In bid and ask, the bid price stands in contrast to the ask price or offer , and the difference between the two is called the bid ask spread.

When the price only is subject to ERA, it is usually required that the value of each bid has to be necessarily lower than the value of the last bid registered by the system.

The euro price of oil in May 2007 was 48 euros, or 56 below its current price.

When the demand for potatoes at the current price exceeds supply, the price of potatoes rises, signaling scarcity.

United States Department of Justice, Antitrust Division. Price Fixing and Bid Rigging, They Happen What They Are and What to Look For.

In the markets In the context of stock trading on a stock exchange, the bid price is the highest price a buyer of a stock is willing to pay for a share of that given stock.

Some systems regulate specifically the content of the notice on the winning bid, including the identity and coordinates of the winning bidder, the price of the winning bid, and the place of publication (e.g., on the website specified in the notice of the auction).

And it is the price of risk that is the source of our current distress.

To determine relative ranking, some systems require real time disclosure of the lowest price to be bid while in other systems, only ranking but not prices are disclosed.

But it also recognizes that price swings can become excessive, in the sense that participants may bid asset prices far from levels that are consistent with their long term values.

The current oil price crisis had led to the quest for new and renewable sources of energy.

A speculator can short a government by borrowing its debt at its current price, in the hope of selling it later at a lower price and pocketing the difference.

Improving current practice and international comparability are high priorities as reflected by the range of recent and current activity on this theme on services producer price indices.

John Kerry s Tricky Bid

2.2 The authors state that their lands were expropriated by the Government at a price considerably below the current price in comparison with voluntary purchases and other expropriations in the region.

In Brazil, in the event of a bid tie, only the bid registered first will be considered.

The lowest unique bid wins.

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Of course, the rate of increase of the price of oil in euros during the past year was lower than the rate of increase in dollars. The euro price of oil in May 2007 was 48 euros, or 56 below its current price.

Only a price reduction would create current account surpluses and enable the crisis countries to pay off their foreign debts.

At the current price of more than 140 a barrel, that implies an import cost of more than 500 billion.

In Germany s traditional system, a company s assets were evaluated according to the lowest value principle the lower of an asset s historical price and its current market price must be used for accounting purposes.

Since coming to power, the current Ahmedinejad regime has awarded IRGC affiliated companies billions in no bid contracts, increasing the already great perception among the Iranian public of its corruption.

At the current market price, this would require selling about a quarter of the Fund s holdings of 103.4 million fine ounces.

Palestinian negotiators have always had to balance three issues historic rights, current realities, and the price of using their negative power.

insert guidance on the provision of information, whether the lowest current price in particular should be disclosed see paragraph 29 above .

A study of bidding behaviour in situations where bid rigging is suspected might identify patterns suggesting customer allocation or bid rotation.

Thus, energy specialists point out that the 30 reduction simply brings the price negotiated with Yanukovych down to the current European average.

This offers tremendous economic opportunities, if we can just put a price on the dangers to the planet of current carbon emissions.

The bid was recommended by the Committee.

But, just as Bank of America s current 2.5 billion bid for a stake in the China Construction Bank raises no objections among US politicians, China, too must be permitted to invest abroad freely.

However, even in auctions of models 1 and 2, there may be situations in which the lowest bid is not necessarily the winning bid.

More modern ideas use sensors and networked parking meters which bid up (or down) the price of parking automatically with the goal of keeping 85 90 of the spaces in use at any given time to ensure perpetual parking availability.

(5) The successful bid shall be the bid that is first in the ranking as determined by the automatic evaluation mechanism at the time the auction closes.

The resulting increase in the national debt is the price that we and future generations will pay for the mistakes that created the current economic situation.

In accordance with established practice, the proposed programme budget is normally presented at the same price levels and rates of exchange as the current programme budget.

Dima S tweets the bid at the half way mark

In China, the lowest bid may be invalidated by the procuring entity, for instance, if it is higher than the market price or abnormally low or in case of a misconduct of the winning bidder during the bidding process or the registration.

Tickling yourself is as futile as trying to make yourself richer by writing yourself a check or selling yourself your house for twice its current market price.

To be sure, approval of the Palestinian bid carries significant risks.

This was how many who supported Sarkozy s presidential bid viewed him.

If this is a bid for reciprocity, it should be explored.

Current inflation is more broad based than it appears, regardless of the controversy surrounding the adequacy of China s CPI basket in reflecting the reality of underlying price movements.

Annual GDP growth slowed significantly in the last quarter, to 4.4 , consumer price inflation is high, and the current account and budget deficits last year were too large.

More commonly, the closing time of the electronic reverse auction is automatically extended for a specified period of time (e.g. 5 minutes) if a new lowest bid or a bid that changes top bid rankings is received in the last few minutes (e.g. within 2 minutes of the closing time).