After the auction is over, crank out receipts: assigned value for the donors, excess of bid price over assigned value to buyers.
The maker of ketchup, bagel bites and a host of other products, surged more than 20% in pre-market trading to above the bid price.
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The bid price is 6.6% higher than the closing price on 30 December, the last business day before the two companies confiirmed they were in talks.
The price-to-sales metric of 0.43x at the bid price does not fall below the historical range of price-to-sales, but it is near the low end of the range of 0.37x to 0.72x.
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As of last week, Clyde Union Pumps (formerly Weir Pumps) has been added to the long list, and Dundee's diagnostics firm Axis-Shield is resisting a takeover bid from the US - at least at the current bid price.
"The bid price values Mannesmann fairly and first impressions are that it is not unduly dilutive to Vodafone shareholders, providing the management can achieve the synergies they expect, " said Graham Wood, head of UK and European Equities and Standard Life Investments.
They would probably bid the price of gold above the benchmark price once this policy achieves credibility.
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Investors hungry for a piece of the action bid the price up before the stock began trading at noon yesterday.
The spot market was, and is, relatively thin, and with spot material in relatively short supply, buyers had to bid up price to quite high levels to establish positions.
Predictably, short-seller advocacy groups lamented the toughness and cost burdens of the new regulations, under which a trader wanting to short a particular stock has to find a price above the prevailing national best bid and offer price if the stock has already fallen 10% or more from the previous trading session.
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Now oil companies have simply bid up the price of RINs instead of buying ethanol.
In February Nasdaq launched an AIR application that tracks every bid and ask price on a stock.
So the bid and ask price will be the same as it would be on an exchange.
Do you have evidence that there is any, as you put it, bid rigging or price fixing?
Management capability is also identified as a reason investors will bid up the price of a stock.
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So when people are afraid, they bid up the price of investments that are perceived to be safe.
For why compete and bid up the price of labour when you can just grab some more off the street?
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Investors have bid up the price of US bonds since the financial crisis, and when bond prices increase their interest rates decrease.
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There are some folks who very much want to hold these specific assets and will bid up the price of the remaining assets thereby lowering their interest rate.
By creating a tax wedge between the bid and ask price of financial assets, the APT tax provides incentives to lengthen the average holding period of financial instruments.
If they auctioned them off, they would sell for above par value, because the market would bid up the price of these securities until they yielded perhaps 0.02%.
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But the Chinese firm will be hard put to run Slavneft without local cooperation which makes some observers suspect it is really only in the auction to bid up the price.
Today there are no rules outlawing bid rigging, price fixing, and other insurance company practices that will drive up health care costs, and often drive up their own profits as well.
All three names probably belonged to the same person, who was using multiple identities to bid up the price of his goods--a case of shilling that auctioneers punish by removing sellers from their sites.
So long as any investors are able to mix enough shares into a portfolio to diversify away specific company risk, they will bid up the price of those shares until they reflect only market risk.
It took the government to step in last year and get things moving by giving potential home-buyers cash to make down-payments on homes, cash for clunkers to buy new automobiles, cash to financial firms that was used for trading to bid up the price of stocks and commodities.
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