This has profound implications for equilibrium gas prices, including the idea that gas should sell for some fixed proportion to oil based on the Btu value of the two fuels.
Final salary schemes, which guarantee a pension equivalent to a fixed proportion of workers' final wages, provide a more generous retirement income than defined contribution schemes, which are tied to stock market performance.
If you want action, pick a service company with a lot of operating leverage, or high fixed costs in proportion to revenue.
Most Britons, for instance, still have variable-rate mortgages, although the proportion with fixed-rate home loans is rising (thanks, in part, to lower inflation).
As a proportion of total fixed-assets investment the figures suggest little change (14% to 16%).
These former monopolies have clung on to a large proportion of the fixed lines that they ran under state control.
This shall contribute to a rise in Equity and Fixed Income Markets at the expense of decline in the proportion of Bank Credit in the total Debt Markets in the economies.
Moreover, in addition to the 25% of homeowners with negative equity, a similar proportion have insufficient positive equity to refinance their high fixed-rate mortgages.
Leeds Building Society credited some of its success on the savings front to the popularity of its fixed rate bonds, which allowed customers unlimited access to a proportion of their money without penalty during the product's term.
Under a production-sharing contract, an oil company would recoup its costs and then be entitled to a proportion of the oil extracted, instead of being paid a fixed fee for each barrel.
Even though investment as a proportion of GDP is high, China's accumulated investment in fixed assets is still low.
In 2008-2010, the prepaid phone market grew as a proportion of the overall handset market as many consumers opted out of long-term contracts that carried a fixed monthly plan.
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