What about the contango effect (when the price of a barrel of oil for delivery in six months is higher than an identical barrel bought on the spot market today)?
Host Steve Inskeep talks with NPR's Frank Langfitt and Alexandra Harney, author of The China Price, about what the future may hold for the world economy.
As the focus of the global smartphone market shifts from the United States to China and India, there is unease about what this means for the global average sales price of phones.
FORBES: Qualcomm: 3G Device Sales Estimates For North America Continue To Deteriorate
So talk to us a moment, Alvin, about the upward trend in the price of insurance and what it's meant for small businesses, for example, and individuals.
What about measures of inflation, such as the Consumer Price Index, that are negative?
What kinds of messages do price controls send about the kind of society in which we live?
The article argued that readers should forget about the near worthless calculation that is GDP, and instead consider what a rising gold price meant for the economy.
FORBES: $1400 Gold Is a Bullish Signal Amid a Bearish Presidency
Depending on what assumptions you make about how much of the deferred purchase price will ever be paid, Virgin is probably paying a discount of around 20% to the book value of the Rock.
BBC: Have taxpayers got a decent deal on the Northern Rock sale?
He got a chance to prove this when, soon after he took over, he met Wall Street analysts to see what the firm could do about its long-depressed share price.
The cool, or perhaps morbid, calculation that economists have to make about such investments revolves around the question of what price to put on each life saved, and how that compares with monies spent on roads, say, or air-traffic control.
What is sort of surprising is how wildly overconfident Chesapeake was about the price they might be able to fetch for the assets.
FORBES: Chesapeake Settles For Less Than Expected In $1B Deal With Sinopec
Journalists, too, make a cost-benefit analysis about the price of that access in terms of what it takes to remain in the good graces of the corporate insiders who can provide it.
"There is also concern about dilution from what price it will have to raise capital in the market, " Hintz said.
If you are going to do a comparison and talk about what computers have to offer at least do it in the same price point!
We also wish we knew more about the target price: AMD won't say what brand will be selling this, or when it will be available.
ENGADGET: AMD shows off LiveBox mini desktop based on one of its Fusion chips (video)
The resulting market would send valuable price signals about what kind of homes, airplanes, highways, drilling rigs, factories and insulation we should be investing in today.
New ventures, they are taught, are all about finding customers, what distribution channels to adopt, how to price the product, who to partner with, and more.
That is about half what Russia charges for a trip to the international station, a price that is likely to go up after the space shuttle retires later this year.
ECONOMIST: The Americans may still go to the moon before the Chinese
When stripped to their essentials what we are talking about is beating the cash-flow expectations implicit in the share price.
Investors seem to be concerned about what the increasing cost of mining will mean when coupled with a weaker gold price narrowing margins and more pressure on cash flows at gold mines.
FORBES: Gold Mining Stocks Still In Free Fall As Gold Price Stabilizes
What the gold market and other commodity markets are more likely worried about at present is price deflation, amid falling commodity market prices and worries about worldwide recession.
FORBES: Comex Gold Ends Sharply Lower amid Firmer U.S. Dollar Index, Weaker Crude Oil
Mr Clegg, however, tries to dodge speculation about what his party would do in that event beyond demanding radical constitutional change as the price for entering any new government.
Just in case you missed it the first time around, or fell off your chair and forgot what you were reading about: Sony will lose the equivalent (or more) to the retail price of a competing console every time a cash register rings up a PS3 sale this holiday.
The beauty of technical analysis is that price patterns give you a clue about what market participants actually believe belief defined in this case as whether money is being put on the table or not.
What this partner said is that it would have the impact of immediately decreasing the share price by about 40%.
What we are talking about here is customer service efficiency, how much value your service adds relative to the price you charge.
Nokia played down our requests about what was running under the hood, and while it's always nice to know, at this price-point RAM and processor speeds are likely not the buyer's primary concern.
ENGADGET: Nokia announces Asha 210: a colorful QWERTY with a social heart, we go hands-on (video)
This uncertainty about what would happen after he leaves is now partially answered, and with it a weight lifted off the stock price.
FORBES: Was There a Steve Jobs Discount Built Into Apple's Stock?
应用推荐