Companies rarely fix both prices and quantities, though, because it would make their profits too risky.

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Hasan heads the Indonesian Plywood Association, which sets prices and quantities for plywood exports (Indonesia is one of the world's major suppliers).

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Roubini: Well, in the case of residential real estate, I would say prices and quantities have fallen so much from the peak, that probably they are close to the bottom.

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CustomMade could aggregate demand and buy large quantities at cheaper prices for its merchants.

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The free market, not government officials, should dictate the quantities of goods and services produced and the prices at which they are sold because the decisions of governments officials necessarily will be arbitrary in relation to those of the market.

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Parliament's approval for the bill would permit the release of huge quantities of grain from the government's overflowing storage sites at near giveaway prices and is expected to become a big vote-winner for the Congress party-led coalition government, which faces a general election in early 2014.

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USDA, China has sucked in vast quantities of grains and other commodities to feed its rapid economic growth, pushing up prices.

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