Sentences with phrase «of keeping prices low»

Look at some of the Conjr's other specs, though, and you'll see where the phone makes some compromises in the name of keeping prices low.

There are many Portland renters insurance providers who only sell policies online, owing to the ease of keeping prices low by cutting back on labor costs.

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And of course leaving people alone much of the time means spending less money on advertising, which means we can keep our prices lower.

Unlike Grantham, Shilling believes that low global growth will continue to keep pressure on the price of oil, especially when Saudi Arabia, the world's most influential producer, can continue to pump up oil for less than $ 10 a barrel.

It's a bit of a mixed area with subsided low - income properties and new development, which could keep prices down for sometime.

We have a different view on inflation, which we see below 2 percent even in 2018,» analysts at Bank of America Merrill Lynch said in a note on Wednesday, explaining that oil prices will keep headline inflation low.

Keep in mind: If you are pre-approved for the loan before you head to the dealership, you can concentrate on haggling for the lowest price for the car and highest amount for your trade - in without the added pressure of negotiating the interest rate and other details of your loan.

Still, one of biggest changes this year will certainly be a bigger emphasis on deals, keeping customers aware of low prices at a time when shopper traffic has been falling at Target.

The company is now trying a strategy of deliberately keeping inventory low and selling products at full price in order to foster an air of exclusivity, thereby encouraging consumers to spend for fear the desired items will sell out.

There's every reason to remain doubtful about the Bank of Canada's ability to keep interest rates low in the face of rising home prices.

By including consumers in the process of putting the products together and keeping prices low, Ikea has managed to keep shoppers coming back.

The U.K. had been expected to follow close behind the Federal Reserve in raising interest rates for the first time in nearly a decade, but with lower commodity prices and weak wage growth still keeping a lid on inflation, economists now think that the U.K. may not raise rates till 2017 — even though new data out Wednesday showed the employment rate hit a 45 - year high of 74 % in the three months to November.

The company's basic idea of selling goods at a low price with great service has remained constant for two decades but it keeps investing in new technology and improving operations to stay ahead of rivals.

All three of these corporations have embraced the art of reinvention as a means to combat increasing competition, low crude prices, or to keep up with the latest developments in technology.

A big part of the reason it can keep prices so low is that it primarily sells private - label products.

Meanwhile, to keep prices down, Glickman was constantly hitting up every international - phone - service provider he could get a hold of to try to lower what he paid for termination, which accounted for 70 % of Justice's costs.

Keep prices low: One of Klein's core principles is to make it easier and more affordable for people to eat healthy.

Benefits — Each family / real estate investor keeps average $ 600 / mo for 2 yrs, real estate in all major metropolitans will have a traded price, increase buying power of low income high credit citizens, stimulate real estate investment by making it easier for investors to cash flow a rental property, reduce home inventory, the increase home values and liquidity provides incentive to put the $ X trillion in capital currently on the sidelines back to work and mortgage prepayments will increase capital availability.

Experts and analysts have largely dismissed antitrust threats for the world's largest online retailer because the company doesn't have large market concentration in any one product category and has a track record of helping keep prices low for shoppers.

Again, it's this ingenuity that's kept oil prices relatively low, which in turn has helped strengthen GDPs in oil - importing emerging markets and squeeze the revenue of exporters such as Russia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and others.

To keep prices low and hence national economies competitive, governments were to undertake society's largest spending programs: basic infrastructure such as transportation, power production, communications — all of which happen to be natural monopolies as well.

As long as he doesn't see any consumer price inflation that you're not going to have in a world where people are still coming out of the rice patties to take a job at $ 0.70 an hour, then he's going to keep the interest rates artificially low, totally medicated and rigged, and that will encourage speculators to just keep going, and going, and going until the next bubble.

By focusing on our mandate to keep inflation low, stable and predictable, the Bank has built up credibility, and Canadians have well - anchored inflation expectations, even in the face of large price swings.

Ideally, we would like (to pick up Alan Greenspan's definition of practical price stability) to see inflation kept low enough so as not to bias behaviour in these costly ways.

Bill Gurley compares Kalanick to Jeff Bezos, and it seems likely that Uber will follow a path similar to Amazon, relentlessly pushing to keep prices low while expanding — at the cost of short - term profits.

The optimist's take on this trend is that robots help Amazon keep prices low, which means people buy more stuff, which means the company needs more people to man its warehouses even though it needs fewer human hours of labor per package.

