The decrease is primarily attributable to the continuing effects of actions taken in conjunction with Clearwire's cost cutting initiatives in 2011 including lower employee-related expenses resulting from headcount reductions and outsourcing of the customer care function, reduced marketing spend, as well as decreased selling commission expense associated with our no-contract product offering which was launched at the beginning of 2012.
Item No. 3 is the commission, paid when buying and selling (unless your brokerage offers commission-free trades).
Consumer group Which? says that some bank staff were on an 87% commission for selling PPI.
In fact, there are many different kinds of people who call themselves financial advisors and they get paid in a few different ways a commission for selling financial products, a fee based on the amount of client money they oversee, or a fee for the time they spend doing work for clients.
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"We have in the pipeline a proposal on internet commerce, but it is not commerce in the sense of distance selling of physical goods, " Commission tax official Stephen Bill said.
Under orders from the European Commission, Lloyds is selling 632 branches, equivalent to 22% of its branch network - and initial bids need to be received by mid July (which is a bit quicker than expected).
In all investments the sin of commission, buying late and selling too early is easier to live with but you must never look back.
With the expiration looming on an emergency Securities and Exchange Commission order banning short-selling in hundreds of financial company stocks, exchanges are working toward a permanent solution that would involve all stocks.
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But a 1992 ruling from the commission prohibits prescription-drug companies from selling their wares directly to Europe's consumers.
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Did they, for instance, hand back to the underwriter some of the profits from selling the shares, by doing a lot of commission-paying business shortly afterwards?
The Commission is working on regulation for short-selling, looking into dark pools and flash trading and changing some of its staff members all at the same time.
Commission costs are about 20 percent of the selling price on average, which are paid by the buyer as an add-on to the recorded sales price, according to a recent cost comparison published by Brandeis University.
By selling the more expensive home, the agent earns a larger commission, she noted.
The second fee structure is a commission model under which the adviser is paid for selling a particular investment product, like a mutual fund or an annuity.
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Financial stocks continued to fall even after the Securities and Exchange Commission slapped all sorts of restrictions on short-selling last month, but the agency has extended those restrictions anyway.
In a 3-2 vote two weeks ago, the Securities and Exchange Commission voted in favor of curbs on the short-selling of shares.
The commission asked the makers of Buckyballs and Buckycubes to stop selling their products, but they refused, according Scott Wolfson, a spokesman for the federal agency.
That Lloyds should beef up the assets it is selling was the one proposal for immediate action made by the independent commission in its interim report published last month.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has been studying the issue of naked short-selling and even instituted new regulations in January 2005 that require the stock exchanges to report stocks that routinely fail-to-deliver.
The European Commission argues that this will give Boeing an inside track in selling jets to these airlines.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has received a deluge of requests to amend short-selling rules it enacted just two years ago as the New York Stock Exchange continues its efforts to enforce existing regulations.
Instead, it is in selling the idea of selling Herbalife products to others all of whom will pay a commission to their recruiter on any sales they make, whether to themselves in the way of start-up costs or others.
Comparable NOOK sales reflect the actual selling price for digital books sold under the agency model rather than solely the commission received.
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But while the Securities and Exchange Commission has taken steps to close loopholes that allow abuses like naked short selling to happen, others have sharply criticized Byrne's efforts.
If the thought of commission troubles you - and it does many after the pension mis-selling scandal of the early 1990s - you can opt for advisers that charge a fee.
Since that day, regulators from both the SEC and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission have been trying to piece together how a flood of early afternoon selling in stock futures and in stocks themselves led to a momentary 998-point drop in the Dow Jones industrial average.
The European Commission, which has been considering outlawing the European industry's system of selling cars through exclusive dealerships, had been due to rule on the matter in 2002.
The authorities also want to halt the possible mis-selling of financial policies, where the adviser is more interested in the prospect of earning commission payments than the financial well-being of the customers.
But in July, the Competition Commission published a critical report on Milk Marque, the biggest farm co-operative selling group in Britain, which sells 40% of milk produced by dairy farmers.
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