Sentences with phrase «when pricing power»

When pricing power is improving rapidly, it can accept companies with somewhat lower balance sheet quality.

Not exact matches

In Southern California, a company called Advanced Microgrid Solutions is spearheading a project that involves replacing the energy that was once provided by a large (now decommissioned) nuclear power plant with a series of solar arrays and batteries that AMS can turn on and off based on when the prices for conventional energy are low and when there's the most demand.

But when it comes to the place to settle down, Deutsche Bank pointed to Wellington in New Zealand at the top of the quality - of - life index, based on eight variables: purchasing power, safety, healthcare, cost of living, house price - to - income, commuting time, pollution and climate.

Rising commodity prices and international trade also put a wedge between producers» prices (what firms receive when they sell the goods and services they produce — this is the price firms use to calculate the real wage that tracks productivity) and consumer prices (what consumers pay to buy stuff — the lower they are, the greater workers» purchasing power).

Beginning with those officials, antitrust regulators in general worried about corporate power only when it led to increases in the consumer prices.

The power generation side usually suffers when prices are soft.

Maybe you still remember the days when competitive advantage was all about economies of scale, advertising power and service versus price.

And pricing power becomes a concern when it's Amazon (or another platform company) that owns the customer relationship, as evidenced in the retail sector, where big brands have sought to build their own direct - to - consumer sales channels to offset the impact of Amazon's pricing power.

Hargreaves Lansdown's Laith Khalaf: «There are clear benefits from the two supermarkets joining forces, particularly when it comes to leveraging their combined buying power, which should result in both lower prices for customers and higher margins for the business.

Being bigger gave them more pricing power when dealing with oil service contractors and greater leverage when negotiating with foreign governments.

When will the telecom industry regain pricing power and begin to reap the rewards of its investment to build out 4G and fiber infrastructure?

Now I read, again, how inflation is induced by high oil prices and I have to wonder, what happens as oil becomes rare, what will the Fed do when hiking rates does not improve the purchasing power of the dollar?

Calpine's deal comes at a time when the U.S. wholesale power generation industry is struggling with margin pressure as cheap natural gas from shale fields in recent years has been driving down electricity prices.

Large price spikes immediately before and after mid-day periods when both utility - scale and distributed solar generation reaches its peak level suggest a need for dispatchable generation sources to help cover ramping periods, when the need for power from the grid to meet load is rapidly changing.

But when higher oil prices really pull into port, the ripple effect of inflation across every part of the economy will weaken the dollar's purchasing power.

When looking at a business, Warren Buffett has long espoused pricing power as the most important determinant, which coincidentally is something steel companies don't have.

First, when rising inflation causes price increases, it erodes the purchasing power of future interest payments.

When someone says «my restaurant failed since costs were to high» what they are really saying is that they could not raise their prices since they had no pricing power.

When they've invested in clean power, technology costs have dropped to the point that clean electricity is beating out fossil power on price alone in a growing number of jurisdictions.

Energy storage will also release stored power during periods of high demand in the early mornings and evenings, when power prices are at their highest — another negative to the bottom line of gas - fired plant owners.

If your goal in life is to be 100 % invested in stocks that return 10 % or better while you own them - I think focusing on just researching stocks with market power and then trying to buy them when they get to a reasonable price is a good strategy.

And when creditors turned their economic gains from this process into political power to shift the tax burden onto wage earners and industry, this raised the cost of living and doing business — by more than technology was able to lower prices.

Apple confirmed its pricing power with customers recently when Apple CEO Tim Cook said that initial orders for the iPhone X — its most expensive iPhone yet — were «very strong.»

This predictive power is strong for speculative stocks with highly subjective valuations (small - capitalization stocks, stocks without positive earnings, growth stocks and stocks that pay no dividend), because their prices tend to be most overvalued when sentiment is high.

When «eternities are demanded of life,» the powers of the earth readily pay the price of death in order to force life to deliver on the demand.

When food has doubled in price over the last few years, this cuts their spending power in half, and decimates their ability to pay their way out of debt they were forced to seek to survive.

«They were in one place, they were of one accord, they were of one heart, they had one purpose, they had one vision... When we have the unity of Acts, we'll have the power of Acts,» he told the audience,» We're just not willing to pay the price for Pentecost.

Elizabeth Schiltz (chapter eight) looks at the tensions between family and work, an increasingly difficult issue for many families today when, as Erika Bachiochi says, «the financial power of the two - income family has driven up the price of all life's necessities».

In a statement of claim filed on Thursday in the Federal Court, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) alleged that in early 2008 Colgate - Palmolive, PZ Cussons Australia and Unilever conspired to coordinate pricing, package sizes and product formulations when introducing ultra-concentrate detergents for popular brands including Cold Power, Radiant and Omo.

