mercantile business

基本解释

In a long life of mercantile business, I have never met with an instance of this kind before.
在漫长的商贸生涯中，我从未遇到过像今天这样的事。
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，一个名叫Leo Melamed的律师聪明的想到这有生意可做，并在芝加哥期货市场开始进行货币期货交易。

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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