Print graphics, which by definition spread their price among several (or sometimes several hundred) copies, remain relatively affordable.
So is the wide spread between the price charged to rich, impatient readers for a hardcover and the price tag on the paperback.
In merger arbitrage, the narrower the spread between trading price and offer price, the more optimistic traders are that a deal is going through.
The price spread between Brent crude oil, the European benchmark and West Texas Intermediate crude oil, the U.S. benchmark, widened sharply because of the loss of Libyan crude oil production.
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But the spread between the price of the raw material and the price of the finished good is a function of the supply of ethylene-making capacity and the demand for ethylene.
After a period of high prices, with few exceptions the cost of scrap has been on the decline for more than a year, and Steel Dynamics has managed to increase the spread between the price of steel scrap and its average selling price per ton.
There will be a price spread between onshore and offshore forex trading, meaning one product will cost a little more than the other and can be bought and sold against each other for a few pennies difference, adding to the very currency speculation the government says it wants to curb.
The largest single trade on YHOO today, a one-by-two ratio call spread, suggests the price of the underlying may post limited gains during the first seven months of 2012.
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Yet, even after the central banks' announcement, dealers cited by TradeTheNews.com said that some interest rate spreads were still high, with the TED spread (which is price difference between three-month futures contracts for U.S. Treasuries and three-month contracts for Eurodollars) still above 30 basis points.
The best way to protect yourself is to use limit orders when placing an order to buy or sell a stock or an exchange-traded fund. (See How Your Buy and Sell Orders Get Filled for more.) Look at the bid-ask spread and set your price limit at the bid for selling a stock and at the ask for buying a stock.
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If house-price weakness does spread more widely, there may be important economic consequences.
The futures price for delivery in January, at the peak of consumption, is only 94.9 cents, leaving no spread over today's price to pay storage costs.
The reason: As long-haul carriers desperately slashed prices to fill seats and spread expenses, the implied price each passenger pays per connecting leg has dropped relative to the distance traveled during that leg.
The greatest barriers to the spread of truly digital photography are price and quality.
You would have a nice windfall in this stock if the spread between liquidation value and share price narrowed.
Like all brokerage fees, the APT tax establishes a spread between the buy and sell price of every transaction.
We figure what he got on the 76 days he traded captured 47% of the spread between the high and low price.
With unsold inventory piling up throughout the technology industry, price-cutting looks likely to spread.
While no one can accurately predict how protracted the conflict in Libya will play out, how powerful will other uprisings be, and at what point and in what way this will spread, investors can be sure that the price of oil will be on a volatile path in the months to come.
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Moving all those trades, now conducted mostly by phone between dealers and their customers, to a transparent exchange would cut into margins: If everyone can see price quotes in real time, the spread between the bids and offers will narrow.
The price reduction effect of our oil production is spread across the entire world and is thus pretty small.
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If you buy wine the best bottles will come from a single vineyard as you spread out to the region and then the country the price and quality drops.
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It looks like the trader is positioning for significant, albeit limited, downside movement in the price of the underlying by employing a ratio put spread.
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The ETN is designed so that a 0.1% change in the spread between those two yields should result in a 2% price move for FLAT.
The marketmakers rarely allowed customers to trade inside the spread, even if one customer was willing to pay the same price that another customer wanted to sell his stock for.
The crack spread is the difference between the prices paid for crude oil and the price of refined products.
If the spread is wider than a few cents, you can also set the price limit somewhere in the middle, though at the risk of not getting the order filled.
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The put player may be establishing the spread to hedge a long position in the underlying and protect recent share price gains, or could be outright bearish on the European bank in the expectation that the rally is not here to stay.
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One bullish options player positioned for continued share price appreciation in the next several months by initiating a debit call spread in the July contract.
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