In fact, it signed up to a fixed-price contract to deliver the same trucks incumbent BAE Systems was building for 30 percent less per vehicle.
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Finally, the JLTV contract is a fixed-price contract under which the company has to provide 22 light combat vehicles within 12 to 14 months to the U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps.
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The losers promptly launched a legal protest that was partially successful, but on the crucial issue of price realism government lawyers ruled that the Army was under no obligation to investigate how realistic Oshkosh pricing was since with a fixed-price contract the company would be obligated to absorb any overruns.
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The higher the price of the contract, the stronger the incentive to curtail emissions.
Residential properties will now face a stiffer down-payment requirement and taxes on resale (such as 15% on the contract price for a quick flip).
The Black-Scholes equation, brainchild of economists Fischer Black and Myron Scholes, provided a rational way to price a financial contract when it still had time to run.
Prof Davies said most of the details of the immunisation programme had still to be worked out, including negotiating a contract price for the vaccine, which is marketed by AstraZeneca.
And Wells said that if they offer Price a massive contract when he hits free agency in 2015, there's no way he's turning it down over a facial hair rule.
Or, even better, I could turn around and sell an AAPL put, which obligates me to purchase AAPL at the strike price of the contract in the event I get assigned.
The Indian government started renegotiating the contract price because it felt too dependent on the BAE order after the company issued a profits warning along with the jobs warning in January.
Since the financing is based on the lesser of (1) the purchase price or (2) the appraised value, an appraisal that results in a value at or above the contract purchase price means the deal remains intact.
Lenders are happy when the appraisal delivers a value at or greater than the contract purchase price.
This strategy has limited risk: If the stock climbs to the sky, you simply deliver your shares at the strike price to fulfill the contract.
I. are buying in a nice neighborhood in a great northern New Jersey town was appraised for more than the contract purchase price!
Buyers typically question the wisdom of the already agreed upon contract purchase price in the face of subjectively objective factual evidence to the contrary.
An appraisal that results in a value that is less than the contract purchase price can potentially mean all kinds of woe for the loan officer (me) and the real estate agent.
However, so long as both the long and short positions are equally leveraged, the price of the futures contract will not change very much because there are just as many forced buyers as forced sellers.
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When greater risk and uncertainty in company and market prospects are perceived, price-earnings ratios contract, and consequently, valuations decline as investors are only willing to pay a smaller amount for a given level of earnings.
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Then it should announce an upper limit for the gold price and use Open Market operations to contract bank reserves as needed to enforce this ceiling price.
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The manner in which the firm disposed of the rubbish was their business as long as it did not affect the price of the councils' contract, according to Mr Kinghorn.
But in the case where a customer pays the full retail price or pays off the contract term, he should be able to do whatever he wants and select any carrier he chooses.
When backwardation happens, the future contracts of a commodity are actually priced lower than the price of the current month contract at the time of sale, and the investor (or ETF) can benefit by selling the current month high and buying the next month lower.
By selling twice as many puts in the September contract the investor was able to reduce the price of getting long the nearly at-the-money July contract puts to just 14 cents each.
He said the project may help stabilize consumer energy costs, since the contract locks in the price Delmarva will pay per kilowatt-hour.
Phone and internet customers may soon be allowed to escape their fixed contracts, without penalty, if the price is put up mid-contract.
In the new arrangement, called the "agency model, " the publisher set the retail price and the bookstore agreed per contract not to discount.
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The government and EDF are in negotiations to agree a contract for the guaranteed price the company will receive for the power it generates.
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The catch: Consumers can't easily take what would otherwise be an expensive smartphone to a rival carrier who offers a better price while the phone is under contract.
If the price changes the day after a purchace, the holder of a contract can then sell the contract for a profit or loss depending on how the price changes.
Revenue from our media and entertainment customers grew 15% year-over-year and declined 4% sequentially in the first quarter, driven by contract renewals at lower price points from some of our largest media customers.
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