Sentences with phrase «over pricing practices»

Its decision not to investigate claims Fonterra was abusing its dominant position to keep prices artificially high, followed a similar «no worries» verdict delivered recently by the Australian Consumer and Competition over pricing practices of mega-retailer Coles.

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The practice means that each new year's grants tend to end up being potentially more valuable than the previous year's, just because stock prices tend to drift higher over time.

Lately pharma execs have been taking yet another volley of criticism over drug - pricing practices from Hillary Clinton and Marco Rubio — and plenty of others — without offering much in the way of a defense.

In attacking Berkshire, Ackman was striking back after Buffett's business partner Charlie Munger last year called Valeant «deeply immoral» for its practice of raising drug prices, sparking a sort of long - distance feud over whose favorite stock was better.

Laval, Quebec - based Valeant has been trying to rebuild its business and regain investor confidence after the company came under investigations over its accounting and pricing practices.

For that reason, Northrop shares edged up only 0.3 % in early trading Monday, suggesting that, while the deal made lots of sense over the long term, the price is pretty full and the buyer has less practice than some at integrating new businesses, especially big ones.

I fear that in markets like this one, the incentive is to adopt unsustainable practices that will boost productivity over the short term to «cash in on» high market prices.

It's season 2016/2017 The gunners are going to struggle scoring Just over a week to the first game and Wenger is snoring Transfer prices make him see red A misplaced shot from Giroud at target practice left him with a bump on his head He couldn't sign anyone on transfer deadline day morning

Yet the practice is widespread, in part because oil prices have been much higher in recent years and because it is hard to find new multimillion barrel reservoirs these days, especially in the picked over U.S. Denbury, based in Plano, Texas, controls more than 1,000 miles of CO2 pipelines and has published reserves of 17 trillion cubic feet of the greenhouse gas, used to pump more than 70,000 barrels of oil a day.

At the height of his career, the practice included several dentists on the first floor and a laboratory on the second floor where Mr. Howdy, a chemist of German origin, performed analyses for fat - soluble activators in hundreds of samples of butter and other foods sent to Dr. Price from all over the world.

Over her years of beauty blogging (and scoring A + buys at an affordable price), Mendoza has discovered the products and practices that work best for her skin, and she's sharing all of that (and more!)

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By sticking to this loss - making practice, to create a perception amongst eBook buyers that they should not have to pay more than $ 9.99 for an eBook, and to thereby, over time, force publishers to drop their retail prices for eBooks.

At this point Ingram clearly seems like the winner in this category, but there are a few nuances to keep in mind: first off, having control over your global pricing sounds cool, but in practice you need to sell a LOT of books globally for it to pay off.

But when I read the discussion that took place over the weekend at Paidcontent.org between Mathew Ingram and Laura Owen that is described as a «smack - down,» I scratch my head and wonder if anyone can make something more than an emotional and nostalgic argument to defend a practice (the likely illegal price - fixing scheme called «agency pricing «-RRB- that is just such a «subsidy» model.

While some retailers may have reasonable pricing restrictions, such as not allowing you to price below $ 0.99, the standard practice is to give the author complete control over pricing.

While some services may have reasonable pricing restrictions (e.g, not allowing you to price below 99 cents), standard practice is to give the author complete control over pricing.

Historically an alternative practice of issuance was for the borrowing government authority to issue bonds over a period of time, usually at a fixed price, with volumes sold on a particular day dependent on market conditions.

Despite getting hit with a lawsuit over its student loan servicing practices by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Navient's joint book runners Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Barclays, and RBC were able to price an asset backed security offering above the one month Libor.According to a report in Global Capital, Navient's $ 270 million in A1 -LSB-...]

In practice, index funds are based on market capitalizations and share pricing, so dilution or repurchase effects are largely irrelevant within that valuation scheme (however, it would be interesting to see a mutual fund invest in all companies of an index at a fixed, flat ownership position over all companies over time).

