Sentences with phrase «boost consumer prices»

Toronto - Dominion Bank sees as many as 90,000 jobs lost by the end of the decade from the move and Eric Lascelles, chief economist at RBC Global Asset Management, says higher minimum wages across Canada could boost consumer prices by 0.5 percent over two years.

Not exact matches

While fluctuations in the global price of coffee on the commodity markets led industry behemoth Starbucks to boost its per - cup price tag last month, a growing share of consumer dollars are going to higher - cost specialty or craft coffee.

It's that latent message in the otherwise altruistic campaign that will both resonate with consumers looking for high - end apparel and allow Patagonia to boost its prices.

«Our view has been that the boost to real incomes from lower energy prices — and its positive impact on consumer spending — would offset the drag from energy - related investment, resulting in gains for US GDP growth on net,» Hui Shan and Zach Pandl said in their report.

«Cosmetics boost the awareness of a brand, especially in emerging markets because they are the first thing of luxury [that] emerging market consumers buy due to their cheaper price,» said Nicola Ko, senior luxury analyst at Ledbury Research.

The FCC is forcing consumers and businesses to pay a huge price in order to boost the profits of telecommunications and cable companies.

In addition, metals warehousing has drawn attention due to allegations that banks and merchants have tried to game the London Metal Exchange (LME) warehousing rules, deliberately creating bottlenecks for aluminum consumers such as drinks can makers to boost storage income, while raising physical prices.

Oil prices showed no sign of fading though, having added as much as 3 % on Wednesday after a third surprise weekly drop in U.S. crude stockpiles boosted the demand outlook in the world's largest oil consumer.

This strong demand has helped to boost airline ticket prices — especially compared with other consumer goods, as depicted above.

The dramatic drop in oil prices to $ 40 - 60 in the past four years after a decade of $ 100 per barrel oil has lessened consumer concerns about gasoline prices and boosted SUVs and truck sales.

That was when governments first attempted to restrict supply of agricultural products in order to boost prices for farmers, and thus force high prices on consumers.

Sven Eenmaa, who covers the stock for Stifel, said that while savings on lighting projects from lower commodity prices will get passed on to consumers over time, Acuity Brands should see a near - term boost.

While the new Polish government continues to push for further rate cuts to boost falling consumer prices, its real worry may be Poland's strong zloty.

Excluding fresh food, consumer prices fell by 0.2 per cent over 2004, with a boost from higher energy prices.

Inflation is expected to fall to close to zero in 2015, but growth should be revised up as falling oil prices help boost consumer spending in the eurozone.

The oil price drop will act as a sizable tax cut for the global consumer, and this should begin to boost growth well into 2015.

Coles managing director John Durkan says multinational food and grocery suppliers are still treating Australia like «Treasure Island», charging consumers premium prices to boost earnings and fund their Asian operations.

Rather than pushing volumes and price to boost sales, CCA will focus on increasing the numbers of transactions — selling more often to consumers and retailers — and offering a better mix of products and prices.

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Consumer surveys also confirmed that CCA had dropped the ball on brand Coke — pushing pack sizes and prices too high in a bid to boost volumes and sales, without communicating the benefits.

Mondelez, which also makes Philadelphia cream cheese and Natural Confectionery Co lollies, has been cutting costs and trimming investment on research and development to boost margins in the face of pricing pressure in supermarkets, increasing competition from retailers» private label brands, and changing consumer eating habits.

The strong prices boosted the kiwi, which was bad news for exporters but good for the New Zealand consumer, at the petrol pump, for example.

Taking a loss on berry price may boost your sales of other produce items by drawing consumers in the door.

That boost is slightly above the Consumer Price Index, a marker for inflation, that has been running about 1.5 percent annually.

The buying behaviours illustrate the efficacy of labelling to enable producers to boost product prices where information is provided to the consumer.

For example, it was the tacit acceptance of the Microsoft DOS / Window standards (fostered by the move by IBM and the Microsoft to license the operating system to other computer - makers) that helped advance the development of the technologies that have helped boost productivity and improve quality of life; free from having to develop their own operating systems, computer makers could now compete on price affordability and wide arrange of features that have benefited consumers.

Publishers had long been unhappy with Amazon's strategy of offering top - selling e-books below their cover prices to boost Kindle sales, a legal but controversial tactic publishers argued set consumers» e-book price expectations at an unsustainable low.

Rebates and discounts are a tried and tested method of boosting sales of a product that has failed to make it to the consumer's wish list and the BlackBerry PlayBook is such a device that is just perfect for such a price reduction treatment.

«The e-book market appears to be worryingly reliant on very cheap prices in order to boost consumer purchases.»

This optimistic outlook prompted the BoC to state that gains in income from lower gasolines prices will be beneficial to consumer and to Canada's economy — with the income gains being used to either «boost current spending or to repay debt or increase savings, thus improving consumers» ability to spend in future years.»

The Internal Revenue Service can only boost limits to keep up with inflation, and with the Consumer Price Index up only 1.2 % over the past year, the IRS can't even increase the caps a little.

Although, as noted by the Task Force, missteps on price can lead to unintended consequences: too low of a price can inadvertently boost demand, while too high a price could shift consumers to seek lower - cost product in the illicit market.

Meanwhile, the brand's ZenFone 4 Pro offers marginal improvements on the strengths of the ZenFone 4, but for most consumers the boost in power won't be worth the uptick in price.

Sprint «s subsidiary Boost Mobile is now retailing the new LG Tribute DYNASTY, an Android smartphone designed to target price - conscious consumers, the company said Friday.

The drop in price has meant lower fuel bills for many consumers, helping boost economic activity in energy intensive countries such as the US.

«Strong home price appreciation has turned into a double - edged sword for the housing market as it boosted the net share of consumers saying it's a good time to sell to a record high, surpassing the plunging good time to buy indicator for the first time in the history of the survey.»

«Despite the looming increase in VAT and the petrol price levy, consumer confidence will receive a much needed boost from the rate cut.

«This increase in prices is offsetting the improvement in other components of the Index that boost consumer purchasing power, including a steadily falling tax burden, a sustained drop in initial unemployment claims over the past several months and signs of stabilization in the housing market.»

Real wages are up 3.9 % from a year ago as falling prices have given a big boost to consumer purchasing power.

Consumers may get an added boost during the year from subdued inflation given the stronger dollar and low oil prices.

«We expect home prices to firm further amid a durable housing recovery, gradually reducing the population of underwater borrowers and helping to boost the share of consumers who say that now is a good time to sell.»