Now, more on something that Congressman Blunt alluded to, how do you place a value on a mortgage-backed security when there's no market for it?
While the built-in leverage of options serves to produce magnified returns, investors should note that these options do trade on expected forward value and can deviate from the spot VIX.
For example, where it is well-known that the majority of public acquisitions destroy value, research by professor Laurence Capron from INSEAD shows that private deals, on average, do create value.
How do you put a value on that service?
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But while Peek likely won't have to do as much proselytizing on the value of wireless e-mail access as RIM did for many years, it will need to get out its message like any new brand and idea.
For example, how much money leaks through your spending on items you truly do not value?
And yeah, the millions of photos shared on Facebook do indeed comprise real value in terms of what might keep consumers from leaving.
Unlike many other companies in the realm of data science, Pentaho is focused on what users do to get value from data and how to make it easier, and it shows in their product.
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Apple ( AAPL - news - people ) in an increasingly quality-oriented app world, not a browser world, then you have to do something to move up on the value scale, " says Doctor, adding: "It seems to me that part of Google's strategic thinking is that it is becoming a more quality-oriented news world.
Let such low margin, low value things be made by poor people elsewhere while we concentrate on the high value, difficult to do, things.
For example, what do your customers place the most value on: Product quality?
Overall, valuation factors do have an impact on small-cap value returns.
Imagine if we could do things on Facebook that had real monetary value or, taken in the aggregate, made us feel less like productized users and more as collaborative members?
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If advisors focused on adding value beyond what they're getting paid to do, and then focused on how they can help their clients and their friends, the outcomes would be very different.
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From the initial phases of his model, you could discover value by accident when you do not have a plan for the type of value you receive but on experimentation discover something useful.
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How do you plan on taking advantage of the new value that ideas can generate?
As the value of the dollar falls, their reserves of the currency also reduce in value, as do the yields on the US Treasury bonds held by many of their central banks.
So even when the poor do spend more on food, they do not buy the stuff that is most nutritious or the best value.
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Do you use Zillow.com to check on the value of homes of people you know?
For we do not have just the one tax, on rental value of land, which is undistortionary then all other taxes are distortionary to the same degree.
Patriarchs add value in two ways that do not appear on balance-sheets, says Mr Fan.
According to Phil Mirvis a global expert on CSR companies still do not fully understand the real value from CSR.
Explaining what they do tick by tick on a continuous basis has as much value as trying to come up with a rational explanation why the ball landed on the 9 on the roulette table in Bellagio instead of 10.
What value do you think it may have going forward on the upswing as the economy goes forward?
That do-good pitch could persuade donors to accept a haircut on value.
However, to do so they may have to accept a large loss on the legitimate value of the stones.
Much of what consumers collectively place great value on in the marketplace has astonishingly little to do with intelligence as we understand it.
But high-stakes standardized testing actually pushes these schools to destroy themselves, wiping out the programs that actually do deliver value to these high-aptitude students and instead focusing on teaching to the tests.
The push is still in focusing on comparative advantage, doing the value-added thing you do best.
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Companies looking to maximize their returns on otherwise idle cash would do better by thinking in terms of the value that cash can create.
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