In the case of a gold standard system, the policy target is to create a currency whose value is fixed to gold.
Fees for registering property were reduced from 3% of the property value to a low fixed fee.
Whereas an old-style trust pays out only investment income (dividends and interest) to "income" beneficiaries, a TRU pays them a fixed percentage of its value annually--typically 3% to 5%.
This value is then added to the fixed rate to arrive at the overall earnings rate.
So consumers who value fixed prices usually have to accept that firms may ration access to the good.
This has profound implications for equilibrium gas prices, including the idea that gas should sell for some fixed proportion to oil based on the Btu value of the two fuels.
This would be expected on a widespread basis, because the Terra would have a fixed, inflation proof value, due to its 100% commodity backing.
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Bear is more exposed than its peers to a slowdown in fixed-income markets but its shares are now trading at an invitingly small premium to book value.
Goods sold at fixed prices have come to account for 30% of the value of all goods sold.
Market participants will demand higher returns to compensate for rising prices that eat away the value of fixed-income investments over time.
If categorized as a hurricane, residential policyholders would be subject to deductibles based on a percentage of property value instead of fixed rates.
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In the longer term, the government hopes to persuade Congress to tax cigarettes and alcohol on their value, rather than a fixed sum per unit sold.
In September, he put in place capital controls and fixed the value of the Malaysian dollar, thus hoping to shield the currency from the ill effects of further stimulus.
Keep in mind that municipal securities are subject to a number of risks including, but not limited to: Interest Rate Risk, the risk that the market value of fixed-income securities may fluctuate when interest rates change, and Prepayment Risk, the risk that the issuers of individual securities may prepay them at a time when interest rates have declined.
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Instead of paying out only investment income to current heirs, a total return unitrust pays a fixed percentage of its total value annually.
The person who sets up the trust gets annual payments adding up to the asset's original value, plus a return based on a fixed interest rate set by the Internal Revenue Service.
In 1993, Richard Norman and Rafael Ramirez argued that the value chain was outdated, suited to a slower changing world of comparatively fixed markets.
The drilling companies typically acquire leases with landholders who have access to oil and mineral rights below their land by using a landman (either an employee of the company or an independent agent), who offers a fixed price per acre for the right to drill, plus a royalty percentage of the value of the produced hydrocarbons.
In fact, trailing data suggests that active Fixed Income Managers have provided a better value proposition (measured by alpha generated relative to fee paid) than Large Cap Equity managers.
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So is it that Obama Ventures LLC has bought a troubled asset, added value by subsidizing sales and helping to thwart competition, and now has its eyes fixed ahead on the liquidity event of the new General Motors IPO?
So maybe there's value for the chancellor in advertising to the world that he could if he wanted borrow with no fixed repayment date, such is the stability of British democracy and the UK's record of paying its debts.
Andy notes in his most recent report that value-added for larger industrial firms and fixed asset investment rose at a pace consistent with 8 to 8.5 percent GDP growth.
This trend has been reinforced by the UK's largest lender, the Halifax, which will increase the interest rate on its new three-year fixed-rate deal for customers who want to borrow between 75% and 90% of a property's value from 13 June.
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