Sentences with phrase «call it a price cut»

Analysts from M2 Research and Wedbush Securities have called the price cut «too meagre, too late» considering the console's original inflated RRP - and the fact that it will still be more expensive than the infinitely more versatile PSP 3000.

Still, you can't really call it a price cut when prices start from $ 249.

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Eric Rosenquist, who has a blog called, Adventures in Canadian Cord Cutting, said he cut his satellite TV service in 2012 after the Stanley Cup playoffs due to annual prices hikes.

Other changes included a price cut on the company's rear wheel drive 70 kWh version of Model S, and the new offer of a «Ludicrous Speed Upgrade» for the 85 kWh, all - wheel drive Model S called the «P85D» — the company's most expensive model at $ 105,000 before tax incentives and gas savings as estimated by Tesla.

That's unlikely to come under a Trump administration, whose recent budget proposal calls for a $ 15.1 billion cut to the Tom Price - led Department of Health and Human Services, the department that houses the FDA, the CDC, Medicare and Medicaid, among other government institutions.

CNBC's Jackie DeAngelis reports on the turnaround in oil prices as crude flirts with $ 31 a barrel and OPEC calls for supply cuts.

Walmart has been cutting prices, so - called «price investments» in retail parlance, on hundreds of products across categories, putting pressure on dollar stores.

Intoning lines from a piece called «The Gold Diggers» Song (We're in the Money)» was probably not the best way to assuage concerns that shareholders might be making hay on the back of higher prices and job cuts.

Piper finally slashed its uber - optimistic market call for 2015, cutting its S&P 500 price target from what now...

Woolworths chief executive Brad Banducci has been loathe to issue profit guidance or call out further cuts in prices and boosting service after spending $ 1 billion since early 2015 to regain market share.

That this House: (1) notes with concern the impact on the Dairy Industry of the Coles milk pricing strategy and that: (a) dairy farmers around the country are today seriously questioning their future having suffered through one of the worst decades in memory including droughts, floods, price cuts and rising cost of inputs such as energy and feed; (b) unsustainable retail milk prices will, over time, compel processors to renegotiate contracts with dairy farmers and the prospect that these contracts will be below the cost of production may force many to leave the industry; (c) the fact that supermarkets are now selling milk cheaper than many varieties of bottled water will be the straw that finally breaks the camel's back for many dairy farmers; and (d) the risk of other potential impacts includes: (i) decreased competition as name brands are forced from the shelves; and (ii) the possible loss of fresh milk supplies to some parts of the country as local fresh milk industries become unviable; and (2) calls on the Government to: (a) ask the ACCC to immediately examine the big supermarkets and milk wholesalers after recent price cuts to ensure they do not have too much market power and are not anti-competitive in their behaviour; and (b) support the new Senate inquiry into the ongoing milk price war between the country's major supermarket chains».

Baby Milk Action is calling for permanent price cuts by stopping all the expensive promotional activities.

Baby Milk Action runs a «no promotion — cheaper formula» campaign, calling for permanent price cuts, not promotional ones.

But after John Bercow had called for calm, Corbyn carried on: «When you cut local authority budgets by 40 % we all pay a price in public safety.

They want the government to provide «fair pricing» for rail travel and are calling on the Liberal Democrats to live up to their manifesto promise to cut train fares below inflation by one per cent each year.

«Oxfam is delighted the chancellor has resisted those who called for aid to be cut forcing the world's poorest people to pay the price of the economic recession and bankers» bailouts.

Update (Nov. 20): We've added GameStop's latest offers, like the Star Wars Battlefront Bundle, Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 set, discounts on Transformers: Devastation and Bloodborne, and a price cut on the PS4 camera.

Now Hyundai Australia has announced a new cut - price entry - level variant called the i30 Go, lowering the admission price by $ 960 — from $ 20,950 to $ 19,990 (plus on - road costs).

Called the Honda Fit CX, this seems to be a cut - price entry level model

After waiting for 4 days I called back and she said the same thing when I pressed her for the price quote, she said «maybe about $ 4000 ″ but she had to leave and attend a meeting so we had to cut the phone call short.

While Huawei announced the Huawei MediaPad M5 Pro 10.8 today, they also announced a cheaper version of it without pen, simply called Huawei MediaPad M5 10.8 which cuts the price over the Pro version with $ 100, meaning that it will be launched from $ 399 up to $ 549.

In the ongoing spat between Amazon and Hachette over pricing, Amazon has now called for Hachette to simply cut its e-book prices — a move which, it claims, will lower consumer prices on digital titles and provide writers with a larger paycheck at the same time.

