Indeed, studies have shown that even when emerging-market economies say they are floating (as Malaysia, for example, used to), they tend to rely more heavily than the industrial countries do on interest-rate policy and foreign-exchange market intervention to limit actual movements in the exchange rate.
As president of the Environmental Defense Fund, Fred Krupp helped establish a market-based cap-and-trade system to limit acid rain pollution in the late 1980s.
It is this commitment to intervene without limit that has cowed speculators hoping to profit from bond-market distress.
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The world market place is quieter to start the new trading week, which did limit the upside for the safe-haven gold market.
The debt also can be used to limit volatility in the emerging-market portion of a portfolio, Mr. Harting says.
Both Mr McCain and Mr Obama support a form of cap-and-trade to limit carbon emissions using market mechanisms (this would probably put up prices, though it should reduce pollution).
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Rigid mark-to-market accounting is similar to a highway that has a speed limit and a speed minimum.
The bear market has made many companies determined to limit their exposure to risky pension-fund obligations.
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The gold and silver market bulls are still technically weak on a near-term basis, which continues to limit fresh speculative buying interest.
Now, the extent to which they can become a big-market power again hinges on their ability to reverse a dramatic slide in attendance and limit their losses.
Some providers of single-country ETFs address concentration risk by using a "modified market weighting" to limit their exposure to a country's giant stocks, or simply by focusing on stocks of smaller companies.
Analysts say that Singapore tends to limit bank entrants in the city-state given its a small market and relatively smaller population.
The investment choices available: Large corporations typically limit investment choices to mutual funds, bonds and money-market instruments.
China Vanke, the country's biggest real estate developer by market value, hit the daily up-limit of 10 percent on the Shenzhen bourse after announcing plans to shift trading of its foreign-currency shares to Hong Kong.
But central-government officials have repeatedly pledged that curbs will remain to limit how much the market can heat up.
Some intervention is certainly needed to limit the systemic risk posed by this largely unregulated, over-the-counter market.
The focus in the options market for us is that any tick rule, any situation where you would limit the ability to sell short, needs to be exempted for the options market makers--those professionals that provide liquidity into the market place.
Before the new SEC-mandated rules, marketmakers would often let limit orders pile up unexecuted unless the market rose or dropped to a point where they could get their accustomed spread.
It is easy to imagine circumstances in which a monopoly would charge less than the text-book profit-maximising price, either to extend its market (with a view to raising prices later) or to deter new entrants (a strategy known as limit-pricing).
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