They all limit price swings by hedging bets on stocks--often at a hefty price.
Some companies may want to limit initial price gains more than others.
Publications and prepaid phone and transit cards would continue to be exempt from the price limit.
Ofcom decided that the price limit would be linked to the rise allowed for regular second-class stamps.
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Sporadic interventions to limit house-price speculation may even be counterproductive because they discourage people from building more homes.
In addition, in order to limit drug-price inflation, the law limited increases in ASP to six percent every six months.
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If the spread is wider than a few cents, you can also set the price limit somewhere in the middle, though at the risk of not getting the order filled.
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There is no minimum limit on the price you paid for the goods, but generally you need to register your claim within 120 days of the date you bought the goods or placed the deposit on the card.
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Ofcom, which has taken over regulation from Postcomm, has made the proposals to remove price caps on first-class stamps and raise the price limit on second class to as much as 55p owing to "huge changes" in the industry.
Peggy Post disagrees with putting a price limit on a wedding gift ("There's no such thing as a dollar amount, " she says), but she does suggest basing the amount you spend on your affection for the bride and groom and their family.
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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During the session, the share price was suspended limit-down, an automatic suspension system which kicks in when a share price is showing excessive volatility.
The government will then set a floor price and an upper limit for at least the first three years to avoid excessive price fluctuations.
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Then it should announce an upper limit for the gold price and use Open Market operations to contract bank reserves as needed to enforce this ceiling price.
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In such sales, the key issue for traders is to sell as quickly as possible so they can limit their losses before the price of the commodity falls even further.
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Rather than shifting or shedding load, the principal response strategy for customers receiving service under MHP rates has been to enter power-supply contracts with third-party ESCOs that limit their exposure to daily price fluctuations.
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Traders say investors should always use limit orders, which specify the price at which they are willing to buy or sell.
Under our system, once a stock is in the portfolio, we will hold until it hits the target price or the upside limit.
By pushing up the offering price to its upper limit and by expanding the offering to allow more insiders to cash out, they broke the spell that momentum casts over investors.
But nevertheless, they also look for physical demand to offer some support, although much of this may tend to come in the form of buying on price dips that helps limit any corrections.
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But in an ideologically divided nation like ours, a party must expend political capital to enact major change (i.e. the Democrats loss of the House after passing health care reform and stimulus spending.) Our polling shows the Tea Party is paying a price for the debt limit battle it initiated.
And, by the way, IPOs typically limit sales of shares at the initial price to a chosen few.
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If the dollar index can begin a fresh near-term price uptrend, that would limit gains in the precious metals.
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An alternative to a plain stop order is a stop-limit order, which includes a minimum price at which you want to sell the stock.
All this clearly goes far beyond the issue of price stability, which is the limit of the Bank's legal responsibility.
Republicans must demand no less than such pro-growth tax reform as the price for their agreement in the next debt limit round.
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In theory, a discretionary central bank could limit the quantity of money and achieve long-run price stability by controlling the growth of nominal final demand.
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Once Apple and Amazon have taken their cut, publishers are likely to make less money on e-books under this new arrangement than under the wholesale one a price they seem willing to pay in order to limit Amazon's influence and bolster print sales.
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Large companies need ways to limit their exposure to volatile fossil fuel prices, which affect the price of electricity.
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