Class-action lawsuits in America and Europe have challenged their ability to set the price of e-books.
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But the day before Sinopec was slated to set the price for its IPO, The Asian Wall Street Journal disclosed that one of the company's subsidiaries maintains an office and has company executives in Sudan.
The complaint states that the companies accomplished their conspiracy by agreeing to stop the longstanding practice of selling e-books, as they long sold print books, on wholesale to bookstores, and leaving it to the bookstores to set the price at which they would sell the e-books to consumers.
They would not claim the ability to set the right price for an automobile, but they somehow believe that they can establish the proper interest rate for a highly complex economy in a globally integrated environment.
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That being the case, as long as the Fed usurps the role of markets in an attempt to set the proper price for credit, its rate machinations will make capital difficult to access.
In truth, a gold exchange standard would be as simple as Treasury announcing a plan to peg the dollar to a set gold price, after which the market price of gold would regulate the supply of money.
Internet service providers have asked the government to intervene over the price being set to give them access to BT's physical infrastructure.
One of the most controversial measures to have come before Holyrood, the SNP's plan to set a minimum price per unit of alcohol was defeated in the last parliament after opposition parties refused to back it over concerns it was illegal and would punish responsible drinkers.
Instead the government is set to fix the future price of new nuclear electricity, to give investors the certainty of a future income stream.
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On Wednesday, the BLS is set to release the consumer price index (CPI), which fell 0.3% in November and is expected to come in flat for December.
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Out of a sample of over 2, 000 fans, 9% said they would not be renewing their season tickets regardless of price, with 7% set to renew if the price does not increase and 13% yet to decide.
Many product vendors attempt to set the final retail price that stores may charge for their product, but few are successful in doing so.
If it happens, the insured company has the right to sell new shares to the pension fund at a set price.
If an individual investor likes the long-term outlook of Dell Computer or Cisco Systems, it's easy to purchase a "call" on those shares, which gives the investor the right to buy them at a set price in the future.
" Describing Apple's strategy for negotiating with the publishers, Mr. Jobs said, "We'll go to the agency model, where you set the price, and we get our 30%, and yes, the customer pays a little more, but that's what you want anyway.
"We told the publishers, 'We'll go to the agency model, where you set the price, and we get our 30%, and yes, the customer pays a little more, but that's what you want anyway, '" Mr. Jobs was quoted as saying by his biographer, Walter Isaacson.
The former Apple CEO "conceded the price-fixing conspiracy when, the day after publicly announcing Apple's forthcoming iBookstore, he explained to his authorized biographer that Apple had told the publishers, 'We'll go to the agency model, where you set the price, and we get our 30 percent, and yes, the customer pays a little more, but that's what you want anyway, '" the government says in court papers.
Morgan will have the right to buy Cazenove out, and the latter will have the right to sell to the bank, at a price to be set independently.
Thielking says Skobbler has yet to set a price for the iPad app.
SolarCity postponed its closely watched initial public offering on Tuesday, the day the Silicon Valley solar installer was to price the IPO set to go to market on Wednesday, according to Reuters.
State regulators around the country are holding hearings to determine what the actual costs are to RBOCs and to set a price in each state that RBOCs are allowed to charge.
Then, as the bank scrambled to manage the problem, it set off a chain of events that led to the price collapse.
Most convertible securities allow the buyer to convert into common stock at a fixed conversion price set at a modest premium to wherever the common is trading at the time the convertible security is issued.
Moreover, he predicts that "the UK government's strong commitment to nuclear power and to energy security means the 'strike price' will be set at a fair level to secure investment in the nuclear industry".
If the iPhone 5 manages to do that and Apple continues to set the same scorching pace in the coming years, the upside to our price estimate could be huge.
Allowing the private sector to set meter prices might be the best possible way to get to the right price in a city where politicians fight tooth and nail to keep parking cheap.
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At the same time, much-needed foreign investors are being frightened away by Mr Mugabe's repeated threats to nationalise British and American companies and force other foreign-owned firms to sell a majority stake to black Zimbabweans at a price apparently to be set by the government by the end of September.
On the other hand, Facebook spent last week explaining to investors a set of decisions being made to prop up the stock price.
The Dow stands to set new highs if it passes the record closing price of 14, 093.08, established on Oct. 27, 2007.
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