John Jacob Astor to establish an American emporium for the fur
trade at the mouth of the Columbia, or Oregon River; of the failure of that enterprise through the capture of Astoria by the British, in 1814; and of the way in which the control of the trade of the Columbia and its dependencies fell into the hands of the Northwest Company.
"The old trade-through rule required that fast-trading markets would have to halt if they would
trade at prices inferior to those seemingly available at floor-based markets," Harris explains.
Highlight the rationale for
trade at a consumer level.
Family crises, including deaths, loss of land, and unpaid school fees, have most often propelled women to move from occasional
trade at rural markets to more full-time trade in Nairobi.
Unfortunately, free traders have not been making the case for free
trade at home.
Beyond all this, it is debatable whether NAFTA will further free
trade at all.
A host of announcements by ECNs and brokerage firms allowing retail investors to
trade at off-hours has proliferated in recent months.