Sentences with phrase «cost advantage over»

They had a 20 percent cost advantage over integrated mills.

Gasoline, coal, and natural gas usage will inevitably decline as carbon's cost advantage over alternatives lessens or disappears.

The new balanced ETFs offer a similar cost advantage over robo - advisors, most of whom add an additional 0.50 % fee to the cost of the underlying ETFs.

You pay brokerage commissions to buy and sell them, but their low management fees give them a cost advantage over most mutual funds.

However, ETFs» low management fees still give them a cost advantage over most conventional mutual funds.

For RRSP investors, the $ 79 annual fee may wash out any cost advantage over low - cost discount brokers.

You pay brokerage commissions to buy and sell them, but their low management fees give them a long - term cost advantage over most mutual funds.

This option might be especially attractive if you use mutual funds with no transaction fees, giving them a cost advantage over ETFs, which generally require trading commissions.

By preventing a real estate bubble, this will hold down the economy's housing and commercial space - rental charges, thereby adding doubly to China's creation of a structural cost advantage over industrial economies that have turned into finance - capitalist economies dominated by the FIRE sectors rather than industry.

He's giving the rest of the world — Europe and Asia — a cost advantage over American producers, at the same time he's raising the cost of living for American consumers.

If China runs a current account surplus with the United States, for example, the assumption is that Chinese manufacturers have a fundamental cost advantage over American manufacturers, the result of which is that American households and businesses find it cheaper to import Chinese goods than to buy American goods, and Chinese households and businesses find it cheaper to buy Chinese goods than to import American goods.

Wage and benefit increases of 15 to 20 percent per year at the average Chinese factory will slash China's labor - cost advantage over low - cost states in the U.S., from 55 percent today to 39 percent in 2015, when adjusted for the higher productivity of U.S. workers.

In the future GM will likely import Chinese - made cars into America, giving it a large cost advantage over domestic - made cars.

Best of all, the railroads enjoy a big, and growing, cost advantage over trucks for long - haul shipments.

And if integration failed to yield efficiencies, then the integrated firm would have no cost advantages over unintegrated rivals, therefore posing no risk of impeding entry.

That is based on the network advantages of established relationships plus cost advantages over smaller rivals.

Far from it — the cloud offers innumerable technical and cost advantages over traditional forms of data storage and IT deployment.

Not exact matches

The government did pledge $ 47 billion to infrastructure spending over the next 10 years and extended the accelerated capital cost allowance for manufactures — a tax relief program for investments in new machinery and equipment — by two years, which means stock holders could get a boost if public companies are able to take advantage of this spending and savings.

According to Industry Canada, Big Pharma spends more than $ 1.3 billion a year on R&D — and many global drug makers are increasingly looking at Canada for top talent and a cost - competitive advantage over the United States.

A 2011 World Health Organization review, however, did not find that analogue insulins had any advantage over human insulins, and at about twice the cost, the WHO said they're not worth the price.

This model costs $ 399 and has a big advantage over treadmill desks and other «workout» furniture I've tested before, including one product where you bike using pedals below a normal desk.

If Canadian and American producers all have the same cost of production and transportation, this gives Americans a 20 percent incentive to choose American lumber over Canadian, thus giving American lumber a boost in competitiveness and a home - field advantage.

A commodities boom has driven the Canadian dollar from a 62 cents US low up to parity, vaporizing any labour cost advantage we previously enjoyed over the U.S. and changing the structure of the economy; at the margin, a Canadian worker adds far more to our economy by extracting resources than by building cars.

He said being a small outfit, his firm had a substantial advantage in terms of costs over a private bank.

But its advantage only holds up as long as the supply chains are in China and shipping raw materials and finished goods over the oceans remains cost - effective.

High - end cards can cost hundreds of dollars, but also give you a significant advantage over CPU hashing.

