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Parity
a situation when the price of a commodity, foreign currency, or security is the same in different markets.
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RENMINBI-US DOLLAR EXCHANGE RATE HIT 7.05142 ON MARCH 20
AsiaInfo Services 03-24-2008 Renminbi-US Dollar Exchange Rate Hit 7.05142 on March 20 BEIJING, Mar 24, 2008 SinoCast via COMTEX -- The central parity rate of renminbi against US dollar stood at 7.05142 on March 20, 2008, surging 136 basis points from the prior trading...
Tags: appreciation, Beijing, Federal Reserve Board, FINANCE, parity
Research articles 2008-03-24
Canadian Forex Midday: C$ Weakens Below Parity.
Byline: Resource News International WINNIPEG, MB, Mar 19, 2008 Resource News International via COMTEX -- The Canadian dollar was trading at a significantly lower level versus the US dollar at midday on Wednesday, falling back below parity. Tumbling commodity prices weakened the Canadian...
Tags: parity, SALES
Research articles 2008-03-19
Dealers Clamor for Trading Parity.
The Securities and Exchange Commission could approve fundamental changes to exchange rules that would give specialists and market makers more latitude to compete with exchange customers. Any changes are likely to especially impact dealers on the New York Stock Exchange and the International Securities...
Tags: FINANCE, Government, Investment, NYSE Euronext, parity, Regulations, SEC
Research articles 2007-11-01
Parity rules in baseball
Major League Baseball might not have quite the same parity as the NFL, but it's getting closer. There have been seven different World Series champions since 2000, and three teams this year haven't won a World Series in at least 59 years: the Chicago Cubs (1908),...
Tags: baseball, NFL, parity
Research articles 2007-10-03
Market Talk: No C$/US$ Parity Seen In 2007/08.
Byline: Resource News International WINNIPEG, MB, Jul 12, 2007 Resource News International via COMTEX -- The following is a collection of opinions of traders at the Winnipeg Commodity Exchange and Canadian grain industry representatives. The chances of the Canadian dollar moving to...
Tags: Federal Reserve Board, FINANCE, parity, strategist
Research articles 2007-07-12
Capitalism for the cooperative: the NCAA and NFL model of parity and profit
ABSTRACT Economists have long recognized the cartel behavior of the NCAA. Previous research has addressed the cartel characteristics of monopsony behavior, cheating, member cooperation, and supply limits of the NCAA and its members. Where this paper adds to the literature is the conceptual link between the NCAA and the...
Tags: cartel, league, MLB, NCAA, NFL, parity, revenue, team
Research articles 2007-05-01
Call it parity or mediocrity in NFL, but Birds' hopes not dead
YES, EACH of the major professional sports has too many teams. No, there is not enough talent to adequately stock all of the teams in the NFL, NBA, NHL and Major League Baseball. Without question, the level of talent has been watered down to the point at which we are...
Tags: game, NFL, parity, talent, team
Research articles 2006-11-30
MERGERS : AMBER LIGHT FOR THE GAZ DE FRANCE-SUEZ MERGER.
The European Commission approved, on 14 November, the merger between two French energy giants, Gaz de France GDF and Suez, subject to what Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes called "far-reaching remedies". Major concerns that the merged firm would corner the market for gas and electricity in both...
Tags: asset, Belgium, commission, European Commission, FINANCE, Investment, merger, parity, shareholder
Research articles 2006-11-15
Researchers to Discuss Embargoed Results of Most Comprehensive Study to Date on Parity in Mental Health Insurance Benefits; Findings to Be Published in March 30 New England Journal Of Medicine.
Byline: Harvard University Medical School BOSTON, March 24 AScribe Newswire -- On Thursday, March 30, the New England Journal of Medicine will publish the results of the most comprehensive study to date on the costs associated with parity in mental health insurance benefits for...
Tags: Benefits, HEALTHCARE, parity, professor, SOFTWARE, teleconference
Research articles 2006-03-24
Parity Question Could Stymie Hybrid Approval
The New York Stock Exchange's interpretation of its Rule 108 will either add depth and liquidity to its proposed hybrid market plan or is a sop to specialists that will hurt floor brokers and institutional investors. That's the debate about specialist parity rules dividing specialists and institutional investors, who...
