Yet the contractor had agreed to provide insurance at a fixed price as part of the deal.
The silver obtained at a fixed price is sold at market rates which exposes it to the daily volatility of silver prices.
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The way most deals are arranged, investors get stock or convertible debt at a fixed price that is lower than the market price.
Like Bitcoin, the world's dollars, euros, yen and pesos carry no guarantees they can be redeemed for gold or some other commodity at a fixed price.
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The gold exchange aspect of the BWS was one way, foreign members could exchange their dollar for gold (at a fixed price) but not the other way around.
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Companies can sell their production forward at a fixed price.
Stock options allow someone to buy stock at a fixed price, which, in the case of Cheney, can be below what the trading price is at the time the option is exercised.
An option to buy their companies' shares at a fixed price gives directors an incentive to push up the share price, bringing the interests of management and shareholders more closely into line.
Actually, the closest the world came to the restoration of the pre-1914 gold standard began with the Roosevelt move in 1934, resuming an international guarantee of the dollar at a fixed price in gold.
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CatEputs (short for Catastrophe Equity Put Option) are derivative contracts that give the insured the right to sell new shares at a fixed price, which the investor promises to buy in the event of a catastrophe.
Options, which are a right to purchase shares at a future time at a fixed price, can be a form of compensation to be used by cash-strapped companies to hire key employees they could not otherwise afford.
Customers sign up to a 12 month plan at a fixed monthly price.
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The company has the right to purchase all or a portion of the silver production at a low fixed price for an upfront payment pursuant to any agreement.
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Most convertible securities allow the buyer to convert into common stock at a fixed conversion price set at a modest premium to wherever the common is trading at the time the convertible security is issued.
The crux of the Premier League's concern is that ESPN will now lose its incentive to bid in the next round of auctions because it will have the option of buying content from Sky, at a fixed wholesale price, but that seems unlikely.
So Mr Dewar thinks it is time to abolish quasi-feudal rights and to give tenants of large estates the right to buy the land at a price fixed by the government when the landlord decides to sell.
At this stage, the Scottish government has not fixed a unit price.
Fixed at uneconomic rates, these price controls amount to a default on Argentina's contractual obligations to the utility companies, many of them foreign-owned.
The nation's courts, acting on their own, ordered seizure of wholesale stocks and fixed a third price, for retail sugar, at 40 rupees per kilo, which was half the price in neighboring Afghanistan.
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