Mark-up to mark-down is a pricing strategy whereby retailers set regular merchandise prices high and then turn around to offer customers discounts.
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In our opinion, such disclosure is meaningless and confusing since it does not include mark-ups, mark-downs and spreads on shares traded on a principal basis.
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However, in some instances, Merrill also charged customers undisclosed mark-ups and mark-downs by filling customer orders at prices less favorable to the customer than the prices at which Merrill purchased or sold the securities in the market.
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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.
In the end, Senators Max Baucus, D-Montana, Mark Begich, D-Alaska, Kay Hagan, D-North Carolina and Mark Pryor, D-Arkansas voted against the budget proposal.
Two Senate Democrats from pro-gun states up for re-election next year -- Mark Begich of Alaska and Mark Pryor of Arkansas -- voted with 29 Republicans attempting to filibuster the legislation.
Commercial satellite imagery helps do that, one reason a bi-partisan group of Congressmen, including Senate Select Committee on Intelligence members Mark Warner (D-Va.), Mark Udall (D-Colo.), and Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), sent a letter to Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta requesting full support for the program.
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Yet the Elephants captain will take some pleasure if he becomes the first Chelsea player for 22 years to reach the 30-goal mark - as long as the team are winners.
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Or he could change accounting rules, giving banks a time out from the relentless, capital-killing mark-to-market rules that require financial firms to price their assets in an environment where no one wants them.
If I didn't have a Mark 4 (Canon EOS-1D Mark IV capable of shooting up to 10 frames per second, Ed) or some other really fast camera, I wouldn't have these pictures.
During the OFT inquiry, the group commissioned its own survey which found a multi-million pound mark-up on prices north of the Highlands line.
The D-mark, or Deutsche Mark, its last incarnation, was introduced by the Allies in 1948 and became the strongest of the European currencies.
Only later is it discovered that wrapped within it is a fingernail-sized piece of circuit board with a tell-tale identifying mark - the number one.
Suspending mark-to-market helps banks in the sense they wouldn't have to mark down their assets constantly, but it would do nothing to improve the market's faith in the numbers.
Then on Sept. 12 the SEC announced a suit against the CEO, as well as former Chief Financial Officer Mark Swartz and ex-general counsel Mark Belnick .
Just under 19, 000 A-level papers were sent back for what is called a "high priority re-mark" - an increase of 29% on last year - as teenagers waited to confirm their university or college places.
Tilton says she has independent third-party loan-pricing firms like Mark-It and LoanX verifying her loan values.
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Ex-detective Mark Williams-Thomas said his wife and children were "annoyed and upset".
Streep's nomination gave her a record 16 Oscar nods -- extending her own mark -- well ahead of Katharine Hepburn and Jack Nicholson's 12 each.
Two police officers -- Mark Todd and Kim Munley -- saved countless lives by risking their own.
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That economic emergency, as I -- the example I used with Mark -- maybe we should just wait to patch the roof, even though it rains.
Design teams work directly with clothing manufacturers to create private-label lines, avoiding the mark-up applied by apparel companies which normally serve as middlemen between retailers and manufacturers.
Occupants of The Mark Residences, high-end condominiums attached to The Mark Hotel on the Upper East Side, can have meals cooked by celebrity chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten delivered to their living rooms.
Bez - real name Mark Berry - was jailed for four weeks in August and told he must not contact her for two years.
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His teams at New Mexico won at least 22 games in each of his six seasons, highlighted by a school-record 30-5 mark in 2009-10.
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During cross-examination, Mark Milliken-Smith QC, for Bassam Karrar, suggested Girl Three had not made a formal complaint at the time of the attack because her account was "a wholly false allegation of rape".
Chambers is due to go head-to-head with Mark Lewis-Francis and Jason Gardener in Ostrava on Thursday night in what looked set to be an exciting run-off for the place in the British team.
It takes weeks to read, weighs as much as a Sunday roast and might do real harm if thrown from a moving vehicle or hurled (as impatient readers may wish to do around the 700-page mark) willy-nilly from an upper-storey window.
Car rental agencies report that a secondary market has developed, with American officers subletting four-wheel-drive vehicles at a 50% mark-up.
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