Not exact matches
Reliable housing market statistics are hard to come
by, but a number of private surveys of home
prices in various cities now
suggest at least a halt to the 20 % annual increases, and in some cases precipitous drops.
A closer look at Market Basket's operations under Arthur T. Demoulas
suggests that its industry - beating 7.2 percent operating margins in 2012, cited
by the Boston Business Journal, derive from six secrets: long - term employee relationships, low overhead, bulk purchasing, low
prices, no debt and treating employees and customers like family.
Rather than being proof of malfeasance
by Sears or gullibility on the part of consumers, that the store sold so few tires at a high regular
price suggests buyers are perfectly able to spot a good deal.
It said bitcoin's bubbles were created
by a combination of hype, mystery, decentralisation and possible insider trading,
suggesting that a small group of bitcoin owners were speculating on its
price and manipulating general investors.
Big data can be used to track and predict customer behavior, which can help companies personalize the shopping experience
by suggesting new products and make more informed
pricing decisions.
Yet a Walker study
suggests this strategy is becoming less and less effective, and that
by 2020
price and product will fall behind customer experience as the biggest brand differentiators.
A separate index
by the Bank of Japan that strips away the effect of energy costs also showed inflation slowing,
suggesting that weak consumption and falling import costs are discouraging firms from raising
prices for a broad range of goods.
Gottlieb
suggested that this opaque structure ultimately leads to higher costs
by thwarting competition, and argued for broader adoption of «biosimilar» drugs to bring down drug
prices.
The valuation report will calculate a
suggested asking
price for your business
by benchmarking it against businesses in the same industry.
When Trump finished yelling at her, she said, she
suggested that he change his ads to say the apartments were the most expensive when measured
by the
price per room.
The sharp jump in debt yields in tandem was mirrored
by a rally in commodity
prices, which
suggests that investors are becoming less worried about the risks of deflation.
By 2035, the IEA models
suggest that we'll need the equivalent of a global carbon
price of $ 120 / tonne, along with some complementary regulations.
Though crude oil fell initially,
prices were up
by the time markets opened on Monday,
suggesting that bin Laden — dead or alive — may not be a key factor in determining oil
prices.
«History, however,
suggests it will be a recession, potentially aided
by the inflationary pressures created
by commodity
prices that will end this commodity bull market,» they wrote.
Indeed, I
suggested Microsoft might kill the whole bad idea and refrain from releasing the device altogether, but sure enough the company soldiered on, only to see the Pro become a big flop, mainly because it delivered none of what people wanted in a tablet — lightness, low
price and good battery life, all of which were ironically established
by Apple.
Packaging loans as bonds could bolster the company's share
price, WSJ
suggests,
by diversifying its revenue stream beyond fee income, which is now its bread and butter.
The
price of a family sedan in Singapore could equal a home in the U.S., and an MIT study
suggested automated cars could potentially reduce the congestion on the densely - populated island
by around 60 %.
If Poloz was correct, and the media only care about
prices when they spike to absurd levels, then let me
suggest that some us are about to make up for it
by working overtime to explain why the Bank of Canada wants to raise interest rates even though core inflation is trending away from the two - per - cent target.
Generally, strong demand for copper (evidenced
by rising
prices)
suggests global growth, while the reverse may foreshadow slowdown.
After all, as Regeneron CEO Len Schleifer pointed out,
pricing a drug to its value would
suggest that its
price shouldn't have to be raised year after year, even if it's
by the single digits.
But cross-country differences in equity returns declined to pre-crisis levels while the range of yields on debt securities issued
by banks and
by non-financial corporations also narrowed,
suggesting that there is some integration at least in
prices of financial instruments.
When Apple chief executive officer Tim Cook unveiled the updated
pricing for the company's new lineup of iPhones on Wednesday, led
by the iPhone 5, he pointed out that the
suggested prices were on two - year contracts.
The rollercoaster ride in oil
prices over the past three years may be old hat to investors familiar with the commodity's historical sensitivity to macro events (see chart below), but oil
price volatility is
by no means endemic and several factors are now lining up to
suggest a calmer period for crude may lie ahead.
With Deutsche Bank
suggesting that the recent rise in cryptocurrency
prices may be directly attributable to instability in those tokens» values, now is a good time for everybody, especially newcomers, to take a step back and think about what they expect to gain
by buying these digital assets.
