Sentences with phrase «less markets reduces»

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And since the cost of becoming a franchisor is often less than the cost of opening one more location (or entering one more market), your startup risk is greatly reduced.

When the market drops and some of your stocks are worth less than you originally paid, you can sell them and buy a similar (but not identical) fund, and this loss can be used to offset capital gains on other holdings — or even reduce your regular income taxes.

The facts are not right here, energy is cheap that means the cost of manufacturing and transporting of goods is low, food and consumers staples already more affordable, so what if a few American oil companies going out of business.the cost of producing oil in middle east is less than $ 10 / bl and we were paying more than $ 140 / bl for it, with that huge profit margin the big oil companies and oil producing nations became richer and the rest of us left behind, with the oil price this low the oil giants don't want to reduce the price at pump even a penny, because they are so greedy.worst case scenario is some CEOs bonuses might drop from $ 20 million to $ 15 millions I am sure they will survive.in terms of the stock market it always bounces back, after all it's just a casino like game.

If markets decline, those less - volatile asset classes should help reduce the potential for portfolio losses.

Financial frictions to geographic mobility can reduce this movement of individuals across labor markets leading to less - efficient outcomes for the economy.

Combined with reduced risk - taking in the financial system as a whole, this would then further reduce market - makers» willingness to build up large inventories of less liquid assets.

This has led banks to use far less of their own capital in global markets, which, in turn, has reduced secondary market liquidity for many securities and removed some of the more credit - worthy bank counterparties in these markets.

It steadily reduces your exposure to risky equities to reflect how you've ever less time left to recover from stock market falls.

Participants» choices are limited when bear markets occur, he argues: «You pretty much can't go back into the workforce (so) your only course of action is to reduce your standard of living, spend less.

Moreover, passive investments can be less liquid in volatile markets, and reduced central - bank stimulus could mean lower correlations.

Think about investing in systems that can reduce food waste — or look for alternate markets for your «less than perfect» crops.

The question is whether it is better to continue to disrupt life in a way that makes people less and less able to deal with their own problems and meet their own needs, or to begin the painful process of reducing dependence on world markets.

Market principles in themselves provide no basis for doing otherwise, and if one's competitors are able to pay less and so reduce the price to consumers, one is forced to adopt the policies that make that possible.

«It benefits them because they have less points of contact and a more consistent go - to market strategy, which reduces costs on their bottom line.

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Knowing consumers are seeking ways to reduce sugar and empty calories in their diet, Straus» organic chocolate milk contains 38 percent less total sugars than other organic chocolate milk brands in the market today.

This could have resulted in these businesses becoming less able to plan and less able to innovate in the market, with resulting reduced economic efficiency and consumer detriment,» ACCC Chairman Rod Sims said.

He could wait around, sure, but if Zack Greinke and David Price and Johnny Cueto all get less than expected, it's not going to help Zimmermann's market any, and avoiding a late - winter situation where the holes are filled and the options reduced, akin to James Shields» a year ago, is preferable for any free agent.

I recognize that NOCSAE's decision may have some technical merit; and that it may be to some degree be necessary to protect the integrity of its helmet standard by weeding out what one football helmet representative characterized in an email to me as «snake oil salesmen» marketing supplemental padding products that, despite their overblown claims, likely do little if anything to reduce, much less prevent, concussions, and may, at least in theory, compromise the ability of football helmets to protect players as the manufacturers intended.

Checks by Citi Business News at some major Oil Marketing Companies showed that petroleum prices dropped by less than GHc1 at the pumps after Parliament passed the Special Petroleum Tax Amendment Bill to reduce that much - criticized tax from 15 percent to 13 percent.

For example, it has been shown that if online daters actually do pick a partner, the larger the pool from which one chooses said partner, the more likely one is to experience dissatisfaction with their choice after having made it - a sort of «buyer's remorse» in relationships.4 Not to mention, a lot of people feel as if dating online is less about finding a partner and more about shopping for the right combination of traits, reducing some of the humanity in trying to meet people and turning online dating services into a love market.5

If you can reduce that cost to less than $ 1.00 per mile, it opens up the market to 75 % of VMT, representing 300 times greater revenues than today.

The rear multilink independent suspension, based on that used in the Japanese - market Nissan Skyline, separates the rear shocks and springs for reduced friction and the shocks are in line with the centers of the rear wheels, providing better damping and less harshness.

A popular approach for independent authors is to use Amazon KDP without assistance or distributors in the way, and then employ an ebook distributor for the rest of the ebook market to reduce administration time, since sales outside of Amazon are usually less than 10 to 15 percent of total ebook sales.

