To understand the wide spread between these two numbers, talk to Bryan Schiele of Colorado Springs, Colo.

FORBES: Name Recognition

To understand the wide spread between these two numbers, talk to Bryan Schiele of Colorado Springs, Colorado.

FORBES: Magazine Article

So is the wide spread between the price charged to rich, impatient readers for a hardcover and the price tag on the paperback.

FORBES: Soak the Rich

In every part of the world, the spread between the best and worst run firms is wide.

ECONOMIST: Maybe management theory is not hocus pocus after all

One issue for investors, according to Mr. Rosenbluth, is that this two-year-old fund is thinly traded and can have a wide bid-ask spread (the difference between the prices potential buyers "bid" to acquire shares and the prices potential sellers "ask" to part with theirs).

WSJ: Funds to Fine-Tune Technology Exposure

The spread between gold and platinum prices remains wide.

FORBES: FOCUS: Platinum Sees Physical Buying, But Price Outlook Is Hazy

As is always the case with ETFs, limit orders and stops must be used because quite often the spread between the bid and ask can be very wide.

FORBES: Chinese Yuan Takes Global Stage

The design requires 64 receivers, each 12 metres across (interferometry again), to be spread out over an area 10km wide on a vast plateau between the cones of half a dozen Andean volcanoes.

ECONOMIST: Beneath the Southern Cross I stand