Sentence examples for trading interests from inspiring English sources

Rather, China recognised that its trading interests were best served by progress.

Trading interests soon interfered with the empire's alliance with the maritime powers of Britain and the Dutch Republic.

The Japanese were becoming aware of competition between the Jesuits and the Franciscans and between Spanish and Portuguese trading interests.

As minister for the Cook Islands (1916 28), Pomare helped to improve the islands' educational and legal systems and fought monopoly trading interests.

A clash between East Asia's second-largest economy and its fourth-largest would do huge collateral damage, not least to financial and trading interests the world over.

Marvellous though it is to hear him denounce North Korea as hell on earth, presidents have to head off conflict with rogue states and advance America's trading interests.

In other Thursday trading, interest rates rose.

The decline in revenue from trading interest rates came despite a decision to take more risk over the last year.

Burke truly said, in a debate in 1770, "There is no such thing as the landed interest separate from the trading interest".

Ruth Porat, the bank's chief financial officer, told analysts that the firm reduced the risk it was taking trading interest rate products.

For all of 2003, public firms' profits --from trading, interest, commission and banking income -- more than doubled to $10.9 billion from $4.5 billion in 2002.