Sentences with phrase «much out of consumers»

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And even the Federal Reserve's modest rate hikes have had an outsized impact on the bottom line of Bank of America, which pockets the extra interest it collects on loans while paying out much less on consumers» deposits (making money on the so - called spread).

Abramowicz foresees another sort of ripple effect in the event of a market correction: As homeowners with those short - term private subprime mortgages struggle to figure out how to refinance in a much more constrained market, they may opt to default and cut back on consumer spending.

Just how much, if any, of this course - correcting for consumers (read: lower prices) comes out of employees» hides (read: lower compensation, less training, a more oppressive pace) remains to be seen.

While the announcement to automatically eliminate tracking cookies in the new browser was celebrated by privacy advocates, it has been slammed by the FTC and the online ad community since it goes against Microsoft's previous agreement to a default browser setting that would require consumers to opt - out of tracking (much like what's available on Google Chrome).

A growing number of businesses are opting out of providing traditional insurance for workers in favor of private exchanges, which allow consumers to search for health insurance in much the same way they'd search for a vacation package on Travelocity.com.

That's because the AHCA actually maintains Obamacare's «essential health benefit» provisions requiring insurers to cover services such as maternity and mental health care, as well as a cap on how much consumers can be made to pay out of pocket in any given year.

Running the printing press like never before has indeed produced a mountain of cash on bank balance sheets, but they aren't lending it out much to consumers and business.

Supply chain aficionados might want to geek out on how much water it takes to manufacture boxes, but most consumers will run from an avalanche of info.

As it turns out, though, many consumers didn't buy the 16 - month - old iPhone 4 because they were waiting for the much - hyped rollout of the new model.

With the explosion of social media and other interactive websites plus the vastness of the Internet itself and online users, much of the marketing power has shifted out of the marketer's hands and into the consumers.

This was the basis for insisting that the iPhone must have a low - price model: surely Apple would soon run out of new technology to justify the prices it charged for high - end iPhones, and consumers would start buying much cheaper Android phones instead!

Of course much of the global economic crisis a decade ago was due to the American government handing out subprime mortgages to consumers who couldn't afford to pay for the homes they were living iOf course much of the global economic crisis a decade ago was due to the American government handing out subprime mortgages to consumers who couldn't afford to pay for the homes they were living iof the global economic crisis a decade ago was due to the American government handing out subprime mortgages to consumers who couldn't afford to pay for the homes they were living in.

Supermarket cost war and Black Friday bargains motivate buyers to bring Xmas paying forward The ongoing grocery store cost war and on - line revenue drove the strongest British isles retail income progress in much more than a quarter of a century this thirty day period, as consumers rushed out to bag...

Conversely, if the individual behind the screen turns out to be a middle - income stock broker, I would not expect him or her to be averse to church - going, a liberal Democrat, an environmentally oriented consumer, or much of a pro-choicer.

Coles managing director Ian McLeod has singled out Coca - Cola Amatil as part of an attack on multinational suppliers, saying Australian consumers are still paying too much for groceries.

Supplier of acacia gum, Alland & Robert recently asked polling organisation Toluna to carry out a survey in the USA, UK, Japan and Germany to find out how much consumers know about acacia gum.

That's why consumer protection rules, certification marks, labels, trading standards and the like have to be moved to the EU level and also why some countries which decided to stay out of the EU like Norway or Iceland ultimately have to implement pretty much all the rules, one by one.

«Given that reality, only a bunch of out - of - touch millionaire special interests could somehow find a way to denigrate putting billions of dollars in much needed economic stimulus in the hands of consumers and workers,» Kwatra said.

Build before Memory Runs Out Although individual consumer actions can help, major changes in carbon output will likely require better electricity - generation technologies, retiring much of the coal - fired capacity and replacing it with the most cost - effective combination of modern reactors, renewables and even clean coal.

Spare a thought for consumers in Brazil, where obtaining a telephone from one of the companies administered by the state monopoly, Telebras, requires a wait of at least two years — or much longer in out - of - the - way areas.

It must be pointed out that even with the huge subsidies the Recovery Act and climate bill include for CCS, much of that additional development cost will be transferred to us, the consumers.

What I'd like to know is, taking all of these factors into account, how much extra we, the consumers, will have to pay for a kilowatt - hour of coal - fired electricity 5, 10, 20 and 30 years from now (a point in time which even WV's own Nick Rahall says will be when the most productive coal seams have been mined out) because our leaders today decided to facilitate an increase in the consumption of coal through the laughably mis - named «climate bill.»

He defends his choice to spend no more than $ 100 for family gifts on Christmas in saying, «If you believe that our consumer addiction represents our deepest problem — the force that keeps us from reaching out to others, from building a fair society, the force that drives so much of our environmental degradation — then Christmas is the nadir.

With an exploding wellness market, the consumer and patient has a plethora of opportunities to figure out their wellness journey, but this is where there can also be so much confusion.

