Corrected for deflation and on a trade-weighted basis, including trading partners such as Switzerland with robust currencies, the yen has been relatively flat since the 1980s, according to a Bank of Japan analysis.
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On a price-to-sales basis, the stock is trading in line with the peer group average of 2.57x.
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On a price-to-book basis, shares are currently trading at 2.7x, a 28.6% premium to the peer group average of 2.1x.
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What's more, RVBD has bested the SPX by nearly 49% on a relative-strength basis during the past 60 trading days.
Technically speaking HRS has outperformed the SPX by nearly 40% on a relative-strength basis during the past 60 trading sessions.
However, on a price-to-book basis, shares are currently trading at 2.95x, a 50.5% premium to the peer group average of 1.96x.
But that would require a commonly agreed pricing mechanism and confidence that power producers were not trading on the basis of inside information.
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Any time a security jumps in price on high volume without a fundamental basis for doing so, trading becomes nothing more than a game of hot potato.
But there is still a fierce debate about whether these movements are predictable enough for investors to make money trading on the basis of expected price changes.
In the meantime, a physical-platinum trader said whereas the metal has been hurt by speculative trading on the basis of worries about future auto demand, actual industrial demand so far has been somewhat resilient.
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The two-year British gilt yielded 1.62%, adding four basis points from Friday's trading, while the 10-year bond yielded 3.17%, up from 3.13%.
On a price-to-sales and price-to-book basis as well, the stock is trading at premiums to industry averages.
The group's stockbroking arm, MBf Northern Securities, can now buy securities only on a cash basis because it has not squared some trading positions.
Since offsetting is done on a voluntary basis, unlike the mandatory carbon-trading systems that have been imposed on some industries in some countries, such doubts may put people off doing it altogether.
She decided that the authorities had let the society continue trading "on an unsound basis" since 1990, thus letting the public be misled into thinking the society was solvent when it was not.
Despite the fact that Williams was one of the only companies to have reported its 2000 energy-trading revenues on the conservative basis used by financial firms (as the chart shows), its shares took a beating.
Last month its five-year debentures were trading at a yield of 30 basis points over Japanese government bonds.
The Office of Fair Trading made the referral on the basis that the market was not working well for motorists.
At the end of trading in July, less than two weeks ago, the curve was trading with a gradient of 250 basis points.
Regulators are supporting new trading systems but a 30-basis point stamp tax, payable by the seller, is likely to more than compensate for official words of encouragement.
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The two-year Greek note was trading at a spread of 807 basis points over the comparable German issue versus a spread, or gap, of 733 basis points Monday.
Trading remains choppy on a daily basis.
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Shares of RS have been trading in bull market territory on a consistent basis since mid-December, and are also short-term overbought.
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The market has swung 11 percent in either direction during the next month of trading and the average gain is only 80 basis points.
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Shares of COST have been trading in bull market territory on a consistent basis since mid-August, and rallied to a 52-week high at the beginning of the week.
The law denies inside information only to the layman, who is expected to invest on the basis of technical analysis (the voodooistic interpretation of past trading patterns), Keynesian economic astrology, quarterly earnings reports known to the world and other trading trivia.
Municipal bonds are two-to-four basis points weaker at maturities between 2023-2041 in quiet trading conditions.
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In the secondary market, yields on 10-year Italian government bonds fell 42 basis points to 6.04%, according to electronic trading platform Tradeweb.
Trading remains choppy on a day-to-day basis but the bulls still enjoy the overall technical advantage.
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