All else being equal, their argument goes, investors who pay the lowest price will receive the highest returns in the long run.

About 14,000 people who had paid higher prices for 1998 models received refunds of $300 to $960.

Despite the gain, the department's "prices received" index for farm commodities was 1.3 percent lower than a year earlier.

Neither their production nor the price they receive for their milk has changed because of the upheaval in the city.

On the delivery date, the arbitrageur hands over the underlying, and receives the agreed forward price.

But the department's revised "prices received" index fell about 2 percent from the record level set in January.

If the price received for the shares is lower than your average cost, you realize a loss.

He paid the price asked, and received the properly attested documents of sale.

For the second day in a row, prices received a boost overnight from Japanese investors.

The price received for selling the call is used to buy the put-one pays for the other.