Land pricing is managed by the Kaohsiung local government, although there have been no cases of actual transactions being made.

But then all shopkeepers had to do was ring up less than the actual transaction.

"Concurrently, there has also been a 50 percent decline in the number of actual completed transactions," the report continues.

They were considered legal currency, but were rarely found in actual transactions.

"What we spend our time doing is the actual transaction, the purchase of the failing company's assets," he said.

It appears that it was the period ending June 14 - well before the actual transaction took place.

For commodities, actual transactions of other parties may be reported in a reliable manner.

Some methods of testing prices do not rely on actual transactions.

But Mann had gained no data concerning any actual transaction.

"The effect of the announcement could be just as important as the actual transactions."