Activities include real estate investment, consulting and trading.

The areas affected include trading, sales, floor personnel and general support staff.

Its main activities include fund management, proprietary trading, floor brokerage and margin lending.

But revenue from principal transactions, which include trading, fell 19 percent, to $603 million.

In favors for big customers that included late trading and market timing, for starters.

Its operations also include international trading in steel, metals and oil.

Main activities in Alta include trading, small industry, education, and public service.

Principal-transactions revenue, which includes trading for the firm's own account, rose 87 percent from a year earlier, to $705 million.

Other economic activities include small-scale trading, brewing of banana beer and logging.

The livelihood of most citizens includes farming, fishing, and local trading.