Does anybody question that food is something where free market rules do not apply?
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But market rules still apply, and in this case they are a wind shear.
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The Kremlin is keen to be seen as a reliable partner, playing by market rules.
Now the Market Rules The parallel development, in the business world, is the rise of consumer power.
Such matters fall under single-market rules that generally apply to 27 members, in which Britain has no veto.
This allows the authorities to flout single-market rules with no more than a quiet word in the ear.
This was a rare instance of the Tories aping European labour market rules, as something similar applies in Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium.
This is chiefly linked to rigid labour-market rules and payroll charges on employers, which between them keep labour costs high and deter job creation.
Further, ETFs that trade futures follow mark-to-market rules at year-end.
Mark to market rules and strict ratings may be appropriate (though unfair) in the good times as a means of preparing institutions for the bad times.
It also filed a suit against Merck in New York, accusing it of flouting American capital-market rules by not explaining its motive for buying the shares.
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After all, our huge long-term corporate losses stem not from easy money or mark-to-market rules but largely from the incorrect short-term incentives that compensation plans give to key executives.
It was no coincidence, in my opinion, that the stock market recovery, led by financials, coincided with the minor changes in mark to market rules in March 2009.
The deal was intended to offer international investors the chance to buy into natural resources assets in emerging markets while ensuring they were protected by UK market rules.
That means rewarding them for shifting up a gear from making incremental improvements to their existing products, to coming up with radical innovations that rewrite the market rules.
In August last year, the Supreme Court upheld SEBI's 2011 order directing Sahara to repay its bond holders as it had flouted capital market rules while issuing the bonds.
It should lighten payroll taxes (VAT or green taxes would do less harm) and loosen labour-market rules to give employers more flexibility over hours and wages in a downturn.
While this is a fair and just request on the part of the US simply asking China to adhere to play by world market rules it is based on two wrong assumptions.
Until cleared swap market rules and regulations have been adopted and implemented, the agreement sets out certain terms and conditions that market participants who enter into execution agreements may consider.
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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.
When JPMorgan refused to turn over documents, FERC countered that it must provide evidence that it had not violated market rules or risk losing its license to sell power at market rates.
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To work our way out of the current morass, it will be necessary to relax the mark-to-market rules for banks on valuing the assets that need to be taken off of their balance sheets.
The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act gave the Securities and Exchange Commission the authority to suspend the mark-to-market rules, which went into effect in the fall of 2007, just in time for the credit crisis.
However, a survey of almost 1, 500 European business leaders carried out late last year by UPS, a logistics firm, showed that they are more worried about the failure to enforce the existing single-market rules.
But just as the American government used the constitution's interstate commerce clause to expand its powers, so the European institutions have exploited single-market rules to extend their responsibilities into such areas as social policy, welfare and the environment.
Tellingly, Mr Monti has signed up to a letter sponsored by Britain, the Netherlands and other liberal countries urging stronger enforcement of single-market rules, including the naming and shaming of countries that fail to abide by commitments to open up energy and services.
In the long run, if the projections of the US Energy Information Administration are correct and gas fired generation continues to grow rapidly, then there is little question the market rules need to be modified to assure reliability and spur more pipeline capacity and flexibility.
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Although finding no evidence of illegality, Wood reported that single market rules were being interpreted in ways that favored local companies, such as in contract requirements shaped to suit a given, national supplier, or by false competition where international bids are invited when there is little intention of awarding a contract to a non-national firm.
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