price buyer

The more shares available for sale at a given time, the lower the price buyers will pay.

Eventually, interest rates will win this war" if they continue to rise and price buyers out of the market.

So the prices buyers actually pay for many foreign cars have actually been dropping.

Or have the auction houses miscalculated the prices buyers are prepared to pay?

There is often a direct city or Federal grant as well, so that the economic cost of the housing is higher than the price buyers pay.

Shared-cost effect: The smaller the portion of the purchase price buyers must pay for themselves, the less price sensitive they will be.

Further muddying the picture on prices is the fact that with demand strong, rebates are shrinking in the auto industry, driving up the prices buyers actually pay.

But avoid excessive cost-cutting - you need to maintain spending in essential areas, otherwise the business suffers and so does the price buyers will be prepared to offer.

(In Manhattan, where land costs have risen to reflect the housing prices buyers will pay, market-rate condominiums usually sell for at least $300 a square foot.)

Individuals who trade at night are likely to find that with fewer people active in the market, the spreads will be wider between the prices buyers pay and those sellers get.

To purchase an item at its current price buyers can click the "Catch it Now" button to finalize the transaction and the quantity purchased is taken off the market.

"We are going after the price buyer," Mr. Pittman said, adding that Compuserve would accept lower profit margins than AOL.

It is accepted practice for underwriters to try to gauge the market for new offerings, and that includes seeking to learn the maximum price buyers would pay and whether they planned to hold the shares or sell them quickly.

Crackdown on Bond Prices Buyers of municipal bonds beware: The Federal Government is cracking down on an illegal price-gouging practice in which bond underwriters overcharge municipal issuers for the securities that are used to set up bond escrow funds.