Buy now and spread out your lease over three 10-month periods, with only 30% of your total obligation due in 2012.
It's become normal for people to buy online and the spread of the online buying culture means it has become very democratic.
But this is now drying up, because new rules imposed by the Securities and Exchange Commission have shrunk the profits that market makers earn on the spread between buy and sell prices.
Like all brokerage fees, the APT tax establishes a spread between the buy and sell price of every transaction.
Thinking about the mechanics of selling a put spread, you would buy the nearer term and sell the farther term options.
The good news is that the interest goes back into your account and the payments for a loan used to buy a home can often be spread over a longer time period than a regular loan.
In order to have a corresponding ounce-to-ounce spread trade in the futures market, a trader who is looking for the spread to narrow would buy two 50-ounce platinum futures contracts and simultaneously sell one 100-ounce gold futures contract.
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Selerity alerted clients, who were able to buy gasoline futures contracts before the news spread widely and caused prices to soar, says Mr. Terpstra.
On return visits he started collecting old cigar molds (he now owns 200) and old books, pamphlets and dissertations, going door to door in Havana to buy them up--until word spread of the crazy gringo and prices shot up.
Instead of charging a fixed transaction fee for clearing the rights, Corbis tries to buy low and sell high, capturing the spread as revenue.
That suggests many could buy some time, reducing deficits more gradually so as to spread out the hit to growth.
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Since both funds are country-specific, Brown advises that a decent way to spread the risk and capture returns may be to buy T.
Citron and Levine also noted that marketmakers were failing to match buy and sell orders that didn't give them their accustomed spread.
Whether this motley crew of football fans, city spread betters and online poker addicts can be persuaded to buy the same paper every day will determine if the Sportsman's horse comes in.
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If you buy wine the best bottles will come from a single vineyard as you spread out to the region and then the country the price and quality drops.
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Mortgage REITs borrow short-term or adjustable-rate money (the federal funds rate has plunged from 6.5% in January to 3.5% today) and use it to buy longer-term mortgages or mortgage-backed securities, playing the spread between the two sets of interest rates.
Eight19, a start-up spun out of Cambridge University, has a similar model in which small payments, like those used to buy kerosene, allow the purchase of a solar-lighting system to be spread out.
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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"They don't make the population immune, but they buy you time, either by preventing influenza from getting into the community or slowing down the spread, " Markel said.
For older movies, that spread drops to twice the rental fee--attractive enough for some consumers to buy the movie outright rather than have to return it in seven days.
You could, instead, get a 30-year fixed mortgage for 5.9% (reduced after tax to 3.5%) and buy a portfolio of 30-year munis yielding 4.7%, which would give you a spread of 120 basis points.
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