Sentences with phrase «of a price war between»

Aldi's Australian chief executive Tom Daunt has described the discount supermarket chain as being the piggy in the middle of a price war between the two Search the world's information, including webpages, images, videos and more.

2018-04-08 17:32 Aldi's Australian chief executive Tom Daunt has described the discount supermarket chain as being the piggy in the middle of a price war between the two Search the world's information, including webpages, images, videos and more.

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In light of the tug - of - war in the crude oil space, where prices have traded between the low $ 40s and low $ 50s since March, Cramer used the charts to try to foresee the commodity's future.

The Yom Kippur War between Israel and Egypt / Syria in the fall of 1973 hastened the 1970s oil crisis when OPEC declared an embargo that raised the posted price of oil from $ 3.00 a barrel to approximately $ 12 by spring of 1974.

NEW YORK Oil prices fell about 2 percent on Friday after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened new tariffs on China, reigniting fears of a trade war between the world's two largest economies that could hurt global growth.

The DJIA is still within 10 % of the highs that it hit earlier this year, so it is safe to speculate that a full on trade war between the world's two largest economies probably isn't being priced in at the moment.

Nehru's suspicion of businessmen shaped as much by the European distrust of capitalism between the wars as by India's forced de industrialization by the British East India Company committed him to state control of prices, wages, and production, and to strict limits on foreign investment and trade.

Metcash has enjoyed a number of good years while Coles was struggling, but now it is fighting to compete as the price war between Coles and Woolworths plays out.

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.

Last July Jane became so outraged at the consequences to her industry of the $ 1 a litre milk price war between the supermarkets, that she fired off an angry post to the Facebook page of Coles.

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».

It added «It is very pathetic that the governor of Imo State Chief Rochas Okorocha will be belittled himself to this level by going uncontrollably from house to house and one market to another calling people to come out and open their shops on that fateful day Biafrans were celebrating and honouring those who paid the ultimate price during the great war in the history against the people of Biafra between 1967 and 1970.

There are striking parallels between Buhari's first stint in power as military dictator and his current democratic presidency - oil prices have crashed; appointments have favoured the North; important political allies have been displaced; governance is focused almost exclusively on a war against corruption; concerns over rule of law and human rights are re-surfacing; and economic policy is floundering!

This unspoken understanding between competitors» is actually contradictory to current perceptions of players within financial and other competitive markets where price wars and retaliation are seen as common.

The rivalry has sparked a price war between Amazon, Apple and a number of book publishers.

Amazon's Odd Hardback Pricing War: Shelf Awareness posted the news that Amazon was undercutting their hardback book prices between 50 % to 65 % of bestseller titles (JK Rowling's Gailbraith - published book isn't as deeply discounted).

For instance in France there is a law saying that book prices have to be decided by the publisher and not the seller, so that kind of war between publisher and seller can't happen.

Way to go Big Five I want to quote from the conclusion of the article «For authors who want control over their pricing, so they can avoid become casualties in wars between retailers and publishers, the choice of publication method is clear.

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.

On Monday, the site reported, «Amazon.com quietly began discounting many bestselling hardcover titles between 50 % and 65 %, levels we've never seen in the history of Amazon or in the bricks - and - mortar price wars of the past.»

To add - Personally, I'm hoping that this leads to a huge price war between Google Books and Amazon, selling e-books at a loss and giving us consumers a brief period where we can get tons of them for cheap.

Thanks to the price wars between all of the major ereader brands, we are in the era of the no frills ereader.

Moving on... in light of the nascent price war between Amazon and Barnes & Noble, Borders would like you to know that its Kobo e-reader now includes a $ 20 gift card and double Borders Bucks for whenever you drop cash in the store.

To unravel the link between a number of strange and violent events, ex — MI6 agent Jack Price enlists the help of young London detective Patrick West — drawing him into a eye - opening conspiracy stretching back to the Second World War.

Reading between the lines a bit, it seems as though publishers now consider libraries to be the competition and have fired the opening shot in a kind of price war.

In a decision that could start an e-book price war in the publishing industry, a federal judge on Thursday approved a settlement between the Justice Department and three major publishers in a civil antitrust case that accused the companies of collusion in the pricing of digital books.

E-Book prices are the topic of many other wars going on right now between publishers, book sellers, authors, readers.

There are, however, a pair of feuds that DIY investors and Canadian discount brokerages may want to keep on their radars, namely the commission price war between US online brokerages and the efforts to rescind the Department of Labor's... Read More»

Thirty years ago, no one could have foreseen the huge expansion of the Vietnam War, wage and price controls, two oil shocks, the resignation of a president, the dissolution of the Soviet Union, a one - day drop in the Dow of 508 points, or treasury bill yields fluctuating between 2.8 % and 17.4 %.

Rogers — who made his fortune largely by investing in commodities — tells the Economic Times that the specter of war between the two Koreas will drive up the price of commodities, making them an attractive investment.

As a means of ending the price war, a merger was proposed between the two companies.

Though it ended the price war between the two competing companies, this merger was not enough to stave off the encroachments of a third company: Del Caribe Fisheries Ltd., owned by American Ed Devorak.

Image Courtesy of Crave Online What Midway Games was hoping would start a high - price bidding war between companies turned out to be their only shot at purchase when Warner Brothers Interactive Entertainment's late - May bid of $ 33 Million turned out to be the studio's only offer.

The vehicle's fate looks as though it will be determined by a tug of war between the financial implosion and plummeting gas prices.

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Right now we are seeing a price war between Sunnis and Shiites, a side scenario in a broader war sparked by the USA invasion of Iraq and obama's meddling in Syria.

A greater incidence of service tax is likely to trigger price wars between insurers because buyers would now become even more price conscience.

The price of the coin has traded in the $ 6500 to $ 7500 range since the start of this month, due to the tug of war between bulls and bears.

Not only has Wal - Mart grabbed a big share of the food buck, but the discount giant's aggressive development strategy also has sparked a price war between traditional supermarkets.

The bidding war between Simon Property Group and Brookfield Asset Management over the fate of General Growth Properties appears to have reached a stalemate, as the two firms are now offering similarly priced and structured reorganization plans for...

Supply of inventory: Inventory shortages can often spark bidding wars between buyers where investors or buyers with more income can price out first - time buyers.

Due to the strength of the property, we were able to create a bidding war between several prospective buyers, resulting in an attractive price for a single student housing property.»