If share
prices rise after the announcement of the program, it
suggests that employees believe that the chairman's promise to make good on losses is credible and that the losses will be borne
by the chairman and not the company.
But research
suggests that the
price of Chinese goods would rise
by significantly less than 45 percent because companies would hold the line to preserve their market share.
For me the main information coming out of CPI inflation data is that consumer demand relative to total production continues to be too weak to drive up
prices, something confirmed earlier this week
by the August trade numbers, which failed to
suggest strong growth in domestic demand.
Reporting
suggests the company did just this in 2013,
by hiking
prices on scholarly and small - press books and creating the risk of a «two - tier system where some books are
priced beyond an audience's reach.»
In that same interview, he seems to be reaching to square these contradictions,
by suggesting that the Fed's current model — targeting 2 % inflation, a Fed funds rate of ~ 3 %, and an unemployment rate of ~ 5 % — is not reliable and that they should maybe move to a different targeting regime, like
price - level or nominal GDP targeting.
Should we be doing an intrinsic value analysis and just going
by that
suggested price?
They also decided to raise the
price by $ 1 from $ 11.99 to $ 12.99 based on its success last year and on research that
suggested consumers were largely indifferent between $ 11.99 and $ 12.99.
A higher reference
price,
by contrast,
suggests that a company is targeting profits rather than market share and might therefore generate few if any immediate reactions from competitors.
The smartphone market is mature, and soft demand for the $ 1,000 - plus X model
suggests the company led
by Tim Cook has maxed out on
pricing.
One forecast
suggested that
prices will rise
by less than 2 % from May 2017 to May 2018, which is a far cry from the 7 % increase of the previous 12 months.
The so - called January Barometer, as first mentioned
by Yale Hirsch of the Stock Trader's Almanac,
suggests the performance of stocks in the first month of the calendar year dictates where
prices will head for the year overall.
That growth was driven
by both chip shipment growth as well as average selling
price growth,
suggesting that the company shipped a richer mix of products last quarter than it did a year ago.
«It may still be gradual, but not perhaps quite as gradual as
suggested by forward market
pricing.»
Whilst media reports have
suggested a sale
price potential of up to $ 1 billion, the value of the TAB will ultimately be driven
by the licence term and tax rate, which at this point is unknown.
These measures
suggest that
prices increased
by around 2 per cent over the past year, a little higher than the inflation rates seen during 1997 or 1998 (Table 9).
That
suggests that weak domestic demand is becoming an increasingly significant source of disinflationary pressure, adding to the impact from falling world energy
prices and the end of a period of administered
price rises as governments sought to repair their finances
by increasing revenue from sales taxes and charging more for services such as health care.
The available data
suggest nationwide average
prices remained lower than a year earlier, driven
by weakness in Sydney and Melbourne (Graph 25 and Table 7).
A study issued
by CIBC World Markets in March
suggested that a system of carbon tariffs, combined with oil
prices more than $ 100 a barrel, «could reverse the migration of certain manufacturing industries that have left North America for much cheaper labour markets in China.»
Preliminary indications are that the implementation of the tax changes on 1 July proceeded smoothly and that the net tax effects on
prices were broadly in line with (or possibly slightly lower than) those
suggested by prior estimates.
The retail sales data for June
suggest that consumers were,
by then, generally well informed of the
price changes, with large increases recorded in sales of goods that were expected to rise in
price, such as clothing and footwear.
Both series
suggest that house
prices continue to rise most rapidly in Melbourne and Sydney, where
prices have risen
by over 50 per cent and around 30 per cent respectively since mid 1996, according to the REIA data (Graph 18).
This
suggests Bitcoin
price movements are smooth, like a normal distribution, rather than characterized
by fat tails, jumps and changes in volatility like most assets.
In tandem, the era of high oil
prices prompted an increase in saving among oil producers... Using the increase in emerging markets» current account surplus as a guide
suggests the desired saving schedule has shifted to the right
by 1pp as a result of the EM saving glut, which lowers the global real rate
by round 25bps.
The widely cited CoreLogic HPI Forecast
suggests that house
prices in the U.S. will rise
by 5.3 %, year over year, from August 2016 to August 2017.
The skew implied
by options
prices suggests the sort of considerations that investors should have at present.
Rebounding commodity
prices helped lift the trade account into the black, and the data
suggest that the economy might avoid a technical recession after shrinking
by 0.5 % in Q3.