There are lots of interesting possibilities — Kindle sells more and Amazon hits further economies of scale and cuts prices, Amazon feels it should release a new model faster as there's lots of demand, Kindle 2 stock starts running out and Amazon has to make a call on whether to switch to Kindle 3.

Their maker has now cut those prices down a notch, as it usually occurs during a so - called price war.

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RIM's decision to cut the price of the BlackBerry PlayBook comes just weeks after the company said during an earnings call that it would try to be «more aggressive» at promoting its tablet.

Barnes & Noble is calling this round of discounting a «temporary» one, though given the troubles the NOOK range is facing we'd be very surprised if more price cuts didn't follow on afterwards.

The first so - called mini price - war on the e-book reader market occurred last month, when Barnes and Noble cut the cost of the Nook, the broadband versions, to $ 199.

The upper level of the issue price is called the cut - off price (here Rs 275).

In the case of a buyout or some extraordinary event that doubles the stock price, does the seller have the normal time to cover the margin call or will the broker cut their potential loss immediately?

Meanwhile on Wednesday, the Globe likewise warned of «price skirmishes» after Loblaw's announced during an analyst call that it would follow the lead of other chains, like Sobeys and Metro, and cut some prices this summer.

If cutting off cable seems too drastic, consider calling your cable carrier once a year to inquire about better priced packages and express your disdain with the current rates you're paying.

If the stock price declines further, I'll have the slight cushion of the call premium to cut my losses.

Credit card interest rates fall after Wells Fargo cuts APRs — In what it called a «competitive pricing» move, Wells Fargo drove down the average rates on new credit cards this week by lowering the rates on four of its credit cards.

You guys are smoking something really good if you think Xbox 1 or ps4 is going to sell more then wii u this holiday lol... mostly every big 3rd party game is coming out on current gen or wii u this holiday... ac4, batman, rayman, splinter cell, watch dogs, call of duty, etc so most people won't even be upgradeing like that yet when mostly all the same games will be out across all consoles... Nintendo got all of them games then there games zelda, pikmin, wonderfull 101, Mario, etc and there ain't no game on ps4 or x1 that's going to sell more then Mario!!!!!! That's a fact... and to top it off we know the wii u is going to get a official price cut right before x1 and ps4 launch... and you guys still think they going to sell more lol... now the next holiday of 2014 that's the real question will nintendo still have some 3rd paty games and there games to hold off the next halo or god of war etc????

They ignored calls for a price cut, and when they made one, it was small.

Cut it down to half price for people who only wants Online play and Party Chat and full for them who also wants this broken «so called» deal with «free games» each month.

The exhibition features everything from hand - cut cards by Haring to newsletters for a screening series called the «Monster Movie Club,» whose members included Vincent Price and the punk band the Misfits.

So - called «revenue - neutral» carbon pricing — whereby the proceeds are used to fund tax cuts — has long been a cherished hobbyhorse of free - market economists and the odd Republican who favors climate action.

Opposition Leader Steven Marshall called for taxpayer spending on battery storage, while Premier Jay Weatherill quoted a 10 - year - old opinion column written by Malcolm Turnbull in which the Prime Minister described as «bullshit» suggestions that it was possible to cut carbon emissions without increasing the price of power.

Why you should relax: OPEC head Drilling chief calls bottom on U.S. oil Pro: Energy investors should prepare for $ 60 oil Crude oil hasn't bottomed yet, traders say OPEC cuts oil price forecasts as «price war» bites T Boone Pickens: The real problem with oil

Many of the world's nations are banking on a scheme called REDD which puts a price on trees so they're more valuable standing than cut down.

August 28, 2017 / 4:16 AM / 2 days ago From Reuters Reuters Staff SYDNEY (Reuters)-- Australia could adopt a clean energy target by the end of the year, heeding the call of national energy providers and scientists as a means to cut carbon emissions and cap soaring power prices.

If we can publicize the study which found that ethanol would increase gasoline prices and cut supplies, it might generate editorials and phone calls to legislators.

But then Skype cut its price to zero, announcing free calling to all landline and mobile -LSB-...]

But then Skype cut its price to zero, announcing free calling to all landline and mobile phones in the U.S. and Canada, at least through the end of this year.

You can skip down below to see our choices and explanations in depth, but it's important to note that permanent price cuts have brought the so - called traditional VR headsets more closely in line with one another.

The iPhone 8 (or iPhone Pro, or iPhone X, or whatever it ends up being called) gives Apple a way to cut the price of the iPhone while still offering a premium - priced product to those who feel it's worth the money.

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