The paper added that the discussions include looking at the different aspects how of prices are fixed and whether these are transparent.
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As for Swapnote, it is a cash-settled bet on swap prices that are fixed daily by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association.
Alt indicators at current prices, including changes in inventories and consumption of fixed capital, are valued at average prices of the accounting period.
Moreover, some 30% of its sales are now at fixed prices, rather than from auctions.
Because of this, equity and fixed-income prices are more likely to swing quickly in response to Washington next year than at any other time over the past decade.
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In the short term, the supply of housing is more or less fixed, so house prices are mainly driven by demand factors: namely, personal disposable income, real interest rates and the return offered by alternative investments such as equities.
With inflation at the forefront of the minds of fixed income investors these days, bond prices are trading defensively.
The concern, generally, is that billions of speculative dollars are chasing a fixed amount of oil, working to increase commodity prices.
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Since their currencies are now irrevocably fixed, this gap can only be narrowed by prices falling in France or rising in Spain.
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Fixed prices for capacity and energy for each new three-year tranche are negotiated.
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Prescription charges are fixed by the NHS. But Dr Baker added that as NHS prices are based on what prices are paid for the drugs, prices paid by patients could go up if a single wholesaler was able to charge more.
Most are embracing the technology and will therefore gain some revenue from it but the fact that the prices for VoIP are much lower means it will not be a cash cow in the same way as fixed telephone services have been in the past.
The prices mobile operators charge for fixed-line-to-mobile and for mobile-to-mobile interconnection are expected to fall by half over the next four years, says Philip Townsend, a telecoms analyst at Natexis Bleichroeder, a brokerage.
While similar to other ETFs, bond ETFs are unique in the world of fixed-income because, as they are traded on stock exchanges, the current and historical prices of bond ETFs are available to all investors.
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