Ross Norman, CEO of Sharps-Pixley, said he is of impression the commission may take a look at all reference prices for a range of markets, rather than gold coming under special scrutiny.

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For reference, the other types of day structures are range days, where the market is just neutral.

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Instead, the relative shares in the deal were struck by reference to both banks' share-price trading range over the past year.

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The maturity model shown in this pyramid is used to help position EECM solution vendors into one of three tiers, with additional criteria including range of functional coverage, available resources and reference accounts.

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There's the range of FTSE numbers, for instance, which are a reference point for a lot of contracts.

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