The SAT is a standardized test administered by the College Board, a non-profit organization that runs other programs including the PSAT (Preliminary SAT), AP (Advanced Placement) and CLEP (College-Level Examination Project). The letters SAT originally stood for the Scholastic Aptitude Test.
Forex: World's Biggest Market A Relative Newcomer. Forex is the largest and most liquid market in the world. In 2010, it accounted for more than $3 trillion of daily trading. Yet, oddly enough, this market didn't exist a century ago. Unlike stock markets, which can trace their roots back centuries, the forex market as we understand it today is a truly new market.
1 Royal Ahold N.V., the big Dutch grocery retailer, said yesterday that it had agreed to buy the Stop and Shop Companies, the largest supermarket chain in New England, for $1.8 billion in cash. The deal would make Royal Ahold, which posted revenues of $18 billion last year, the fifth-largest supermarket chain in the United States and the biggest food retailer east of the Mississippi River.