A former chief executive of Foster's Group, Trevor O'Hoy, told Fairfax Media on Thursday morning the wave of mega-mergers was being driven by two main factors, the declining appeal of commercial, mainstream beers around the world and the rising power of retail chains who are increasingly calling the shots when it comes to pricing.

4.90 If firms with substantial market power were effectively prevented from acquiring small firms, this would affect the ability of smaller businesses to realise a reasonable price for their business when seeking to exit the industry.

Alcohol distribution (concern about «duopoly» pricing), lease arrangements (landlord power), unconscionable conduct (wants clear definition), review websites (wants code of conduct), ACCC (increase capacity to investigate re: unconscionable conduct; improve customer - service focus of ACCC when responding to small business)

Yes, thats need to change even when he used to have Dick Law as transfer negotiator still was him doing it remotely send him out to close / push deal to the finish line and wenger has already price it not a selling club and end up loose a lot of new players they need to take power away from and have him concetrate on training / pitch he does not also get along with super agents, Raiola, Pini Zahavi, Mendes those represent big number of good players but now Sanllehi will take care that section

in the case of our club the powers that be sees us as a necessary evil... believe me if they could figure out a way to take our money without ever having to deal with us they would... instead they simply gauge our concerns then manufacture an aggressive PR campaign addressing said concerns so as to sell season tickets and the like... so whether it's about Sanchez staying, transfer budgets, lengthy player injuries, club expectations etc... this team has treated us like a petulant teenager that should be seen and not heard, which is a completely disrespectful way to treat incredibly loyal fans who pay some of the highest ticket prices in the world... this is why this team doesn't get the benefit of the doubt, this is why they don't get a pass when they screw up and this is why they don't deserve our respect when it comes time to show them the door... that time is NOW

We have some amazing prices for Premier League football tickets this season and fans can take full advantage of our Leicester City v Arsenal tickets for when the teams play at the King Power Stadium.

Priced at around $ 1199 it is by no means a cheap machine, but it is worth if if you are like me and need power when you travel.

White privilege accords them the power to choose when to «be local» (price of goods and services, relationships with locals) and when to «be foreign» (better salary, easy travel, entry anywhere, exit anytime) and the peace of mind never to critically engage with the disparities between the two.

We do not know why this mattered so much, but it has become a talisman of liberal radicalism, to be implemented in that split second opportunity when the party might hold a balance of power in the Commons and «name its price».

The Tories will issue their strongest warning about the dangers of a post-election pact between Labour and the Scottish National party when they accuse Ed Miliband of preparing to abandon Britain's nuclear weapons as the price of securing power.

Rail fare rises under Tories are «truly staggering» — Andy McDonald MP Labour compared costs on over 180 routes between when the Conservatives came to power and new prices that... Read more

On the news of Nigeria exiting recession being celebrated by the Federal Government, the governor wondered why the price of foodstuffs like rice had not reduced to N7, 000 per bag that it was when Buhari took over power.

He added that the country was in a terrible shape when the administration came into power in 2015, with oil prices falling to as low as 37 dollars per barrel, from peak periods of over 100 dollars in previous years.

Here's an offer from Scottish Power offering a price freeze until January 2017 (which is when Ed Miliband's proposed freeze would run out).

Let us compare that with capital releases to the same ministries in 2017, when oil price was between $ 50 and $ 60 a barrel, N415bn for power, works and housing, N80bn for transportation; N65bn for agriculture; totalling N560bn, at a time when we were earning at least 50 per cent less than we were earning in 2014.»

He wishes the plan came along two years ago, when Upstate nuclear plants started struggling to compete with low - price power from natural gas plants.

The switches could be programmed to shut off when power demands on the grid (and hence electricity prices) peaked.

Given the right financial incentives, though, many households may accept smart grid strategies that let utilities reduce power consumption in homes at peak periods of demand, when wholesale electricity prices are highest, some analysts conclude.

The result is that you can use large amounts of energy at night to heat up the thermal mass of the building, after which you can turn off the heating altogether in the morning peak and during the daytime, when the total power consumption and energy price are at their highest.

Eliminating this financial risk premium makes nuclear power levelized electricity cost competitive with that of coal, and it becomes lower than that of coal when a modest price on carbon dioxide emissions is imposed,» the report says.

Arias says Torresol can either run the plant until the battery is exhausted, or it can modulate the power of the turbine during darkness so it is at its maximum between 11 and 11.30 pm, when electricity demand — and price — peaks, «so we are able to reach the next day without stopping the turbine».