These deals so obscure prices and profits that even participants cannot say what the simplest component of care actually costs, let alone what it should cost.
Titled "Translating Transitions #4," it's possibly the biggest — but most obscure — price tag ever seen.
Yesterday, just days before Mr. Lebed's 16th birthday, the Securities and Exchange Commission accused the teenager of developing a scheme to increase the prices of nine obscure, low-price stocks he had bought by sending numerous optimistic messages to investing chat rooms on the Internet.
The Securities and Exchange Commission accused a 15-year-old high school student of orchestrating a scheme to increase the prices of nine obscure, low-price stocks he had bought by sending numerous upbeat messages to investing chat rooms on the Internet, earning almost $273,000 in illegal gains.
In addition, the complaints assert that Bank of New York Mellon sought to obscure its pricing practices by not providing time-stamped trade confirmations to customers and gave misleading information when it received inquiries about the pricing of foreign exchange transactions.
Presumably to obscure the prices.
Staff members bump you out of the way with giant wheeled racks, obscuring the prices of products that aren't at eye-level and effectively shunting you along without giving you chance to assess which products offer the best value.
As a result, the true cost of university depends more on lifetime earnings than on the fee (which explains why even some obscure universities set prices high).
The shift is helping big traders hide what they are doing in the markets, and regulators are worried that the development could obscure the true prices of stocks and scare away ordinary investors.
But during sunnier hours a small after-work, before-date crowd makes conversation with the bartender and picks its way through the by-the-glass list, where choices are obscure, appealing and priced reasonably in the $5 to $13 range.
NEW YORKER Stock Trading Moves Into the Shadows | As stock trading moves from established exchanges to private platforms, "the shift is helping big traders hide what they are doing in the markets, and regulators are worried that the development could obscure the true prices of stocks and scare away ordinary investors," The New York Times reports.
