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  2. European Union Emissions Trading System - Wikipedia

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    The European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) is a carbon emission trading scheme (or cap and trade scheme) that began in 2005 and is intended to lower greenhouse gas emissions in the EU. Cap and trade schemes limit emissions of specified pollutants over an area and allow companies to trade emissions rights within that area.

  3. Investment management - Wikipedia

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    In stock and futures trading, money management plays an important role in every success of a trading system. This is closely related with trading expectancy: “Expectancy” which is the average amount you can expect to win or lose per dollar at risk. Mathematically: Expectancy = (Trading system Winning probability * Average Win) – (Trading ...

  4. Michael Wekerle - Wikipedia

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    In his role with GMP as vice-chairman of trading, he was closely involved with the 1997 initial public offering of Research in Motion. [ 3 ] [ 5 ] Wekerle left Griffiths McBurney in 2011 by mutual consent, receiving a severance package in return for agreeing to a non-compete clause.

  5. Empower (financial services) - Wikipedia

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    Empower was created in 1891, when parent company Great-West Lifeco was founded as an insurance provider on the Canadian prairie. [1] After serving more than a century of expansion and a profound evolution of service offerings, the modern iteration of Empower was launched in 2014, when the retirement businesses of Great-West Life combined the record-keeping services of Great-West Financial ...

  6. Bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers - Wikipedia

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    Putnam Investments, a unit of Canada's Great-West Lifeco, shut a $12.3 billion money-market fund as it faced "significant redemption pressure" on September 17, 2008. Evergreen Investments said its parent Wachovia Corporation would "support" three Evergreen money-market funds to prevent their shares from falling. [39]

  7. Nikola Tesla - Wikipedia

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    Tesla's rebuilt birth house (parish hall) and the church where his father served in Smiljan, Croatia.The site was made into a museum about him. [8]Nikola Tesla was born into an ethnic Serb family in the village of Smiljan, within the Military Frontier, in the Austrian Empire (present-day Croatia), on 10 July 1856.

  8. GTS (company) - Wikipedia

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    Global Trading Systems, which uses the trade name GTS, is an American proprietary trading and market making firm headquartered in New York. The firm accounts for 3 to 5 percent of the daily turnover of US equities and has handled over 250 IPO listings since 2013.

  9. Petrodollar recycling - Wikipedia

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    Especially during the years 1974–1981 and 2005–2014, oil exporters amassed large surpluses of "petrodollars" from the sale of oil at historically high prices. [1] [2] [8] (The word has been credited alternately to Egyptian-American economist Ibrahim Oweiss and to former U.S. Secretary of Commerce Peter G. Peterson, both in 1973.) [9] [10] [11] These petrodollar surpluses could be described ...