What this means in practice is that we have kept maturities of our investments very short, particularly for low - risk issuers such as governments and agencies, while we seek out opportunities to increase portfolio yield with what we think is well - priced corporate debt.

Using quarterly hedge fund SEC Form 13F filings and short interest data for a broad sample of U.S. stocks (excluding small and low - priced stocks), along with data required to compute stock return predictors and risk factors for these stocks, during 1990 through 2012, they find that: Keep Reading

Let's take a look at some of the key fundamentals that have kept gold prices on a tight leash during the last few years against the backdrop of a sharp correction in the equities markets, rising inflation, geopolitical unrest and the likely end of an era of low interest rates.

Cocoa has been the strongest commodity in 2018 as we rallied about 25 % from the low as prices may have gotten ahead of themselves, but I will keep a close eye on this market.

The elitists have no problems whatsoever with stratospheric stock and bond prices; 5,000 year low interest rates; $ 450 million Da Vinci's; $ 250 million private homes; $ 50,000,000 annual salaries for circus masters, whose role in keeping the masses distracted and dumb is vital; $ 1.9 million Aston Martins; $ 100,000 Air Jordan sneakers, or any of the other prices that have now gone into outer space.

It remains to be seen if oil prices will remain low for a long period of time, but the Federal Reserve's actions, which have kept lending rates near record lows since 2009, have allowed airlines like Alaska access to capital at a reasonably cheap cost.

Looking at the last 30 - odd years, it's the «demographic sweet spot» of labor oversupply that has kept wages low and allowed competitive pricing to drive down inflation.

Declining revenues kept the share price low early this year, but that is in part due to GT's strategy of focusing more on its high value added (HVA) tires, which have higher margins.

As a result, I just keep investing while building up my cash reserves to take advantage of lower prices at some point.

It is certainly reasonable to believe that this source of UST selling will continue to keep USTS rallies «limp,» and still in front of a very pro-growth / reflationary Trump policy mix to come: lower corporate and individual taxes, industry deregulation, trade policy (tariffs will drive up domestic prices as cheaper international goods competition is removed) and a fiscal policy shift away from monetary policy will all conspire to take rates higher in the year + window ahead.

Treatment charges in spot markets, where there is scant surplus material, hit a record - low of $ 10 / t last month, with one trader saying that suggests zinc prices may keep climbing after rallying 60 % in 2016 and 29 % last year.

Also, in general, keep in mind that it often makes sense to sell options in periods of high volatility, when option prices are elevated, and buy options in periods of low volatility, when options are cheaper.

Continuing Low Rates Risks Bigger Asset «Bubble» US Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard, 54 anni, warns that keeping interest rates near Zero risks inflating asset - price bubbles, saying officials should raise borrowing costs this year as the economy improves.

Litecoin price boomed in late 2017 - but the first quarter of 2018 was a nightmare for the investors as prices kept sinking to new lows.

As Sharga put it, «Southern California and Northeast markets continue to cool due to soaring prices and low inventory, which keeps homeownership out of reach for many first - time buyers.»

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The prices are usually lower than local shops and the convenience of 24/7 ordering and account management — such as online trading, record keeping, and account statements with valuations — can't be beat.

By now, it should be obvious that the Saudis and their Gulf allies are playing the long game when it comes to the current oil situation, and that means keeping the taps flowing in the midst of a global glut no matter how low prices go.

High levels of negative equity kept one out of five homeowners frozen in place and unable to sell, driving down inventories, especially among lower priced homes.

They will have a maximum valuation based on their view of the future valuation and the perceived competitiveness for the deal, but will try to keep the price they pay closer to the lower part of the range.

Gas prices remained in a holding pattern over the past week but could drop 5 to 15 cents a gallon over the next six weeks as winter keeps demand low throughout most of the country, travel club AAA said.

There are a number of factors working together to keep rates low, including an administration still unable to bring an economic boost, low oil prices, geopolitical stress, and ultra-low inflation.

Nonetheless, vehicle sales keep failing to rise through their previous cyclical peaks, in spite of rising employment, record low financing costs and low oil prices (charts from CalculatedRisk)

So while low and negative interest rates across the globe has inspired flows into stocks, emerging market bonds and corporate credit in search of higher yields, keep in mind the high correlations of these assets to oil prices and the advantages of holding actual diversifiers in your portfolio to smooth the ride.