The price system was a market based and decentralized system.

And of course Billingsgate, famously, was London's fish market, operating on site here until the mid 1980s.

The Notice clearly stated that it is necessary to strengthen price monitoring and early warning and pay close attention to market price dynamics.

As the price performance makes new applications feasible, new applications come to the market.

They are allegedly forcibly obliged to sell produce at a price fixed by the authorities that is many times lower than the market price.

Chapter 3. Price control measures Measures intended to control the prices of imported articles for the following reasons (i) to sustain domestic prices of certain products when the import price is inferior to the sustained price (ii) to establish the domestic price of certain products because of price fluctuations in the domestic market or price instability in the foreign market and (iii) to counteract the damage caused by the application of unfair practices in foreign trade.

True, market forces have spurred innovation, which has continually driven down the price of processed food, even as the price of plain old fruits and vegetables has gone up. That is a fair point, but it overlooks the huge market failure here.

If you compare it with what's on the market, price wise, size wise, ease of use, complexity ...

Steinhoff is dominant in the neighbouring South African market and might abuse that position dominance in the Zimbabwean market by undercutting prices or becoming a price leader.

Market analysts held that the corn futures price declined on decreasing trading volume, while foreign countries' increased imports of soybeans from the U.S. drove up the soybean futures price.

And that's very important, because so many things hit the market at a price and then drift up.

In the market for fresh vegetables, for example, prices must balance the supply and demand for the current harvest. By contrast, oil producers and others in the industry can keep supply off the market if they think that its price will rise later, or they can put extra supply on the market if they think the price will fall.

Traders seeking Fairtrade certification must pay producers a price that covers the costs of sustainable production and provides a living wage. For example, the minimum price for coffee is 1.26 per pound, no matter how low the market price may fall.

And they come to the market knowing what grades their products will achieve in terms of a price premium.

The high price of oil was governed by the market and was beyond the control of energy exporting countries.

Furthermore, it was decided that further investigations to test the recommended retail price regime were necessary in order to ensure that realistic market prices prevailed in the market in Zambia.

In total, they ordered 1,606 printers for a total price of S  105,996 against a market value of S 6,189,524.

Costa Rica Resale price maintenance, exclusive contracts in the market for carbonated non alcoholic beverages and bottled fruit juice 9

Costa Rica Resale price maintenance, and exclusive contracts in the market for carbonated non alcoholic beverages and bottled fruit juice.

This price is 40 per cent higher than the one that could have been obtained in the United States market.

Iran calculates the monetary value of the losses by multiplying part of the losses in catches by an estimated export market price, and part of the losses by local market prices.

The IMF authors are not saying that governments should do this with recession insurance, so perhaps they mean that governments would auction off the policies, which would create a market price. But the market price would depend especially on how much insurance a government decided to auction off, because the supply would influence the price both directly and through the insurance s effect on the underlying recession risks.

Where the enterprise has adequate evidences to prove that the market quoted price of the latest transaction is not a fair value, it shall make appropriate adjustment to the market quoted price of the latest transaction so as to determine the fair value of the said financial asset or financial liability.

Researchers asked a group of people to read a clutch of market commentaries, and then predict the next day's price trend.

This was how central banking got started in the first place letting the market and the market alone determine the price of liquidity was judged too costly for the businessmen who voted and the workers who could overthrow governments. Now it looks as though letting the market alone determine the price of risk is similarly being judged too costly for today s voters and campaign contributors to bear.

A great' year is a year of premium prices (higher than the US price) for steel in the world steel export market.

After the policy was enhanced, officials stated that university students are entitled to purchase residential property at a 20 discount to market price .

In part, the size will depend on how much home prices fall amp 45 amp 45 10 ? 20 ? Moreover, it is hard to price losses on exotic instruments that are illiquid (i.e. do not have a market price).

While it is fairly easy to obtain information on the price paid by the importers of a good, it might become difficult to obtain the corresponding price prevailing in the domestic market, especially at a fairly disaggregated level.

It costs, at manufacturing point, six dollars to produce these, and it costs the establishment another six dollars to distribute it, so the market price in a free market would be about 12 dollars per net.

All regions should combine with the actual local situations, practically strengthen the market price supervision of agricultural and sideline products, coordinate with relevant departments to make good efforts in stable production and market supply, and organize forces to carry out market key inspections and random spot checks.

They start to make not only commercial marketing decisions, but also planting decisions, on the basis of information coming from the futures price market.

There is no single recognized reference price for steel, and in the short term prices may differ significantly from one regional market to another.

In my ongoing quest to become better at forecasting, I began, a few years ago, to pay attention to the five year forward oil price as it compares to the Brent crude oil spot price, the price of a barrel of oil today. I suspect that the five year forward price is much less influenced by speculation in the oil market than the spot price, and more representative of true commercial needs.

I believe there is a very good chance that many of these futures markets will soon be predicting substantial price declines in some US cities over the next year. They will be in what traders call backwardation the future price in the market today is lower than the price of a home today.

We welcome the proposal to ease supply side constraints and commodity price shocks in order to take the fullest possible advantage of increased market access.

This vulnerability is currently being further stretched by the threat to our banana industry as a consequence of the changing market regime and altered market conditions in Europe and by the massive increase in the price of oil internationally.

In addition to devaluing, China announced that the opening fix the price at which trading of the renminbi would commence each day would be largely based on the previous day s closing market price. Because the PBOC had been setting the opening fix pretty much wherever it wanted, this change could be seen as moving the renminbi toward a more market determined exchange rate.

But now it appears that, despite all this, we still have not had enough central planning in finance. For, even as the central banking authority administered the price of liquidity, the price of risk was left to the tender mercies of the market.

Farmers now, who used to have to spend half a day of backbreaking labor to find out if the market town was open, if the market was on, whether the product they'd harvested could be sold, what price they'd fetch.

The officials and diplomats of the European Commission still hoped that market forces would persuade Italy to adjust its budget plan before Italy officially submitted it to the European Commission in mid October.

Yet a critical moment in the crisis came when, shortly after the mid September 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers, a money market fund broke the buck and couldn t pay 100 cents on the dollar. Of course, it was bailed out along with all the other money market funds.

But market forces alone are unlikely to solve the unprecedented levels of labor market exclusion that developed from the mid 1970 s to the early 1990 s. The prevailing belief in a reliable tendency to return to some normal degree of inclusion has little ground to stand on.

No evidence exists that this happened. Prices did converge during the implementation of the Single Market program, in the early 1990 s, but then price convergence stopped.

However, when the market price of these fish are included in the calculations of their value, the island nations earn as little as 2 percent per ton.