These fixed price contracts help Silver Wheaton attain high margins (close to 70%) across all its divisions.
Gasfin provides infrastructure solutions under long term fixed price contracts which can be structured to include or exclude gas supply.
Sortzi has seen a trend toward more fixed-price contracts, or those under which tasks are performed for a predetermined price.
It recommended that the government award decades-long, more or less fixed-price contracts to firms to make sure that nuclear plants and wind farms get built.
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To accomplish this, the agency has fundamentally altered internal procedures by focusing more on fixed-price contracts and reducing its day-to-day oversight of commercial space companies, like SpaceX.
Mr Atherton reckons that the long-term, high-price contracts recommended by the CCC might persuade firms to pony up, since these commitments would be hard to wriggle out of.
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Following the expiration of the original contract in 2004, the Company and Entergy have negotiated additional fixed-price contracts totaling 1, 000 MW of capacity and energy for the last several years.
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Moreover, complete cancellation of the program would cost the taxpayer huge sums in termination costs provided for as part of the fixed price contracts that would have to be breached.
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No software told Donnelley what kinds of returns it was making on its printing jobs or how to price new contracts.
No software to tell Donnelley what kinds of returns it was making on its printing jobs or how to price new contracts.
That, in turn, helped him to bid for fixed-price government contracts, which most defense contractors are loath to do, fearing that cost overruns will eat up their profits.
M. fixes set a price for settling contracts between members of the London bullion market.
And judging by the price of futures contracts based on the Case-Shiller composite index, investors expect house prices to fall further.
Avtovaz export contracts typically stipulated an even lower price for Ladas than domestic dealership contracts and granted an even longer grace period for dealerships to pay factory.
"A complete ban on price rises in fixed contracts has also been considered, " said Ofcom.
However, price rises in fixed contracts will not be banned, the regulator said.
The price of DVD players was plunging, yet they hadn't inserted any price protection in the contracts they signed with their makers.
The constant onslaught of cash into these markets causes a frenzy in the price of the futures contracts and drags the spot prices ever upward.
For this quarter, we expect to see a marginally better performance from the firm, thanks to an increase in offshore drilling in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico and new contracts and price revisions in the international space.
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Despite growth in value added services, media revenues declined sequentially as customers renewed contracts at lower price points.
The allure lies in the cost structure: no contracts and lower price points.
To address these concerns, they worked together to enter into contracts that eliminated price competition among bookstores selling e-books, substantially increasing prices paid by consumers.
Fund firms also are asking regulators to proceed with caution when it comes to timely exposure for the price and value of swap contracts, another regulatory goal.
Perhaps the clearest indicator of what the markets think is the price of federal-funds futures contracts.
In return for these payments, FalconStor got contracts that pumped the price of the stock up 22%.
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In Asia, where gas is largely traded using a system of long-term contracts tied to the price of oil, prices are high.
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As sellers panicked and cut their asking prices, the Flipper sometimes pulled his sell order and bought, scoring the contracts at an advantageous price.
Another up-day tomorrow or Friday could lift premium on the options to provide an opportunity to sell the contracts at an advantageous price prior to expiration.
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That contracts based on the price of some commodity or asset have been around for about as long as mankind has been trading indicates that they are pretty useful.
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They can gauge people's expressions, discern the frenzy of hand signals, even overhear price gaps between, say, contracts in the 10-year and the 30-year pits--all of this drama unavailable to screen traders.
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