Statoil, which confirmed its Norwegian headquarters had been inspected, said the suspected violations "related to the Platts' Market-On-Close (MOC) price assessment process" and "may have been on-going since 2002".
"Looking at the prospects for next year I think it's fair to say I'm more worried than other members that these sort of expectations may get built into the wage bargaining, price setting process, " Mr Weale said.
Many businesses are learning this the hard way and paying a hefty price in the process.
New York and reported very favorably on the experience, both in terms of process and price.
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But traders still set the final price, and the process took six seconds.
Plenty of exchanges also sound warnings about the danger of a fragmentation of liquidity that could damage the process of price formation.
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With the inflation dragon now all but slain, the Chinese government has room to cut interest rates or ease other curbs to stimulate economic growth, without being concerned that it will ignite a new price spiral in the process.
As long as there was uncertainty about the long-term value of the Swiss franc, speculators who thought the currency undervalued had an incentive to buy francs in order to profit from the appreciation, pushing the price up in the process.
This, the official says, is the price of an intensely bureaucratic process of government.
The final price is usually about half the initial asking price but it is the process that is so much fun.
At some point our society is going to be forced to choose between allowing this ongoing abuse of the ESA and paying the ever-increasing economic and societal price, or modifying the process of nominating species in a way that requires the employment of sound science, the consideration of economic and other societal impacts, and returns the law to its original, balanced intent.
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We are in the process of revising our price estimate for First Solar.
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We are in the process of updating our price estimate for Facebook in the light of recent earnings and will have an update ready soon.
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And if a devaluation cannot be used to reduce real wages, the real exchange rate overvaluation will be undone via a slow and painful process of wage and price deflation.
From the beginning the challenge was coming up with an inexpensive catalyst that could be reused in the reactor, driving the cost of the process below the market price of gas.
The ability to go back and forth between that information and the actual machine would be useful and might give shoppers less excuse to check out models on their smart phones or iPads while in the store (in the process perhaps spotting a lower price and leaving to buy online).
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EasyJet's earnings were hurt by the rising price of oil, which it failed to adequately hedge itself against--a process of buying its fuel ahead of time at an agreed-upon price.
Both parties would be better off if they could agree to use a less time-consuming and stressful process for deciding on a sale price.
To keep down price rises, and thus ease the political process, governments should employ a second tool: spending to help promising new technologies get to market.
The transactions are done through an auction process with the dealers competing on price and the Fed accepting the low bids for buying and the high bids for selling.
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As I wrote last June, its value chain let Dell set its costs 14% below those of competitors like Compaq (that HP bought in 2002) while charging companies a 13% higher price because of the convenience its online purchasing process gave companies who could order PCs configured for their specific requirements.
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The chemical company argues that Apollo persuaded Huntsman to drop out of a June 2007 takeover deal with the Holland-based Basell by falsely indicating it would buy Huntsman at a better price, when in fact Apollo was acting out a broader plan to mar the transaction process so badly that it would compel Huntsman to come to Hexicon at a lower price.
Ironically, cyclical inflation is deflationary, particularly asset price inflation within the context of an extended deleveraging process.
Professor Price stressed the importance of conducting the Strategy review process in an open, inclusive and participatory manner to ensure widespread ownership of the new Strategy.
The irrational rules governing the process prevent it from producing the market equilibrium price.
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This makes the sales process much more effective than just competing on price or offering an extra feature.
If the price of oil stays high enough, if the retorting process can be made cheap enough, and if environmental concerns can be satisfied, there's a lot of oil to be had here.
The registration process is a tad cumbersome, but a small price to pay if you find yellow pages an idea whose time has passed.
The Treasury plans to buy huge amounts of distressed debt using a reverse auction process, where banks offer to sell at a price and the government buys from the lowest price upwards.
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