Sentences with phrase «called price fixing»

Heinz It is called price fixing and because of the attitude of many agents we will be having the CB on our backs for many years.

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The hefty price tag likely raised some eyebrows among Congress members, but Trump is right in aiming high to fix the country's «crumbling infrastructure,» as he calls it.

Here's a quick review of how they work: An ETF of, say, three stocks writes (sells) call options on the three firms at a fixed «strike» price and for a premium.

While the prices of the license packages and the cycles remain fixed variables, the so - called frequency increases steadily.

This entails buying put options, which give the owner the right to sell the stock at a specified price at a fixed future date, while selling call options, which give the acquirer the right to buy the stock at a set price.

Because the company has a call option that it can (and will) use to its own benefit (and to the shareholder's detriment as its counterparty), preferred shares end up offering all of the potential price downside of long - term fixed income securities, with only a small amount of the potential price upside.

Ms Scott spoke by phone to Mr Joyce yesterday, but said he did not map out the long - term fix in the milk price system her petition called for.

De Blasio has also resisted congestion pricing in Manhattan, saying it's inconceivable and calling instead to fund fixes to city transportation infrastructure through a so - called millionaires tax.

The Fix NYC plan calls for a staggered implementation of congestion pricing focused on Manhattan south of 60th Street that would first add new surcharges for companies like Uber and Lyft — between $ 2 and $ 5 per trip — and new tolls for commercial trucks.

The 36 - page plan, suggested by a 16 - person advisory panel Fix NYC, also called for charging ordinary drivers $ 11.52, the same price it costs E-Z Pass users to cross the Verrazano Bridge from Brooklyn to Staten Island or a round - trip using other city bridges and tunnels.

While Governor Cuomo is an advocate of congestion pricing to raise funds to fix the subways, Mayor de Blasio has called the idea «inconceivable.»

And yet, despite Governor Cuomo calling congestion pricing «an idea whose time has come» last summer, the common - sense fixes recommended by his own Fix NYC panel were largely ignored by the Governor and Legislature in their recently concluded budget negotiations.

Congestion pricing has been in political limbo for weeks since Fix NYC, a state task force assembled by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, called for charging a daily fee — $ 11.52 for passenger cars — to drive into a congestion zone in Manhattan from 60th Street south to the Battery at busy times, as part of a plan to reduce gridlock on the streets and raise money for the struggling subway below.

That is why I have founded the e-petition website PetrolPromise.com — powered by software from Right Angle — to call for an investigation into the UK oil market, after allegations of price - fixing at the pumps.

Now a state task force, called Fix NYC, has been assembled with the goal of developing another congestion pricing plan.

He said later this week his office would release a long - term plan called «Fix NYC» that includes a congestion pricing plan for commuters driving to different zones of New York City.

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My truck was towed into the Mercedes - Benz dealership on Monday January 15th I was told that I would be able to get a loaner on the next day which would have been January 16th I understand due to all the bad weather that they may have not been open on the 16th of January so I didn't worry about it on the 17th when I called to see what was going on then turn tell me they were trying to see if they could get the warranty company to pay for the part which I was told was $ 1,400 by Frankie at this time I asked him what about a loner car well he in turn told me that it wouldn't take but a day to put the part on because they already had I was already been inconvenience because my truck is there I have no transportation and I work for the hospital so I have to get back and forth to work so after Saturday morning of my mom's passing I called the dealership and spoke with the young lady and she told me all the time cars had been taken for people that had appointments for them now at that point I'm thinking to myself while I'm a customer as well why wasn't I call to pick up a rental car so she in turn told me that she wouldn't have the manager call me back and indeed he did call me back but when he call me back he let me know that they did have a loaner cars and that they would be closing in 30 minutes well I live in Pearland and they're over by Greenway Plaza so that was no way I would have made it to get a car and he let me know that they're trying to wait to see what the warranty company it's going to do don't steal mind you I don't have a loaner car due to the fact they were closing in 30 minutes and I needed to get a ride back all in the same token my mom has passed so he went on to say that he had spoke with Brian from AutoNation Chrysler Jeep and he had told him that he would give him the family discount which was $ 1,200 if they were going to fix the car now mind you if the warranty company is going to fix the car they're going to charge them $ 1,200 but I was told by Frankie that I had to pay $ 1,400 to have this car fixed that I've only had two months that I had a 90 day warranty on but it doesn't cover the port so once he told me he was charging AutoNation Chrysler Jeep the 1200 I told him I didn't think that was fair to me that I would have to pay 1400 at that point when he noticed he had told me the price he would on to say that oh well it may be 1200 or it may be a little lower than 1200 and I informed him once again had to prepare things for my mother's funeral and then have to come up with $ 1,200 on repairs for a car I've only had two months I really don't think it's fair and if I have to pay the 1200 I'll have to I'll just have to come out of pocket with it but I will take it as high as I have to because if you have a 90 day warranty the car came from Mercedes - Benz Greenway Plaza someone should make it right.