If Apple follow form (and this is speculation on my part) the iPad2 will be the same price as existing units (with better specs and features) and the existing line of iPads will be at new reduced price points, eating up the lower end of the market and increasing the iOS installed base to a point where Motorola and Android become less than interesting.

The offer Amazon makes would be a decent one if Amazon still controlled 80 - 90 % of the ebook market but when you know that Amazon controls less than 60 % in some markets and even in the US, its dominance is not what it used to be, allowing the company exclusivity sounds like a recipe for smaller sales and reduced exposure.

Though the latter two products aren't as well implemented, they cost less than even the reduced - price Kindle 2; and their very existence as low - end alternatives challenges Amazon's stranglehold on the e-book market.

It used to be that where your book didn't sell 20 or 30 thousand copies in the first three months, your publisher would either drop you or reduce your advances, or be less invested in marketing your next book.

Following the bear markets of 2000 - 02 and 2007 - 09, technology and finance were reduced to well less than half of their peak weight in the S&P 500.

Choosing to apply CGT relief might sometimes result in a capital loss arising on the deemed sale of a CGT asset, as the asset's market value at that time may be less than its reduced cost base.

This implied that most fund managers may not have reduced their cash positions or tilted their portfolios to less defensive stocks when the market recovered from market downturns.

Countercyclical Indexing is a low fee and tax efficient form of indexing which uses systematically constructed cyclical market models that help hedge an investor from permanent loss risk as stocks become more riskier the market cycle while reducing hedges as stocks become less risky.

Why stay invested at all times when you can reduce your risk and earn higher returns by market timing with technical analysis, or even with a less fussy technique like «sell in May and go away.»

«A few products in the market have done that and been able to reduce the pain by having less downside,» he says.

As long as some portion of an investor's portfolio is in foreign stocks, evidence suggests that those stocks should not be currency - hedged for three reasons: (1) Currency unhedged portfolios are not much more volatile than currency - hedged ones (and less volatile for US markets) and (2) Currency hedging appears to add about 1 % extra cost and (3) Some currency unhedged positions reduce overall portfolio volatility.

One simple way to reduce the risk of a market decline is to reduce your equity exposure in favor of less risky investments.

For example, diversifying a portfolio between stocks and bonds tends to reduce risk, because bonds are less volatile than stocks and may continue to perform well when the stock market takes a hit.

In keeping with Montier's absolute value philosophy, we investigated several dynamic allocation strategies based on reducing or eliminating exposure to markets as they get more or less expensive, using the real earnings yield as our yardstick.

At some point after 10 - 15 of investing in stocks only, I do plan to transfer a percentage of the portfolio to less risky assets of fixed income to reduce the risk of losing money due to stock market fluctuations when approaching her start date.

This frequent turnover of fund investors AND the regular distribution of capital gains from the funds themselves leads to regular capital gain taxes, leaving less after - tax money to be reinvested in a new actively managed fund, further reducing the active investor's chances at «beating the market.»

Also everything I read so far about CC ETF's say that they are a lot less volatile in bear markets (+ according to my stats, they return more in bull markets), and CC strategies reduce risk, etc. etc. so I have a hard time understanding why it wouldn't be a good way to invest.

Reallocating is admitting that you do not know what the market is going to do and you are willing to reduce potential future gains in return for less volatility.

Lightweighted packaging configurations are often marketed to consumers as being more affordable, more convenient and making less of an environmental impact by taking up less volume, and companies cite the practice as reducing a company's carbon footprint, as well as costs, throughout the supply chain.

Thanks to increasing pressure to reduce carbon emissions and cut the use of foreign oil, biofuels - renewable, home - grown and marketed as less damaging than fossil fuels - have used corporate and political clout to win billions in subsidies from the US taxpayer.

To top that off, not only would you be reducing emissions from transport, but you would also be creating a new market for farmers and making cars less dependent on foreign oil imports (enhancing national energy security).

All the current solar and wind power in the market today have reduced U.S. CO2 emissions by 30 to 35 million metric tons per year, which is less than one - 10th of 1 % of the current worldwide total.

Over time, reduce the total allocation, thus signaling to all that there will be less available in future, which would tend to increase the price in the market.

Developing and developed nations alike will move toward new forms of advanced energy technologies that reduce dependence on foreign nations, insulate their economies from volatile energy markets, and are cleaner and thus less costly from a public health perspective.

The country expects to use 10 % less electricity within a decade; all power stations are to be modernised; there's # 30bn for more renewables; railways will be further subsidised to lure people out of their cars and away from aeroplanes; plans for more wind turbines, photovoltaic electricity and biofuels will all be fast - forwarded; there is # 1,500 m to reduce CO2 in existing buildings; and the solar market is growing by 40 % a year.