Sentences with phrase «cost price wars»

The rise of index funds, and the low - cost price wars, has changed much of the financial industry.

Not exact matches

These campaigns can turn out to be unprofitable due to rising advertising costs and price wars.

Absent massive volatility, investors will continue to pour money into the lowest - cost index ETFs as the major players continue their price war.

While it is still uncertain just how much coal - energy prices are expected to rise, Rep. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor has called Obama's initiative a «war on coal,» which he says will cost jobs and hurt businesses.

Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: our ability to achieve our financial, strategic and operational plans or initiatives; our ability to predict and manage medical costs and price effectively and develop and maintain good relationships with physicians, hospitals and other health care providers; the impact of modifications to our operations and processes; our ability to identify potential strategic acquisitions or transactions and realize the expected benefits of such transactions, including with respect to the Merger; the substantial level of government regulation over our business and the potential effects of new laws or regulations or changes in existing laws or regulations; the outcome of litigation, regulatory audits, investigations, actions and / or guaranty fund assessments; uncertainties surrounding participation in government - sponsored programs such as Medicare; the effectiveness and security of our information technology and other business systems; unfavorable industry, economic or political conditions, including foreign currency movements; acts of war, terrorism, natural disasters or pandemics; our ability to obtain shareholder or regulatory approvals required for the Merger or the requirement to accept conditions that could reduce the anticipated benefits of the Merger as a condition to obtaining regulatory approvals; a longer time than anticipated to consummate the proposed Merger; problems regarding the successful integration of the businesses of Express Scripts and Cigna; unexpected costs regarding the proposed Merger; diversion of management's attention from ongoing business operations and opportunities during the pendency of the Merger; potential litigation associated with the proposed Merger; the ability to retain key personnel; the availability of financing, including relating to the proposed Merger; effects on the businesses as a result of uncertainty surrounding the proposed Merger; as well as more specific risks and uncertainties discussed in our most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.cigna.com as well as on Express Scripts» most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.express-scripts.com.

In certain situations, such as a price war, market decline or market saturation, you must temporarily pursue a pricing strategy that will simply cover costs and allow you to continue operations.

According to ACN, the cost of living has spiralled upward — since the war's outbreak the price of wheat flour has increased by 300 percent and rice by 650 percent.

But domestic - focused processors are under intense pressure as margins are sandwiched by the spiralling cost of milk and depressed prices on retail shelves due to a supermarket war between Coles and Woolworths.

Changes to competition laws (milk wars discussion and recommendations relating to MMP (introduce effects test), predatory pricing (recommend Minister direct ACCC to investigate Coles for breach of s 46 relating to predatory pricing), unconscionable conduct (suggest it be defined), statutory duty of good faith, unfair contract terms (seeks «recognition of the competitive disadvantage faced by farmers» and extension of unfair contract terms protection to small business), collective bargaining (seeks relaxation of public interest test for boycott approvals in agriculture markets, increase «ability for peak bodies to commence and progress collective bargaining and boycott applications» on behalf of members - and further dairy specific recommendations, ACCC divestiture power (wants ACCC to have similar divestiture powers to Comp Commission in UK - «simpler process of divestiture», ACCC monitoring powers (wants Minister to direct ACCC to use price monitoring powers to «monitor prices, costs and profits relating to the supply of drinking milk») and mandatory code of conduct (wants mandatory code and «Ombudsman with teeth to ensure compliance»)-RRB-.

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».

We are always told about so much being in the war chest and then we hear that wenger is chasing players and misses them as he offers less than the asking price, well if there's say 70 million in the war chest then spend 70 million don't try and save 20 il at the cost of competing.

cloth diapers are much too high - maintenance and price wars have brought down the cost of disposables significantly, so the savings take a long time to see (plus, it could be longer than the life of the cloth diaper - the technology is too new for there to be documentation of a full lifecycle of use).

This war has resulted in vastly increased policing and customs costs over the past 30 years, easily mimicked by the criminal groups supplying the demand because the price demanded is willingly paid by the consumer.

While the financial cost of the war was in excess of $ 1.7 trillion dollars, the cost in human misery knows no price.

Sara Terry, the Founder and Director of the Aftermath Project, gives an introduction to some of the long - term work funded by the project, which is dedicated to educating the public about the true cost of war and the real price of peace.

Risks and uncertainties include without limitation the effect of competitive and economic factors, and the Company's reaction to those factors, on consumer and business buying decisions with respect to the Company's products; continued competitive pressures in the marketplace; the ability of the Company to deliver to the marketplace and stimulate customer demand for new programs, products, and technological innovations on a timely basis; the effect that product introductions and transitions, changes in product pricing or mix, and / or increases in component costs could have on the Company's gross margin; the inventory risk associated with the Company's need to order or commit to order product components in advance of customer orders; the continued availability on acceptable terms, or at all, of certain components and services essential to the Company's business currently obtained by the Company from sole or limited sources; the effect that the Company's dependency on manufacturing and logistics services provided by third parties may have on the quality, quantity or cost of products manufactured or services rendered; risks associated with the Company's international operations; the Company's reliance on third - party intellectual property and digital content; the potential impact of a finding that the Company has infringed on the intellectual property rights of others; the Company's dependency on the performance of distributors, carriers and other resellers of the Company's products; the effect that product and service quality problems could have on the Company's sales and operating profits; the continued service and availability of key executives and employees; war, terrorism, public health issues, natural disasters, and other circumstances that could disrupt supply, delivery, or demand of products; and unfavorable results of other legal proceedings.

