The new rules on stock quotations get at the ability of investors to get in the middle of the spread between the bid and ask prices quoted by market- makers.
The online travel industry continues to face increasing competition from airlines and large hotel chains offering bookings directly at their websites leading to online travel agencies removing the booking fees to match the prices quoted by the suppliers themselves.
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Bargain online commissions, combined with new rules on how prices are quoted, create a much more liquid market.
It says it is investigating to determine if dark pool activity detracts from the quality of publicly quoted prices of the stocks involved.
The currency will change from the Netherlands Antillean guilder, known as the florin, to the Caribbean guilder in 2013, but prices are typically quoted in US dollars.
And prices that are being quoted are extremely wide in terms of bid and offer spread.
Corning would like to manufacture fiber to sell to ITT and has quoted ITT prices several times.
The share prices of the 20 quoted football clubs in Britain have been plummeting, generally to around a third of their level two years ago.
This could discourage other buy-out shops from floating their shares, and may dent share prices for those that are already quoted on the stockmarket.
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The most frequently quoted and most significant ones are the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) and the Retail Prices Index (RPI).
However, there is also a psychological reason why pre-sale estimates and post-sale prices are calculated differently: a pre-sale estimate that is quoted net of costs is lower, which helps attract potential bidders.
Gafisa, a publicly quoted construction company, is starting a separate enterprise to build houses at prices up to 150, 000 reais, but that is still out of most people's reach.
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Capacity utilisation has fallen, all four of the publicly-quoted chains lost money in their last full recorded year, and their share prices have crashed (see chart).
Bank of England deputy governor Charles Bean was also quoted as saying the Bank may have no choice but to increase rates if commodity prices rise further.
"Some local authorities have 'fine-tuned' their property policies by allowing home buyers to borrow more from public housing funds, causing a rebound in home prices, " Zhang Dawei, an analyst at Beijing-based Zhongyuan Real Estate, was quoted as saying by the state news agency Xinhua.
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First, publicly quoted builders now look vulnerable to takeovers from rivals or private-equity firms because rising house prices have pushed up the value of their land faster than their share prices.
"Given the widespread use of IT across businesses and the community, the prices paid for hardware and software can have a major commercial and economic impact, " the politician was quoted as saying.
He was quoted in Business Week earlier this month, warning that social turmoil could become widespread this spring as grain prices soar due to the floods in Australia and a drought in Argentina.
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