Tags: FINANCE, NYSE Euronext, parity, SEC
Research articles 2006-02-01
Parity Question Could Stymie Hybrid Approval.
The New York Stock Exchange's interpretation of its Rule 108 will either add depth and liquidity to its proposed hybrid market plan or is a sop to specialists that will hurt floor brokers and institutional investors. That's the debate about specialist parity rules dividing...
Tags: FINANCE, NYSE Euronext, parity, SEC
Research articles 2006-02-01
Will the Hybrid Fly? The Big Board has to please both the Buyside and the Floor.
The buyside wants an ECN. The traders on the floor want an electronic replica of the floor. The New York Stock Exchange is trying to please both. Will the hybrid' fly? Will it pass muster with the Securities and Exchange Commission? And, if so, will the buyside...
Tags: board, FINANCE, Investment, liquidity, NYSE Euronext, parity, SEC, trader, upshot
Research articles 2006-01-01
Will the Hybrid Fly? The Big Board has to please both the Buyside and the Floor
The buyside wants an ECN. The traders on the floor want an electronic replica of the floor. The New York Stock Exchange is trying to please both. Will the hybrid' fly? Will it pass muster with the Securities and Exchange Commission? And, if so, will the buyside use it? ...
Tags: board, FINANCE, Investment, liquidity, NYSE Euronext, parity, SEC, trader, upshot
Research articles 2006-01-01
An internal controversy.
Proposals to privatize Social Security intersected with the debate over gay marriage last month when an unnamed representative of the Human Rights Campaign was quoted in the New York Times Dec. 9 as saying the group might support privatization in exchange for parity with spouses in ...
Tags: Benefits, FINANCE, Government, New York Times Co., parity, privatization
Research articles 2005-01-07
Chien-Shiung Wu
Chien-Shiung Wu Among the team of experimental physicists who developed the first atomic bomb for the U.S. government during World War II, Chien-Shiung Wu (1912-1997) spent 37 years as a leading researcher at Columbia University. She was noted for her meticulous experimental work in studying radioactive interactions. Her most famous...
Tags: Columbia University, conservation, parity, physicist, theory, women
Research articles 2005-01-01
Tsung-Dao Lee
Tsung-Dao Lee Tsung-Dao Lee (born 1962) disproved the principle of parity. Tsung-Dao Lee and his colleague physicist Chen Ning Yang developed the revolutionary theory that the unusual behavior of the K-meson a subatomic particle is a result of its violating a supposedly inviolable law of nature, conservation of parity, which...
Tags: Columbia University, parity, particle, physicist, professor, theory, Yang
Research articles 2005-01-01
DOL: mental health parity.(Federal Register)
The Employee Benefits Security Administration extends the sunset date of the regulation implementing the Mental Health Parity Act to Dec. 31, 2005, in keeping with action by Congress. The act mandates parity in annual and lifetime benefits between mental health and medical/ surgical benefits for group...
Tags: Benefits, HEALTHCARE, parity, SOFTWARE, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Research articles 2004-12-24
Rocchi strikes late to deny Villarreal
ROME AFP — Second half substitute Tommaso Rocchi scored a late equaliser to give Lazio a 1-1 draw at home to Spanish side Villarreal in their opening UEFA Cup group stage match. Villarreal, who beat Roma, Celtic and Galatasaray on the way to last season's semi-finals, took the lead...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, parity, villain
Research articles 2004-10-21
Research has proven it and experts have warned--swine influenza virus (SIV)
Research has proven it and experts have warned--swine influenza virus SIV is a costly, year-round disease in U.S. swine herds. True, incidence may spike in fall and spring, but the virus still circulates and infects sows and pigs in summer, according to a press release for Schering-Plough Animal...
Tags: Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Iowa State University, parity, Schering-Plough Corp., SECURITY, SOFTWARE
Research articles 2004-07-05
New push for mental parity; Backers optimistic Senate will pass bill next year.(News)
Byline: JERRY GEISEL WASHINGTON-Congressional sponsors of mental health coverage parity legislation are renewing their effort to get a bill passed. Longtime parity advocate Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., said this month on the Senate floor that a substitute bill is being developed and...
Tags: Benefits, HEALTHCARE, parity, Sen., SOFTWARE, U.S. Senate
Research articles 2003-11-17
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