After the auction is over, crank out receipts: assigned value for the donors, excess of bid price over assigned value to buyers.
The most important issue, of course, will be whether the new bid provides more value to NYSE Euronext shareholders.
In a bid to unlock value, ConocoPhillips is planning to spin off its refining and marketing operation to shareholders as a new publicly-traded company.
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While we believe that the total value of this bid is in the right direction of where this value should be, additional discussions will still need to be held with Brookfield should they and we wish to pursue a revised offer.
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"We made a strong bid that reflected the value of the rights to our business, and we thank the Premier League for the chance to participate, " said an ESPN spokesman.
Citigroup (C) is a good example of a financial stock being bid up past its true value.
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Qwest is even now reportedly considering a third bid, perhaps raising the value of the deal and offering yet more of it in cash.
There are many rounds of bidding and market participants value each potential bid differently based on their own technology, their own spectrum holdings, and how they foresee building out the spectrum.
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Neither Mr Aurandt nor Guernsey Museums Director Dr Jason Monaghan would divulge the value of the winning bid.
Hull BID said traders received "excellent value for the levy".
By the time new money and credit has passed through many hands, it has lost substantial value as prices are bid up, people find that their purchasing power lags behind consumer price increases, and their living standards fall.
Department of Labor wanted the measure of damage to be the presumptive premium in fair market value that the pending takeover bid had created.
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And in a little notice change, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has greatly expanded the value of the existing no-bid contracts.
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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It said the BBC's bid for the rights was higher than their commercial value.
" LSE Chairman Chris Gibson-Smith said Macquarie's 580 pence per share bid, launched in December, provided "no value today and reflects no value tomorrow.
If the team can't market the media rights, prospective bidders will have to guess at their value and may not be inclined to bid as high.
Businesses in Hull city centre are obliged to pay a levy of 1% of the rateable value of their property to fund the Hull BID project.
The markets would bid for the offerings based upon their estimates of the present value of the promised dividend streams.
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The government said in June that the Siemens bid to build 1, 200 train carriages represented the best value for money, and that it was following EU procurement rules, which do not allow where companies are based to be taken into account.
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Now you could be faced with two demands: potential sellers could realize that they are under pricing their wares and dramatically raise the price, or potential buyers could quickly bid up a toy to something that approaches its fair market value or beyond, creating a bubble.
Sheffield Chamber of Commerce said all businesses protected by the new flood defences would become part of the BID, and would have to make payments based on their rateable value over a period of five years.
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At face value it looks harmless enough: news organisations will have to bid for space on the two public television channels.
But when a collective judgment is reached that a particular asset class has been bid up too high, dollars are pulled and the asset class shrinks in value.
Murdoch made what seemed like a sort of preposterous offer for the company, offering two thirds over what was then the stock value for the company a month ago when he made this unsolicited bid.
For example, again thanks to Big Data, every Web ad you will soon see on Facebook and across the Web will have been bid upon in real time by advertisers who will pay based upon your perceived value as a potential customer.
Eligible businesses within the BID footprint will pay a levy of 1% of their non-domestic rateable value annually.
The cash bid values each Racal share at 450 pence, 4.7% higher than the value of Racal shares on Wednesday.
Last week, his company submitted a second bid, changing the terms to offer more cash upfront and including a clause that guarantees the value of the deal if Qwest's stock price sinks.
The electorate hesitates to accept flat taxes and the like at face value: Steve Forbes, flat-taxer par excellence, got nowhere in his bid for the presidency in 1996, while Bob Dole's proposal for a 15% cut in tax rates was ridiculed.
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