Sentences with phrase «lost pricing power»

Consequently, firms have lost pricing power and face a battle for market share.

Globalization of the world economy became much more intense in the 1990s, and American companies lost pricing power.

Then again, NetMarketShare.com finds that Google boasts close to 81 % of all search market share globally on desktops, so it's not exactly as if the company is set to lose its pricing power anytime soon.

The conventional wisdom says there's a finite pool of housing demand, and if more of it goes toward home purchase, then apartment owners will be left with a bunch of vacant units — or they'll lose pricing power.

Not exact matches

If you've got the power to raise prices without losing business to a competitor, you've got a very good business.

As readers of PAR's holiday card may have noted, I now view cash the way Buffett's biographer believes Buffett views it: Cash is an option on thousands of companies and each option has no strike price, no expiration date, and no premium cost other than the lost purchasing power due to inflation.

Some investors believe cable providers have enough pricing power to make up any lost revenue and margins should the government pursue the change.

Consumers were becoming more frugal and health - conscious, the power of the major supermarkets was growing and even Coke, once the world's most valuable brand, was losing its pulling power and pricing power.

If food and gas prices were included in the CPI, the rate of inflation would be closer to 10 percent, and, at that rate, the net purchasing power of earnings in ten years would be less than the initial investment, meaning you would have lost money.

«Not only would they lose the tax base, power prices would indeed go up if these units shut down,» Pacher said.

Cuomo said losing nuclear energy could drive up the price of other sources of power such as natural gas.

As state officials seek a way to keep the struggling Fitzpatrick Nuclear Power Plant open, a new study finds that losing them could lead to higher electricity prices.

«Not only would they lose the tax base, power prices would indeed go up if these units shut down,» Pacher said in March.

FitzPatrick, which has 600 workers, has been losing money because of low wholesale power prices based on cheap and plentiful natural gas.

Utility companies warn that the lost revenue from solar - powered costumers will necessitate price increases for people without solar panels, because the electric grid and other critical infrastructure must still be maintained.

So it is no surprise to see Chinese coal - fired power plants frustrated, and the nation is losing its opportunity to leverage adoption of clean energy technologies with higher electricity prices.

Costs at public schools are managed in part because of the power of numbers; when you shrink the population, especially in an uneven fashion, you lose the power to negotiate for lower prices.

«On the 500 that Chrysler will begin selling in the U.S. next year, we will lose over $ 10,000 per unit despite the retail price being three times higher [than the gasoline - powered version].»

On the other hand, if you want to save about $ 1,700 over the LE, you'll be able to get a lower - priced L trim starting in fall 2017, although you'll lose the LE's alloy wheels, power driver's seat, 60 / 40 - split folding rear seatback, and the ability to order the optional Convenience Package that we like.

The i Touring trim drops the price to just $ 20, 745, but you lose the nav system, Bose audio, dual zone climate control and a six - way power driver's seat.

It lost a lot of weight, a lot of power, and was priced much lower.

While certain features could be standard across the model range like the EPAS power steering, the car will lose out on a lot of goodies to keep the base price competitive in the segment.

Amazon (AMZN) used to set the prices people paid for ebooks, but, thanks to an illegal price fixing conspiracy, they lost most of that power to publishers.

As a buffer, the loonie loses buying power as commodity prices continue to drop and the U.S. economy gathers steam.

According to the Wall Street Journal, diamonds have increased in price over the last three decades but have lost half of their purchasing power due to inflation.

They lose power in markets with little or no price change.

That sort of price drop will cause enough of an increase in lost spending power to put us in the Second Great Depression.

If the stock pays no dividend, and does not change price over 40 years, you still have an asset worth $ 100 and have lost no money (in Nominal terms - you lose buying power due to inflation, but that's a different point).

If that's so, then millions of investors lose trillions of dollars in buying power when stock prices crash and it never comes back (because it never existed in a real sense in the first place).

If you hold any of these securities for a long time horizon, you probably will not lose money and they all compound earnings north of ~ 20 % or higher with sound capital allocation, moat characteristics, pricing power, etc..

But when prices go up at a rate higher than the rate on your savings account, you lose purchasing power.

If you can't earn a return higher than prices are rising, the purchasing power of your investment is negative, and as such, you've technically lost money.

If their portfolios bring home an inadequate yield, they risk losing purchasing power as consumer prices increase at a faster rate than their incomes.

They lost the power advantage, yet MS have allowed them to keep their current price and still be cheaper!

Investigating the development of the Mega Man series alongside the rise of video game emulation, the YouTube retrogaming scene, and the soaring price of NES carts, novelist Salvatore Pane takes a close and compelling look at the lost power - ups of our youth that we collect in our attempts to become complete again.

But if natural gas continues growing at the pace it has, the price will keep falling and coal power will lose even more market share and clout in Washington.

With Union Super funds heavily exposed to wind farm investments — if the REC price plummets, they'll lose $ billions; and the promised $ 50 billion subsidy bonanza will evaporate and deny them the opportunity of reaping massive returns at power consumer expense.

I'd rather tax consumption and pollution sources than tax business and productive activity (hence, eliminate corporate and income taxes, but tax brown power to make up for lost revenue and thus make green more price - competitive).

Power producers across the board lost tens of millions of dollars in revenue and suffered hits to their stock prices.

President Obama's Clean Power Plan alone could have imposed $ 1 trillion in lost output, 125,000 lost jobs, and double - digit increases in electricity prices, the Wall Street Journal noted.

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The Electric Power Supply Association (EPSA) and members NRG Energy, Eastern Generation, Dynegy, and Calpine said they would lose millions of dollars because subsidized nuclear plants would suppress capacity and energy prices.

a 10 % to 16 % increase in wholesale power prices which would cause further economic impacts, including 896 job losses and $ 45 million in lost economic activity

If the anti-coal zealots are allowed to prevail politically, electric rates will skyrocket for most Americans and many jobs will be lost in energy - intensive industries as a result of higher power prices.»

I recently saw you on TV arguing that power companies in Germany have lost half their market - cap due to solar pushing down prices.

«If existing coal plants in the U.S. that only need to recoup operating costs are losing money and closing, then it is difficult to imagine how any new coal plant, no matter how efficient or cheap, can be built and recover investment costs on top of operating costs — at least in the U.S. — as long as gas prices remain low,» said Wade Schauer, director of Americas Power & Renewables Research at Wood Mackenzie.

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The plants — R.E. Ginna in Ontario, Nine Mile Point in Scriba and FitzPatrick in Scriba, both near Oswego — have lost millions of dollars in recent years due to power prices that are below the plants» operating costs.

hey sony is just junk, unlike sony ericsson, well moto just another crap, so do nt comp crape to crap, yet xiaomi, one plus, google android one flagship are better for its price, huawei honor holly and honor is super phones, and lenevo 6000 series is power packed, so if sony wants to stay in avg they shud less price between 5k to 6k, come one boss, apple itself lost its market after 4 / 4s, may be 5, so if a brand want to survive between these market whales they need to price it super competitive, ahead of these chinese our own Indian brands, else eat dust

That power and flexibility comes with a price tag to match, and you lose the plug - and - play ease of a dedicated console.