While we don't know how much you'll have to shell out to make one of these yours, or if Cigarette even plans on offering this beast to consumers, but if you want to at least lay eyes on the electro - boat, head down to the Miami International Boat Show, which opens today.

Consumer Reports predicts reliability of the new A4 to be much better than average, and the federal government said the new model earned five out of five stars in frontal and side crash testing.

I get that the Indian consumer may not care as much as I do, and that Renault needs to stay competitive - but take a leaf out of Mahindra's playbook and offer dual airbags and ABS as at least optional on ALL variants - as it does on the Scorpio, and even the smaller cars like the TUV300 and KUV100.

Some early estimates that have come out of the price fixing allegations between Apple and five of the Big Six publishers state that consumers overpaid for their ebooks by as much as a total of $ 250 million; all fifty states and the US commonwealths and territories are named in the class action suit to recover some of that overspending.

But not any more as the company seems to have taken heed of consumer demands and has come out with a version of the S7 equipped with the much more responsive and multi touch capable capacitive touch screen.

According to a Reuters article from back in June, this is partly because it was too complicated to sort out the logistics for a larger operation similar to those that Amazon has in other countries such as its home market of the U.S., Europe, Japan and elsewhere, where the company also sells physical books, consumer electronics, household goods, and much more — often from a selection of third - party retailers as well as itself.

As regular IndieReader's know by now, by cutting out the middleman of publishers, indie authors work directly with online retailers to publish and distribute their books more quickly, more inexpensively to the consumer, and for a much larger share of the profits than a «trad» publisher offers.

If he had a Kindle he could read some of his books but graphic novels are pretty much out of the question until the color e-ink technology becomes a consumer reality, hopefully like Mr. Schwartz said at the end of this year.

Recent data out of ChangeWave Research indicates that the Kindle Fire is still idling at a much lower level of consumer interest than was the case in the fourth quarter of last year.

The Mercedes - Benz credit card doesn't seem like a card consumers can get much value out of for the long term.

We took these figures and applied them to the rewards offered by these cards, in order to see how much the average consumer can get out of using these cards.

Either she is attempting to purchase way to much home or her consumer debt is out of control.

The reason consumers stand to save so much: There are more small claims than big claims, so you can save big by agreeing to pay for less expensive car repairs out of your own pocket, Passmore says.

In an environment of subdued investment returns, Davis says consumer awareness will increase that the 2.5 per cent management expense ratio of the average Canadian mutual fund will «take a much bigger bite out of returns and investors will be more apt to notice that.»

Most lenders will not simply let that go because they know they can try to mine as much money as possible out of consumers who are in dire financial straits.

Sorry I mean't to add one other thought, if the card holder is carrying a high balance and their interest rates increase like the banks have been raising in recent months, this could backfire on the banks themselves, I mean since the banks give a 45 notification of the increase and the consumer is already maxed out and can barely make the payments as it is, the increased interest rates because of how the congress requires at least all the monthly interest and some of the principle to be paid on the cards, done so that consumers could reduce the amount of time to illiminate their debts, this may spawn many card holders whoms payments will increase much like those adjustable rate mortgages that people walked away from to go wild with their remaining balances on the card and then default, the whole irony is that the consumer may very well use the card thats damaging them to pay for bankruptcy proceedings lol!

And while associations like Consumers» Union, publisher of Consumer Reports, have long spoken out against some of the industry's most questionable practices, nothing has changed much in at least ten years.

Many consumers who move forward with debt settlement have already begun to miss payments, have maxed out many of their credit lines, and have seen much of the damage already done.

We used those numbers to figure out exactly how much rewards consumers can expect out of each card both in the short - term and long - term.

It doesn't seem to bother consumers too much, however; two out of three people included in the 16 Handles survey said they'd be comfortable paying $ 6 per serving for their favorite flavors.

I think you need to point out that with a debt settlement program your chances of being sued are much higher, since there is a conscious decision not to pay ones creditors or agreements made with creditors, while consumer counseling program make agreements with creditors.

Okay Bweb first statement — «I think you need to point out that with a debt settlement program your chances of being sued are much higher, since there is a conscious decision not to pay ones creditors or agreements made with creditors, while consumer counseling program make agreements with creditors.»

The growth of software - based asset management firms that help individuals minimize fee expenses, such as FeeX, don't even bother projecting potential returns for actively managed funds, instead pointing out to consumers how much money they can save on fees by investing in low - cost index funds.

Much of my summer's been spent searching out more stocks that offer decent exposure to distressed consumers / companies / assets, particularly in Europe.

Concerned consumers are now reading pet food labels a lot more closely, and are finding out much of the food they use to nourish and treats they use to reward their furry friends are sourced from overseas and include cheap fillers, animal by - products, and artificial preservatives.

But while many credit a surge of consumer demand for the growth in the category, some point out that manufacturers should, in fact, take much of the credit for themselves — for the industry itself is largely responsible for the public's increased awareness of natural alternatives.