The knowledge comes from a new feature called Zbubbles, which gives online shoppers real-time price and value comparisons.
In another example, Cognizant built an app for an insurance company enabling their field organization to provide real-time price quotes.
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Now layer on e-commerce, with mobile technology enabling real-time price comparisons, and the exercise of pricing becomes even more complicated.
Inter-dealer brokers have the only trading systems in the Canadian bond market and are the primary source of real-time price information.
Since 1992, the Canadian Investment Dealers Association has been trying to create a real-time price-information system for Canadian government bonds and treasury bills.
But falling short of real-time price displays, the system would be less effective than exchange trading in stopping a counterparty in a trade from defaulting--or a fire from quickly spreading.
This they do not only by cutting prices and offering wider choices, but also by allowing consumers to make real-time price comparisons and to switch rapidly (and frequently) to the cheapest provider.
Numerous smartphone apps will allow consumers to do real-time price comparison while they are in stores on Black Friday (often, ironically, taking advantage of free, fast WiFi networks offered by retailers and malls).
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In addition to those demand response dispatches, Constellation Energy was providing real-time market price information to many of its customers, thus giving them information on the value of curtailing energy use during the heat wave when power prices jumped.
As a consequence, the dollar price of gold is the best, though imprecise, real-time measure of the price level.
Moving all those trades, now conducted mostly by phone between dealers and their customers, to a transparent exchange would cut into margins: If everyone can see price quotes in real time, the spread between the bids and offers will narrow.
The development of CUDA, a parallel computing architecture developed by Nvidia, the leading GPU company, in 2006-2007, changed everything, said Hanweck, who founded Hanweck Associates, to develop a low latency, real-time options analytics engine to price and manage risk for options using GPUs.
Gordon is luring more energy clients with such services as an online exchange where refiners can establish fuel prices in real time, rather than send out a price list once daily, and can verify the credit status of potential customers.
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So is the likely effect on share-price volatility of quasi real-time data: would it make some investors even more short-termist in their outlook?
Within most countries, government statisticians provide regular estimates of aggregate output and expenditure in real terms, after correction for price changes over time.
Rightly, marketers like that they can measure the performance of an ad in real time and easily reach an audience for the best price.
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However, because gold prices increased by 20.3% during that time, the Real Dow (the Dow divided by the price of gold) fell by 9.2%.
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So in the case of Clear Capital, the company has its market analytics department, but it also boasts an on-the-ground in-house staff that crunches tens of thousands of real-time valuation reports across the country, looking at everything from broker price opinions to appraisals.
Asset price inflation is much easier to diagnose through the rear mirror than in real time.
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Fluctuations in the market price of gold as measured in dollars and euros would send the respective central banks real-time information on how to adjust dollar and euro liquidity to accommodate the demand for money.
In real terms, adjusted for consumer-price inflation, interest rates are already negative: for the first time since the mid-1970s. (Though using a different measure of inflation, they are still positive, just.) Although the context is very different, some commentators are already noting that the Bank of Japan has, for a prolonged period, had virtually no room for manoeuvre on monetary policy because Japanese interest rates have been negative for so long.
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