Among those who are failing to get excited about active ETFs, James Peters, CEO of Tactical Allocation Group, managing more than $ 1.5 billion in three ETF - based portfolios, says: «I don't see where they add any compelling value other than being cheaper in cost and having a tax advantage over the traditional mutual fund.»

By using bitcoin as the intermediary for international payments, employers can take advantage of the low costs associated with sending money over the blockchain.

If Canadian and American producers all have the same cost of production and transportation, this gives Americans a 20 % incentive to choose American lumber over Canadian, thus giving American lumber a boost in competitiveness and a home - field advantage.

If your income is over the IRS limits, the only way you can take advantage of a Roth IRA is by converting money from an existing retirement account, such as a traditional IRA.2 There is a cost, though.

ETFs offer advantages over other types of mutual funds in the form of lower costs and increased tax efficiency.

That said, we think over the course of 2018 and 2019 investors could come to appreciate how technology companies with large and compounding datasets will be able to combine their data with machine learning algorithms to create new sources of revenue, reduce costs, build predictive models and create compounding competitive advantages.

If you over manage by changing funds frequently due to market panics, then you lose the dollar cost averaging advantage and possibly find yourself buying high and selling low, a strategy designed to fail.

When it comes to costs of production, Russia and Saudi Arabia have a big advantage over the U.S. Saudi Arabia's production is less than $ 10 a barrel, while Russia also has some production under $ 10, according to Citigroup.

Over the next decade, it'll cost Medicare Advantage members $ 3,030 more on their health insurance premiums.

Globally, the APAC region is an attractive destination for clinical research, with over 50 % of international clinical trials in 2014 having sites in the region, driven by its low cost advantage and patient access.

Thin clients offer many advantages over thick clients — including significant cost savings — so why are thick clients still being used for some processes?

In several fundraisers over the year we will be looking to raise enough money to cover the cost of this advantage, without increasing subs.

Jones said the increase in wages was «nowhere near the level of revenue growth» and this «reflects both the extent of [the Premier League's] financial advantage over other leagues and the impact of domestic and European cost control measures».

«Unlike most other pails, the Ubbi can use regular trash bags — not proprietary refills — an advantage that simplifies everything,» writes Winnie Yang at The Wirecutter, «from changing the bags to buying replacements and also costs you literally hundreds of dollars less over a few years of ownership.»

«Knee length stockings have many practical advantages over thigh length in that they lower the risk of problems and health care costs.

Development of cost - effective means to separate carbon dioxide during the production process will improve this advantage over other fossil fuels and enable the economic production of gas resources with higher carbon dioxide content that would be too costly to recover using current carbon capture technologies, Tour said.

Drug repositioning has several advantages over traditional drug discovery, such as reduced safety risk, side effects, time and costs.

He and McIntyre — who have patented their product — think Greensulate has considerable advantages over competing materials, including cost.

Cadmium - telluride, however, has an advantage over silicon because it can absorb the same amount of sunlight with 98 percent less semiconducting material, thus reducing the overall cost of the solar panel.

Musk explained that «the energy cost of methane is the lowest, and it has a slight ISP [specific impulse] advantage over kerosene and doesn't have any of the bad aspects of hydrogen.»

The cost advantages of thermal storage over electrochemical storage also make a TPV with thermal energy storage (TES) system attractive for converting and storing energy for use on the grid, said Hamid Reza Seyf, a graduate research assistant who did the system modeling.

The organic electronics field is gaining prominence in both academia and industry as devices such as organic light - emitting diodes and solar cells have multiple advantages over conventional inorganic devices, including much lower potential production costs and broader substrate compatibility.

Solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs), based on an oxide ion conducting electrolyte, have several advantages over other types of fuel cells, including relatively inexpensive material costs, low sensitivity to impurities in the fuel, and high overall efficiency.

«A microfluidic device that sorts cells based on their mechanical properties could offer cost and labor advantages over current methods and may provide sufficient enrichment to serve as an alternative or additional approach to antibody - based techniques,» Sulchek says.