Candidates represent what might be called tied purchases of a market basket of goods.
After all, why pay a manager when you could economically purchase an entire market basket and get better performance?
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Examine the market basket of goods or services they purchase over a six-to-twelve-month period and then calculate the margin on each basket, keeping track of discounts and price concessions.
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is a measure of the average change over time in the prices paid by urban consumers for a market basket of consumer goods and services.
Monetary policy would then be guided by the market prices of a basket of inflation sensitive precious commodities such as gold.
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Don't put all your eggs in the same basket because this market is very volatile.
Instead, many people put all their eggs in one basket, treating the market like a casino.
Since the market bottom in October of 2002, this basket of utilities has appreciated 105%, and that return figure does not take into account the dividends investors have collected along the way.
Recessions remove focus from an old basket of goods into what satisfies new market demands.
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"China is an important market, but Brazil shouldn't be putting all its eggs in one basket, " says Rubens Ricupero, a former Brazilian finance minister and former head of the U.N.
These banks have a high share of mortgage lending and are heavily exposed to commercial property and construction lending - which is what has done for them, because Spain's housing market is weak and becoming weaker, and its commercial property sector is a basket case.
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