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He points out that HFT already accounts for half of total turnover in some debt and foreign-exchange markets, and that it is dominant in US equity markets, accounting for more than one-third of daily trading, up from less than one-fifth in 2005.
In fact, education accounts for just 10% of total international development aid, down from 13% a decade ago.
Never mind that America's bilateral trade deficit with China, even including Hong Kong, accounts for less than one-fifth of the total US deficit: growing imports from China and more direct investment by US companies supposedly fueled US unemployment.
Real-estate investment now accounts for 15% of China’s GDP, compared to less than 5% in 2000; when related industries like steel and cement are taken into account, that figure rises to one-third of China’s GDP.
In the Congo, the profits of mining companies helped maintain the late President Mobuto of Zaire, now the Congo, in power for decades--enabling him to pillage his country, allegedly facilitated by the secret bank accounts that are the specialty of countries like Switzerland, the Cayman Islands, and Cyprus.
Rule III: Raise the Gasoline TaxIran’s quest to dominate the Middle East threatens the world because the region accounts for so much of the oil on which the global economy depends.
Why was the book so well received, and what accounts for its author’s second thoughts?
(The “foreign funding” that the foundation receives – the reason it was flagged – comes, according to Zimin, from his own bank accounts.)
One of these is protecting forests, since deforestation accounts for 17% of emissions.
Agricultural production accounts for half of anthropogenic methane, but wastewater systems, landfills, and coal mining also create the gas.
Lady Macbeth of PyongyangTOKYO – North Korea’s communist regime is, by most accounts, set to complete its second dynastic transfer of power, this time from Kim Jong-il, who has ruled since 1994, to his youngest son, Kim Jong-eun.
They mimic bank accounts by allowing investors to write checks and promise that their investment’s value will not fall.
As a result of the SEC’s inaction, money-market funds will continue to operate outside the scope of bank-style rules on capital and reserves, even though investors treat them like bank accounts.
With well-defined constraints, a clear path for developing innovative technologies – one that accounts for both the known and the unknown – can be planned.
Such an outcome would have three profound implications for the economic outlook: First, since consumer demand still accounts for 71% of real GDP, a protracted shortfall in trend consumption represents a major headwind for overall US economic growth.
Although competitiveness within the eurozone would be unaffected, a weaker euro would significantly improve the external balance with the rest of the world, which accounts for about half of eurozone trade.
When they go out, spend money, see friends, they are still expected to render accounts.
The current accounts of all southern eurozone countries are improving rapidly and, with the possible exception of Greece, will soon swing into surplus.
As a result, these countries’ current accounts are now moving into surplus, and their external solvency is improving rapidly.
Furthermore, despite its large geothermal and solar energy potential, Africa accounts for only 1.3% of the world's installed solar facilities, and only four countries have started exploiting underground heat sources.
True, falling demand for natural resources in China (which accounts for nearly half of global demand for base metals) has had a lot to do with the sharp declines in these prices, which have hit many developing and emerging economies in Latin America and Africa hard.
Understandably, Gates finds this situation, in which the US accounts for 75% of NATO’s military spending, completely “unacceptable.”
Samsung Electronics is the largest chaebol, and accounts for 20% of total exports.
Given that Africa now accounts for just 1% of America’s $350 billion textile and apparel market, there is plenty of room for expansion.
America spends close to 4% of its GDP on defense, and accounts for some 70% of total military spending by all NATO members.
The first is that the French have accounts to settle with their president and the government.
After the election, the intelligence agencies described the actions Russia had taken: hacking into the email accounts of the Democratic National Committee and of Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman; arranging for embarrassing emails to be made public through Wikileaks; and purveying “fake news.”
Dzhokhar, now 19, was only eight years old when the family moved to the US – settling in Cambridge, Massachusetts – and by many accounts he was a reasonably well-adjusted American-immigrant.
These efforts will culminate at the Warsaw Summit, where NATO should establish a new strategic outlook that accounts for the complex and diffuse security challenges affecting its southern flank.
India relies on external trade for less than 20% of its GDP; its large and robust internal market accounts for the rest.
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