A practice in California switch all of their shampoos to private labeled products and increased their prices on average 30 - 50 % over current pricing.

If 60 % of products are set to fixed pricing in the practice management software, and the practice experiences a typical 14 % increase in inventory costs, that results in a loss of almost $ 16,000 in the first year, which equates to $ 50,000 over three years.

I still don't understand how they can sell this for full price though considering the lack of Keys, practice mode, barebones budget visual design / animations, lack of wired instrument support on Xbox One, drum freestyle mode, static vocals lyric display, lack of Rock Band Network import (so missing over 2000 songs) etc. though.

Each pioneered new approaches to their favored mediums, and today their groundbreaking works are heralded in museums the world over, garner record prices on the auction block, and continue to influence emerging practices.

Michael Rosenfeld Gallery attracted private and institutional collectors and curators, and finished the day with a $ 450,000 sale of one of their Beauford Delaney paintings; Lehmann Maupin reported «strong sales throughout the preview» on paintings by Hernan Bas, which range from $ 30,000 — 200,000 each; Marian Goodman Gallery associate director Emily - Jane Kirwan told us their Giuseppe Penone booth garnered «fantastic interest»; Mnuchin Gallery partner Sukanya Rajaratnam noted that reception of their booth was «extremely positive»; and by 7:30 pm, two of Betty Cuningham's Bill Traylor works, each priced over $ 100,000, had been dotted red (a pricing practice the dealer still embraces).

We estimate that gas spot prices in New England over the period from August 2013 to July 2016 were 38 percent higher due to these scheduling practices.

Pimentel noted that although cash crops can not be grown as frequently over time on organic farms because of the dependence on cultural practices to supply nutrients and control pests and because labor costs average about 15 percent higher in organic farming systems, the higher prices that organic foods command in the marketplace still make the net economic return per acre either equal to or higher than that of conventionally produced crops.

When you realize that the U.S. is the Saudi Arabia of natural gas and coal the artificial shortages that have been created by those who oppose free enterprise capitalism are a lot like the illegal tacticts used by others over the years to run up commodity prices using monopolistic practices.

Our broad, international network of specialist attorneys built over decades of practicing law covers the entire spectrum of pricing models, practice groups, and firm structures.

While the Competition Bureau has announced a deal aimed at lowering the price of electronic books, a class action over the practices of Apple Inc. and several major publishers will go ahead, according to a lawyer involved in the case.

Los Angeles partner and Fashion practice group leader Staci Riordan provides third - party commentary in this piece about an increasing number of class - action lawsuits against big - name department stores over markdowns allegedly made on «false» original prices.

Despite the clear statements from the Supreme Court of Canada in Canada v. GlaxoSmithKline3 that as long as pricing is within the range of observed comparables, the pricing will be considered to meet the arm's length standard, in practice, disputes will arise over the selection of methods, the identification of the comparables, the adjustments to be made to comparables and whether (and to what extent) the surrounding facts and circumstances need to be taken into account to derive appropriate pricing.

Michelle Johnson has been practicing transfer pricing for over seventeen years.

State senator aims to put price optimization to rest Oklahoma drivers have been seeing their auto insurance premiums steadily grow over the past few years, and one of the state's legislators want to put an end to a practice that has contributed to this problem.

In August, a shareholder filed a class action suit claiming that Yelp withheld information about an FTC investigation over its negative review practices in order to goose its stock price.

An important irony in this case is that those who criticize American Express's practices, who are arguing these practices limit price competition and that merchants should be able to steer customers to lower - fee cards, generally also argue that modern antitrust law focuses too myopically on prices and fails to account for competition over product quality.

An important irony in this case is that those who criticize American Express's practices, who are arguing these practices limit price competition and that merchants should be able to steer customers to lower - fee cards, generally also argue that modern antitrust law focuses too myopically on prices and fails to account for competition over product

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Therefore discounted pricing for the same level of services to one client over another is not a practice I offer to anyone.