mercantile business

基本解釋

In a long life of mercantile business, I have never met with an instance of this kind before.
在漫長的商貿(mào)生涯中，我從未遇到過像今天這樣的事。
In 1972 a former lawyer named Leo Melamed was clever enough to see a business in this and launched currency futures on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.
在1972年，一個(gè)名叫Leo Melamed的律師聰明的想到這有生意可做，并在芝加哥期貨市場開始進(jìn)行貨幣期貨交易。

This puts our technical outlook in an odd position this week as it seems a large portion of the day traders surrounding the Chicago Mercantile Exchange has yet to return to business as usual.
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And judging from the record volume on the New York Mercantile Exchange lately, there's plenty of business for the survivors.
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Through an arrangement earlier this year with the New York Mercantile Exchange, the Merc also has a growing business in electronic-trading energy futures, a booming business.
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