Roper says mark-to-market accounting makes it possible for investors to trust what companies report about themselves.
In an odd twist, the current regulation doesn't require mark-to-market accounting in every situation.
Within the past few weeks, two government agencies issued competing "clarifications" of the mark-to-market rule.
With the market value plummeting, he argued, mark-to-market accounting turned AIG's balance sheet into a nightmare.
Under mark-to-market, banks value assets as if they were going to sell them now.
In a mark-to-market system, the value of loans would fluctuate according to changes in interest rates.
Now meat processors are pinning their hopes on the Senate mark-up of the farm bill.
The result of what this mark-to-market process will look like this year is unclear.
This partially offsets the mark-to-market drain on regulatory capital and helps hold the financial system together.
Conferees involved in the final mark-up of the bill have reportedly strengthened the original bill.
"That is something that we have available, " Ms. Mark-Viverito, a potential candidate to succeed Ms. Quinn.
Tilton says she has independent third-party loan-pricing firms like Mark-It and LoanX verifying her loan values.
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Later, Goldman and Lehman dumped the Greek bonds, setting off a mark-to-market bomb around Europe.
Three years ago, the Royal Opera House approached composer Mark-Anthony Turnage to write a new work.
It's now, in fact, under a degree of attack because of the complaints about mark-to-market accounting.
Fred Thompson during the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence's mark-up of that legislation last month.
So, too, would a cut in the retail mark-up charged by the state-owned dollar stores.
The bosses of the firms insist that the mark-up is justified, for several reasons.
Rigid mark-to-market accounting is similar to a highway that has a speed limit and a speed minimum.
Under a mark-to-market concept, police would be ticketing these slow drivers for going below the minimum speed.
They must be able to suffer through further mark-to-market losses, and not have recession-sensitive jobs or businesses.
Paulson recognized that under the universal mark-to-market accounting rules, banks and other mortgage providers could not make any new mortgages.
The league median mark-ups for those weeks? 76% (Week 2), 96% (Week 3), and 91% (Week 6).
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Like graffiti artists, hackers hack to leave their mark -- and occasionally to make a political statement, too.
National polls already put him close to that mark -- and even above in some key presidential states.
They use this information to set the MSRP based on market demand rather than based on cost mark-ups.
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Contrast that 215% mark-up on the ready-to-wear suit to the mark-ups on men's accessories--neckties, belts, braces and the like.
So clearly, opponent has a huge impact on the eventually secondary price mark-up.
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Congress has made its intent clear: It wants mark-to-market scrapped or at least suspended for a good, long time.
Mark-to-market accounting should be prohibited just as it was from 1938 to 2007.
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