But critics say that practice results in low-margin sometimes even unprofitable sales as dealers chase sales bonuses tied to volume-based targets.
Mann also noted that ETF market makers are participating in equity markets freshly rebuilt on volume-based incentives, not exactly the kind of bait that would attract long-term holders in passive index investments.
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Given all these platforms, the highest volume belongs to Intel-based operating systems.
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Moreover, slightly more than half the total dollar volume of U.S.-based deals was accounted for by one deal General Motors and many of the IPOs in the United States were actually done by Chinese companies.
Also driving the mergers: the need to boost listings, a core source of revenue for the exchanges as they battle to preserve their share of trading volume against competition from new market entrants like Kansas City-based BATS Trading, which siphons about 8% of Nasdaq's daily volume and 5% of NYSE volume.
With support from Norway, UNESCO published a 2-volume book in the Mayangna language based on their indigenous knowledge of the natural world.
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What they found is that about 3% of the total volume of Mars is capable of supporting Earth-based lifeforms.
By feeding hundreds of sample sounds into the system, the software can distinguish different threats from various sounds - and not just based on volume.
The index is proportionally weighted based on foreign-exchange trading volume data from the Bank for International Settlements' triennial central-bank survey on global foreign-exchange market activity.
Policymakers may argue that 2012 could be the tipping point when our largest online retailers realize that e-commerce transactions deserve location-based taxation simply due to the volume and impact on our economy.
Yet executives at the Battle Creek, Michigan-based company clung stubbornly to the notion that Kellogg was still number one--in cereal volume.
There is a technical risk that Hormel is in the midst of forming a rounding top, based on slightly increasing volume during the late-December retracement.
In that same year, Cultiba was the only producer and distributor of beverages in Mexico with nationwide operations and was the country's second-largest beverage company based on combined sales volume of soft drinks and water.
Louis, attributed the drop to price decreases for Roundup and other glyphosate-based herbicides, which were not offset by volume growth.
The main reason behind the decrease in spam volume is the overall heightened level of anti-spam protection, says the Moscow based junk mail and cyber crime fighting Kaspersky Lab.
Merrill copes by switching many clients to fee-based accounts, making its revenue a function of assets rather than of trading volume.
Volume does not always equate to value or quality however, and many U.S.-based firms prefer keeping certain operations in-house altogether to avoid any risk.
In 1995 the federal government decreed so-called Order 58-R, which set the volume of oil exports and obligated the Moscow Oil Refinery to build a factory for processing polypropylene-based chemicals, financed by petroleum revenues over a ten-year period.
Many MLPs have a degree of insulation from commodity price volatility thanks to long-term deals with customers for leasing out storage facilities and pipeline deals that are based on volume of throughput rather than the price of it.
Monster had 36.8% of the U.S. retail market for energy drinks last year by volume, ahead of Austria's Red Bull GmbH, with 29.9%, and Las Vegas-based Rockstar Inc.
Based on my discussions with European carriers, I believe we are heading to double-digit handset volume declines in Europe in 3Q12.
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