Batten down the hatches, all hands on deck, there is an e-reader price war beginning and we could see e-readers being lowered in cost to a mere $ 99.00 by next year.

Besides, price wars are often wielded without considering the cost; some writers may authorize repeatedly, resulting in ambiguous copyrights; and in terms of management, its often direct dialogue between content and channel in China's digital publishing, missing such links as production, marketing, and data digging in between.

Today Amazon issued a major retaliation in the price war which Barnes & Noble started over e-Reader units just over a month ago — it announced two new and lower cost Kindle units that would begin shipping in late August and primed for the upcoming holiday season.

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.

Until a few years ago, there may have been a compelling cost advantage to using U.S. - listed ETFs over higher - fee Canadian equivalent ETFs but that MER differential has all but disappeared since the ETF price war hit Canadian shores early in 2014.

That cost disadvantage has lately looked slightly more daunting, as major index - fund providers engage in a price - cutting war to promote their flagship funds that track broad market indexes.

The author discussed the recent price wars among brokerage firms, noting that Interactive Brokers provides the best price improvement on trades in the industry and is the leader in low cost margin loans.

In the midst of price wars among competitors, the company is particularly proud of remaining one of the lowest cost brokers.

As the slim to non-existent differences in the prices of the three funds above suggests, focus on ETF costs has intensified dramatically in the past few years, leading many journalists and analysts to characterize all the jockeying for bragging rights to the cheapest funds as a «fee war» of sorts.

Investors clearly understand that higher fees can have a negative impact on their net return, as is evident in the price war in mutual fund fees, but a few basis - points difference in visible fees is far less meaningful in performance impact than the often - large hidden costs.14 For example, switching from a low - turnover strategy to a sloppily constructed strategy that spends scores of basis points in incremental trading costs can cost the investor dearly in performance.15 The same holds true for the buyers of opaque high - fee products (hedge funds and illiquid private investments), for which substantial costs may be hidden from sight.

As if Americans weren't already envious enough of Europe's wide selection of low cost airlines that charge less than the price of what most airlines in America tack on to check a second bag, they've now gone ahead and instituted a price war, driving fares even lower.

In response to extreme backlash by fans over the cost of heroes in Star Wars Battlefront II, EA has quickly made adjustments to the pricing structure.

Taking the cost of the two figures out of the price, does mean the actual game piece is only around $ 5 and I certainly feel this is worth much more than that, as the two figures Anakin and Ahsoka are fantastic figures plus they can be used within the other Star Wars play sets, expansion games and in the Toy Box, plus they are forward compatible with future versions of the game.

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Of course, whether the Prius pays for itself in the current market uncorrected for externalities is a different question than whether it would pay for itself once you accounted for the price of gas if it included all the environmental costs and much of the cost of the Iraq War (which, even if not directly about oil, is really pretty much about oil in the sense that it is what makes that whole region of important strategic interest to us).

But despite the $ 23,000 price tag for a pair of earrings or $ 35,000 for the cufflinks, we would do even better to remember the even higher cost of war.

Admittedly at the moment they include a lot of cost due to political uncertainty and war, but that should pass eventually, especially as the higher prices encourage more investment and exploration.

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Gas prices fluctuate wildly for reasons that have nothing to do with costs or taxes — geopolitics, cartel strategy, wars, etc..

It seems to have been wealthy Saudis... Factor in the costs of the war in Iraq and massive military expenditures to protect oil supplies and windmills look cheap at twice the price.

Prospecting, mining, storing, transporting, refining, burning, cleaning up the mess from, fighting wars over, wild price fluctuations, huge military costs for protection, blowing the tops off thousands of mountains or billion gallon coal fly ash sludge spills, or oil spills or nuclear accidents or radioactive waste storage problems, or running out of fuel resources.

We went to war, with the attendant cost of $ 600 billion dollar price tag (low) and the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people, on the «1 % per cent doctrine».

In the world according to Ed I would say no, overall prices have hit bottom and you will no longer seen the all out wars of the past 5 - 10 years where companies are scrambling and fighting to be the lowest cost term insurance on the market, if only for that day.

Coming to the pricing, the OnePlus 5T Star Wars Limited Edition smartphone costs Rs. 38,999 and will go on sale exclusively through Amazon India starting midnight.

And given that the new Rs 25,000 (approximate) price tag is expected to stick, we think OnePlus just lost the low - cost flagship war already.

Prepare them if your area is facing limited inventories (translation: you may not get everything on your wish list); high competition (translation: be ready to act fast and possibly face bidding wars for properties); and rising prices (translation: get your finances in order before you shop and understand that mortgage rates are expected to keep rising, which could add to your borrowing costs if you delay buying).