If you are selling the stock, it's the bid price.
But if somebody's only offering for him, his car, $ 4,900 or 800, that's the bid price on the market.
The first, the one to the left of the slash (1.2566 in the example),
is the bid price, this is the trader's selling price.
If
their is no bidding price that meets these terms, the property will become repossessed by the bank.
Instead of relying on the most recent, last trading price, a better indication
is the bid price and ask price.
Not exact matches
It
's not just another
bid to lure a younger demographic but also a way to groom future customers to embrace a higher
price point as they climb the corporate ladder.
In 2008, the company made a
bid for Napster, the file - sharing service that had relaunched as a subscription music product, but bowed out when the asking
price was too high.
Energy companies in North America have
been ramping up production in tandem with OPEC's efforts to cut global output in a
bid to take advantage of rising
prices.
The disadvantages
are that you can't market for a fixed
price but must settle for the high
bid; you still have risk if a high bidder reneges; and you
're responsible for packing and shipping.
The takeover
bid for Aquila Resources took an unexpected turn today when a mystery buyer, believed to
be Mineral Resources, spent about $ 192 million buying a large stake in the Perth company, paying well above the
bid price.
Metals X has
been forced to increase the
price it
is paying for Reed Resources» Meekatharra gold project to $ 9.9 million after administrators announced a surprise competing
bid had
been lodged just before a creditors meeting on Thursday.
That last bit on introducing competitive
bidding and direct
price negotiations (presumably in Medicare)
is what
's giving the industry some serious heartburn today.
With
prices no longer rising so strongly, buyers
are getting pickier, and
bidding wars
are falling out of favor.
Not every buyer
was that interested in
bidding, so posted retail
prices emerged and quickly overtook both share in items sold and revenue from auctions.
Shares in T - Mobile and Sprint (
s) tumbled Monday as investors betting on industry consolidation — and higher cell - phone
prices —
bid down the two U.
S. laggards.
When Wright prepares
bid proposals, she uses TTI information on national and regional competitors to estimate what their
bids would
be, and decide how to
price her own or whether to bow out.
«There
's a general agreement among broadcasters that the opening
bid prices that you see registered
are high and that you won't
be getting that,» said Dr. John MacKerron, professor at Towson University who manages student - run WMJF - CD in Towson, Maryland, one of the three sold to HME.
Sky shares
were up 3.8 percent at 13.57 pounds by 1434 GMT - well above the offer
price, implying that some shareholders anticipated a
bidding war.
The markets think that the deal
is now very likely and SABMiller's shares
were trading right near the
bid price.
Spoofing, a form of disruptive trading that
is becoming more common with the entrance of high speed trading,
is a scheme in which false
price bids are entered and then pulled back before anyone can execute them.
The three stations sold
are among those in Blackstone's portfolio with lowest opening
bid prices.
In Toronto, where less than a year ago a rundown semi-detached could sell for $ 100,000 or more over asking
price, the era of the
bidding war
is fading.
Another negative effect of the sequester on Redhorse has
been the mandate that the government put many of its procurements up for
bid under a standard called lowest
price technically acceptable (LPTA), which as its name suggests, basically means the lowest
price possible.
This means fewer buyers
are able to
bid on most businesses, creating less upward
pricing pressure.
Bidding for drug
prices means Medicare has to
be able to decline to cover drugs with unsatisfactory
bids.
The private - equity firm will pay $ 157 a share in cash for Buffalo Wild Wings, which
is 34 % above the company's closing stock
price on November 13, the day before Roark's initial
bid of $ 150 a share.
Competitive
bidding could very well
be an effective way of fighting sky - high drug
prices that
are taking a toll on patients and their families.
Alaska Airlines beat out a rival
bid by Jetblue, and while both carriers
were qualified buyers, the choice came down to
price and meeting Virgin's fiduciary duty to its investors, CEO David Cush told «Squawk Box.»
This service
is often called «immediacy,» and the dealer charges for it in the form of a
bid / ask spread (buying from sellers at a lower
price than he charges buyers).
Treasury
prices pare their gains by the end of Wednesday, pushing yields lower, after rising political tensions lures haven
bids but later offset by signs that inflation
is running higher
Treasury
prices rise, pushing yields lower, on Monday after solid appetite for two batches of government debt auctions see strong
bidding, ahead of what
's set to
be a deluge of sales of government debt in 2018.
Untaxed land value
is paid to banks, which in turn lend their mortgage receipts out to
bid up property
prices all the more — while obliging the government to tax labor and sales, raising the cost of labor and the
price of goods and services.
Instead of financing Social Security and Medicare out of progressive taxes levied on the highest income brackets — mainly the FIRE sector — the dream of privatizing these entitlement programs
is to turn this tax surplus over to financial managers to
bid up stock and bond
prices, much as pension - fund capitalism did from the 1960s onward.
If you purchase directly from the government, you must place
bids for the bonds you want — these
are noncompetitive
bids because you know and agree to the
price you will
be paying.
Moreover, as we note in the report, the quality of a
bid or ask
is determined by more than just its
price.
The trick to
bidding on keywords (because some
are competitive and expensive)
is making sure that the money you
are spending
is not more than the
price of the product or service you
are selling.
But as investors
bid up bond
prices, the yields come down e.g. $ 10 dividend payment on a $ 100 bond = 10 % dividend yield, but if the bond gets
bid up to $ 200, the dividend yield
is only 5 %.
What Alan Greenspan called «wealth creation» turned out to
be asset -
price inflation —
bidding up property values and the stock market on credit.
Anbang
was in a protracted battle for the Starwood hotel chain,
bidding up the
price and drawing scrutiny.
The
bid price was seen as too low in comparison to other deals in the industry.
Google Keyword Planner — Google Keyword Planner
is a tool, part of Google AdWords, created to help advertisers get data about average monthly searchers, competition and
bid prices for keywords.
But today, banks
are creating enough credit to
bid up housing
prices again.
A flurry of reports of takeover interest — the supermarket chain Albertsons and the e-commerce giant Amazon
are reported to have explored
bids — has helped to lift the share
price.
The recent stock market and real estate bubbles
are much like pyramid schemes in the sense that what
is bidding up stock and property
prices is an exponential inflow of new money from pension plans and mutual funds (for shares) and bank credit (for real estate).
This
was strictly a curiosity purchase, the idea of owning something that
was over a hundred years old
was appealing, plus I couldn't go wrong with the
price — winning
bid was $ 2.00 — shipping cost me more.
Spreads (the difference in
price between the
bid and offer)
are among the most narrow available in the bond market.
RK: What you really want to do
is, like selling a home,
price it low and have it
bid up.
OLICK: While interest rates
are still historically low, home
prices are rising very quickly, and
bidding wars
are the rule, not the exception.
The effect
is to
bid up land
prices toward the point where the entire rental value
is paid as interest.
Even if an ETF has no buyers or sellers for several hours, the
bid and ask
prices continue to move in correlation with the market value of the ETF, which
is derived from the
prices of individual underlying stocks.