"settlement prices" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase when referring to the prices at which an agreement is made between two trading parties. For example, "The settlement prices for the wheat futures contracts were higher than expected."
Mr. Taylor manipulated the settlement prices of contracts on the New York Mercantile Exchange on three days in 1998, the commission said.
But Mr. Arnold said that he traded primarily in short-term energy contracts and that Enron valued those contracts based on New York Mercantile Exchange settlement prices, not guesswork models.
The commission said that as a member of the exchange's settlement committee from at least August 1999 to May 2002, Mr. Eisler had been able to manipulate settlement prices of the PSE Technology Index Option contract.
Brett Redfearn, a senior vice president of the Amex, said that last June, when the closing price of the seven Nasdaq stocks in the S.&P. 100 were helping to determine the settlement prices of options on that index, the price of Microsoft shares varied by 31 cents during the final two seconds of trading.
It shows likely percentage changes from the current settlement prices.
The S1homes report compared average asking prices with officially-registered settlement prices.
CME Clearing will process any transfers at the last settlement price at the request of customers.
"Every time they are able to win in court, that settlement price goes down".
On Monday, oil for February delivery climbed about 3 percent to $81.51 a barrel, the highest settlement price since Oct. 9, 2008.
Buried in the instructions to determine the settlement price was a formula that read "(Closing Level – Strike Level) x Index Currency Amount x Exchange Rate".
The New York Mercantile Exchange, which was trading only electronically on Monday, will combine Monday's and Tuesday's trading sessions because of the holiday, with a single settlement price issued on July 6.
