the insults they trade function as a kind of secret code for their deep attachment, are deftly and movingly sketched.
"If Dynegy and Enron were to get together, obviously the thing that would appeal to Dynegy would be to combine the trading function of the two entities, and that in itself would provide greater market power, not less market power," said Raymond Plank, chairman of the Apache Corporation, one of the largest independent natural gas producers, based in Houston.
