1.   Every trade took a holiday on the day of its patron saint.

2.   The first pollution futures market, trading in permits to pollute, has opened for business in Chicago, where the first trade in permits took place last year.

3.   This may mean that, though the trade took place across the floor, it had been covertly agreed beforehand.

4.   Because most stock trades take place outside official markets, prices on the Prague Stock Exchange often vary widely from the prices investors are paying.

5.   A lively and friendly drug trade quickly took root.

6.   After you read this, you may understand why the trade took so long to complete.

7.   Both teams are probably glad the trade never took place, especially the Bulls.

8.   But a new entrepreneurial trade has taken its place and is growing fast.

9.   But not even Sather knows when that trade might take place.