The maker of ketchup, bagel bites and a host of other products, surged more than 20% in pre-market trading to above the bid price.
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The bid price is 6.6% higher than the closing price on 30 December, the last business day before the two companies confiirmed they were in talks.
The price-to-sales metric of 0.43x at the bid price does not fall below the historical range of price-to-sales, but it is near the low end of the range of 0.37x to 0.72x.
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"The bid price values Mannesmann fairly and first impressions are that it is not unduly dilutive to Vodafone shareholders, providing the management can achieve the synergies they expect, " said Graham Wood, head of UK and European Equities and Standard Life Investments.
Investors hungry for a piece of the action bid the price up before the stock began trading at noon yesterday.
As of last week, Clyde Union Pumps (formerly Weir Pumps) has been added to the long list, and Dundee's diagnostics firm Axis-Shield is resisting a takeover bid from the US - at least at the current bid price.
Dark pools are known for cutting costs as some venues allow trading at the midpoint between the bid and the ask price.
If they auctioned them off, they would sell for above par value, because the market would bid up the price of these securities until they yielded perhaps 0.02%.
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But the Chinese firm will be hard put to run Slavneft without local cooperation which makes some observers suspect it is really only in the auction to bid up the price.
Predictably, short-seller advocacy groups lamented the toughness and cost burdens of the new regulations, under which a trader wanting to short a particular stock has to find a price above the prevailing national best bid and offer price if the stock has already fallen 10% or more from the previous trading session.
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The best way to protect yourself is to use limit orders when placing an order to buy or sell a stock or an exchange-traded fund. (See How Your Buy and Sell Orders Get Filled for more.) Look at the bid-ask spread and set your price limit at the bid for selling a stock and at the ask for buying a stock.
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So the bid and ask price will be the same as it would be on an exchange.
They would probably bid the price of gold above the benchmark price once this policy achieves credibility.
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By creating a tax wedge between the bid and ask price of financial assets, the APT tax provides incentives to lengthen the average holding period of financial instruments.
All three names probably belonged to the same person, who was using multiple identities to bid up the price of his goods--a case of shilling that auctioneers punish by removing sellers from their sites.
Its algorithms can suggest the best price to bid for keywords, based on where the ad will appear on the results page and how many other bidders are present, factoring in constantly changing auction prices.
The offer was a 20% premium to the market price and the highest bid but by spending only a week considering it, and apparently deferring too much to Lyondell's chief executive, the court said directors might have opened themselves up to personal liability.
In that case, investors may bid the stock price up higher than cash flows from the business because the company owns an asset (gold hammers) that is worth far more than a typical hammer (the gold can be sold and traded for regular hammers with a huge surplus).
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Despite determined efforts by the auctioneer, Henry Wyndham, it raised just one lacklustre bid at the reserve price, selling to Franck Giraud, a New York-based dealer.
For years, this is what happened if you wanted to buy or sell a Nasdaq stock: Your buy order went to a market making firm, which charged you the offer side of the market, pocketing the difference between that price and the lower bid.
Now oil companies have simply bid up the price of RINs instead of buying ethanol.
Management capability is also identified as a reason investors will bid up the price of a stock.
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So when people are afraid, they bid up the price of investments that are perceived to be safe.
Last month, Elan said its board unanimously rejected the takeover bid, with company leaders saying the price was too low.
For why compete and bid up the price of labour when you can just grab some more off the street?
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Investors have bid up the price of US bonds since the financial crisis, and when bond prices increase their interest rates decrease.
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There are some folks who very much want to hold these specific assets and will bid up the price of the remaining assets thereby lowering their interest rate.
So long as any investors are able to mix enough shares into a portfolio to diversify away specific company risk, they will bid up the price of those shares until they reflect only market risk.
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