Ford parts and service centres are abundant, so there could barely be a more convenient car to own in that respect, and Ford offers fixed price servicing plans called Ford Protect Service Assure.

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Kia offers a fixed - price servicing package called Kia Care - 3, which covers the Sorento's first three services, while Kia Care - 3 Plus expands that to five services.

Called Care By Volvo, it's a glorified lease scheme that rolls in a number of other factors, including servicing and maintenance, to give peace of mind and fixed - price motoring.

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The new pricing strategy is called agency - lite, which mandates these stores sell e-books at a fixed cost.

Jolly Numnbers tells me that can be reduced to a fixed price I will call P1 (see post above.)

But when I read the discussion that took place over the weekend at Paidcontent.org between Mathew Ingram and Laura Owen that is described as a «smack - down,» I scratch my head and wonder if anyone can make something more than an emotional and nostalgic argument to defend a practice (the likely illegal price - fixing scheme called «agency pricing «-RRB- that is just such a «subsidy» model.

France's fixed price law, called the Lang Law, was established in 1981 and says that publishers decide on the retail price of their books.

One last fact: Even after the price - fixing issue called «agency pricing» is settled and over, nothing prevents publishers from charging Apple and Amazon and any other ebook channel that comes online between now and forever, whatever price they want for an ebook.

German book prices are governed by the so - called Fixed Price Law / Agreement («Buchpreisbindung»), which basically dictates that a specific book has to be sold at the same price in all outPrice Law / Agreement («Buchpreisbindung»), which basically dictates that a specific book has to be sold at the same price in all outprice in all outlets.

Amazon plays a similar game, one we might call price - pressuring rather than price - fixing.

While the fixed book price law calls for unified pricing for the same title, publishers have gotten around this in the past with book club editions or other «special» editions.

Let's hope the real lesson learned here is that this is what you get when you illegally collude to fix prices and the U.S. justice system actually calls you out on your crime.

It's because of a thing called «agency pricing,» and the U.S. Department of Justice are considering suing Apple and the major book - publishers over colluding to fix prices.

The handful of so - called «vertical price - fixing» have produced mixed results — a California court found a cosmetic maker's price controls illegal under state law, while a New York court said that «resale price maintenance» was acceptable for Tempur - Pedic mattresses.

The court ended a long - running legal battle with a big blow to Apple, calling its ebooks price - fixing scheme «the supreme evil of antitrust.»

Calls for big - six publishers to drop DRM have increased in recent weeks, coinciding with the DOJ price - fixing lawsuit.

@Mitzi H. It's called retail price maintenance which was made legal in 2007 although given that pricing is set by Apple, it could be price fixing but Apple doesn't have a monopoly on book sales.

Calls fix the price where a security can be purchased.

May have call provisions allowing the issuer to buy back the securities at a fixed price before the stated maturity date.

Option: A contract that gives the right to a holder to buy (call option) or sell (put option) a fixed amount of a security at a specific price anytime before the stated expiration date (for an American - style option).

The students of history among you will remember that at various points in time it has been illegal for U.S. citizens to own gold, and that on occasion a fixed price has been set when the U.S. government has called it in.

An option, whether it's a call option or a put option, is a contract that basically gives you the right, but not the obligation, to buy one futures contract for a fixed price within a fixed time period.

However, a fixed percentage of the purchase price has to be deposited in the margin account called the

the list of dates on which a fixed - income security can be redeemed prior to maturity by the issuer; also includes the corresponding call prices

Owning calls fixes the price where a security can be purchased, so they can ratchet up in value when a stock rallies or expire worthless if no move occurs.

You receive cash for selling the call, but you're obligated to sell the stock at a fixed price (the strike price) if the holder of the call exercises the... Read More

Calls give you a right, but not the obligation, to buy a stock at a fixed price, for a fixed period.

In general, fixed Income ETFs carry risks similar to those of bonds, including interest rate risk (as interest rates rise bond prices usually fall, and vice versa), issuer or counterparty default risk, issuer credit risk, inflation risk and call risk.

Option An option is simply the right to buy (a «call» option) or sell (a «put» option) a quantity of any asset by an agreed expiry date for a fixed («strike») price.