The LTV formula, when used correctly, can be a good tactical tool for monitoring and comparing like-minded variable market programs, especially across channels.
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Any time government tries to force one variable within a free market to a certain value or to move in a certain direction, it destabilizes every other variable.
Another critical variable in every stock market relates to which sectors dominate the capitalization of the index.
Nearly every credit card on the market today is a variable rate card.
This situation can create a downward spiral because the rewards of rent-seeking are often constant, whereas the surpluses available in a market economy are more variable.
MetLife sells as if 10 year Treasuries will yield 2 percent for the next 5 years, that the stock market withers below 1000 and variable annuity sales dry up.
During a conference call Chief Executive BrianDunnBrian Dunn said consumer spending has been highly variable, though Best Buy saw modest market-share gains in its fiscal 2011 first quarter, according to TradeTheNews.com.
The only variable shoring up the euro is their money market rates still stand higher than ours.
While it has a 15% market share in traditional fixed-annuity life insurance products, it has less than 2% of Germany's mutual fund market-and virtually nothing in equity-linked variable annuities.
Morgan can do complex calculations that were prohibitively expensive and time-consuming, such as running a trade through scenarios for both interest rate fluctuation and market volatility, rather than looking at just one variable at a time.
The PVF allows the investor to receive an up-front payment (typically, 75-85% market value) in exchange for delivery of a variable amount of shares or cash in the future, at which time the capital gain is realized for tax purposes and the tax on the capital gain is paid.
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The U.S.-market car endures the hurdy-gurdy droning of a continuously variable transmission (CVT).
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About one-third or more of their pay is variable -- cash bonuses and SARs, tied to individual, business and stock market performance.
The market rumbles in risk on, risk off variance, shying at every macro variable that could spell trouble.
And the Fed would face the delicate job if explaining to market traders that the short term rate they had been plugging into all their algorithms was variable, after all.
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