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Those contracts still allow the company to deploy equipment on short-term spot-market jobs when the contracted customer isn't using its services, allowing it to broaden its customer base and in some cases add new contracts.

C&J Energy Rises in Debut Lynn Cowan 2011

In order to justify the expense of new plants, generation companies say they need higher prices for the power they sell through contracts—prices that are being depressed today by low prices of natural gas, used to generate nearly half of the state's supply—or higher spot-market prices.

Supply Pinch in Texas Tests Electricity Rules Rebecca Smith 2011

Introduced mainly to suit Chinese steelmakers seeking to cut costs, the new system bases contracts on current quarterly or monthly spot-market price averages, instead of on prices in a previous quarter.

Vale Profit Falls on Woes in Europe Diana Kinch 2012

As a result, the European spot-market price for gas has been below the key German border price for most of this year.

Gazprom and the Rule of EU Law Alan Riley 2011

During the fourth quarter, Chinese steelmakers pressured Vale to move to a new system for calculating contracted iron-ore prices, based on the current spot-market prices, instead of the backward-looking system based on a previous quarter.

Showing Quirky Love for Valentine's Day John Kell 2012

Analysts and the industry track the average annual spot-market price as a gauge of the profitability of mining companies' existing projects and new ventures.

Market for Iron Ore Likely to Soften Diana Kinch 2012

The authorities will limit the positions in Kospi 200 options and futures for each brokerage account held by an institutional investor to 10,000 contracts on option expiry dates, which they say is the equivalent of about 1.3 trillion Korean won $1.15 billion in spot-market trade, regardless of the nature of such positions.

Financial Briefing Book: Jan. 12 2011

NEW YORK—Thomson Reuters Corp. handled more foreign-exchange spot-market trading than its main rival EBS for a third straight month in January, as dwindling trading in the Swiss franc and the yen weighed on EBS volume figures.

Quieter Trading Tilts Broker Ranks Stephen L. Bernard 2012

The authorities will limit the positions in Kospi 200 options and futures for each brokerage account held by an institutional investor to 10,000 contracts on option expiry dates, which they say is the equivalent of about 1.3 trillion Korean won $1.15 billion in spot-market trade, regardless of the nature of such positions.

South Korea To Tighten Derivatives Rules Se Young Lee 2011

"They could be exposed to more day-by-day spot-market volatility since they have to buy more often," says Michael Swanson , an agricultural economist at Wells Fargo & Co.

Restaurants Test New Ways to Shop Julie Jargon 2011