Sentences with phrase «price boost of»

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To help pay for all of that great content, the service has boosted its price in the U.S. and some other markets, and it is counting on foreign subscribers to pony up in all of its new markets as well.

Chinese tariffs and taxes boost the price of Tesla's sedans and SUVs in the country by 50 % compared with the U.S.; the Model S sedan starts at the equivalent of $ 105,000, and the Model X at $ 130,000.

* Trump accuses OPEC of «artificially» boosting oil prices.

MANILA / BEIJING, May 3 (Reuters)- China opens trade in Dalian iron ore futures to foreign investors from Friday, aiming to boost its pricing clout for one of its top imports and hoping traders will take a market notorious for retail speculators more seriously.

A day later, Iran said it liked the idea of a coordinated effort to boost prices, yet it stopped short of pledging to limit production.

But the company will benefit from the fund's decision to use XRP, in part because it controls large reserves of the currency (which may get a price boost from Arrington's announcement) and because the move may burnish Ripple's reputation as a money transfer platform.

Still, the Fed chairman reiterated his argument that lower rates boost growth by helping increase prices of stocks, homes and other assets.

Food makers such as Kraft and Mondelez have reported soft volume as they've boosted the prices of their products to help offset the higher commodity costs.

They applied a methodology designed to capture the income - boosting effects of shifting inputs to industries where prices are rising, and they obtained productivity estimates that are much less alarming than those produced by Statistics Canada.

In its report Thursday, the Bank of Canada said foreign demand has contributed to price growth in Vancouver and Toronto, which in turn has boosted overall household indebtedness.

That «Price Beat» strategy has boosted sales, says Christopher Bennett, director of corporate communications for parent company Best Buy, which opted to close 50 of its U.S. stores in March after reportedly losing sales to Amazon.

While fluctuations in the global price of coffee on the commodity markets led industry behemoth Starbucks to boost its per - cup price tag last month, a growing share of consumer dollars are going to higher - cost specialty or craft coffee.

Phoenix Gold has reiterated shareholders should reject a cash and scrip takeover offer from Evolution Mining, even though a rise in Evolution's share price has boosted the value of the deal.

Though the firm, along with many others, expects Apple to use its mountain of repatriated overseas cash to boost share prices through the repurchase of stock, it says the result will fail to overrule the iPhone slowdown.

TORONTO — The Toronto stock market ended Tuesday on a high note as a surge in oil prices boosted energy stocks and rumours of U.S. wireless carrier Verizon entering the Canadian market appeared to lose steam.

Seeking to appease investors with boosts to share prices, CEOs are prioritizing short - term returns at the expense of R&D, workforce training and other investments essential to their companies» long - term growth.

Senior OPEC leaders have indicated they see room for prices to rise further and have no intention of boosting output before the end of 2018.

Meanwhile, if millions of customers choose not to upgrade to a new gaming console, companies respond by reducing prices to boost demand.

Once that happens, Qualcomm will need to negotiate with a group of funds that have taken a position in the Dutch company's stock, demanding a boost to the $ 110 - a-share price agreed to by NXP's board.

Bitcoin is about to get a big dose of legitimacy, something that could be helping to boost its price.

Earlier this week, Facebook dropped the price of its Oculus Rift headset to $ 400 as part of a temporary summer sale intended to boost sales.

Alternatively, it is possible that managers whose compensation is tightly linked to stock performance become more aware of buyback's positive announcement effects in recent years and use buyback announcements to boost up stock prices for their own benefits.

And with recent news of consolidation under a new parent company called Alphabet, many believe this could result in more clarity and transparency on Google's wide - range of businesses, and boost the stock price even more.

Still, Sal Guatieri, a senior BMO economist, wrote last week that «in no way are family incomes growing fast enough to justify the rampant price moves,» nor can it be explained by a sudden spike in mortgage lending, which was given a boost by the Bank of Canada's two rate cuts last year.

The Saudi - led Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) will meet Thursday to work out a plan to cut global oil supplies and boost prices, but OPEC member Iran has an incentive and the power to screw the whole plan up.

«Cosmetics boost the awareness of a brand, especially in emerging markets because they are the first thing of luxury [that] emerging market consumers buy due to their cheaper price,» said Nicola Ko, senior luxury analyst at Ledbury Research.

Global banking giant J.P. Morgan has forecast an average price of $ 70 a barrel in 2018 on the back of global economic growth boosting the demand for energy.

The FCC is forcing consumers and businesses to pay a huge price in order to boost the profits of telecommunications and cable companies.

«Faster economic growth over most of the past year has tightened labor and product markets and helped to boost prices at a faster pace,» David Berson, chief economist at Nationwide, said in a note.

At Ford's annual shareholder meeting in May, a frustrated investor even asked about bringing former CEO Alan Mulally out of retirement to boost the company's share price.

In February 2018 CNBC reported that conventional market wisdom predicted «wild market swings» which could boost the price of gold.

«Overall, the tone of this report was disappointing as it points to a weak start to spending activity this year, despite the significant boost to disposable income from lower gasoline prices,» said Millan Mulraine, deputy chief economist at TD Securities in New York.

But, according to new data from Moody's Analytics which analyzed housing prices in over 3,000 counties across the US, housing markets in some rural areas of the country might see a small boost.

* The price of silver will depend heavily on trends in investment demand in 2018, but could get a boost from international political and economic risk purchases, CPM Group said on Tuesday.

The 32 - year - old CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals became a target of widespread ire in September when he boosted the price of the toxoplasmosis treatment Daraprim by over 5,000 % after acquiring the drug in August.

Because of the likelihood that pursuing an acquisition will boost a company's revenue growth and thus its share price, investors have increasingly been pressuring pharmaceutical firms such as Gilead Sciences (GILD) and Teva to strike deals.

* Trump accuses OPEC of «artificially» boosting oil prices (Adds comment, U.S. / OPEC spat; updates prices)

Trump last Friday accused OPEC of «artificially» boosting oil prices, threatening on Twitter that this «will not be accepted,» drawing rebukes from several of the world's top oil exporters within OPEC.

Oil prices showed no sign of fading though, having added as much as 3 % on Wednesday after a third surprise weekly drop in U.S. crude stockpiles boosted the demand outlook in the world's largest oil consumer.

Since then, though, NGL Energy has divested some of the same assets, which lowered its revenue more than 30 % in fiscal 2016, but boosted its sagging stock price.

The company's Wednesday earnings release, in which Cisco announced a $ 25 billion increase in its stock buyback program and a dividend boost of 14 %, helped lead to a 6.7 % jump in its stock price in after - hours trading.

First of all, anything that boosts productivity is a positive for both the oil industry and the environment — if DOE has indeed found a better recipe for upgraded heavy oil, Alberta's producers will be happy to take it up (if the economics and P.R. opportunity of using more efficient, cleaner technology weren't enough, the province's carbon price gives them a further incentive).

While Nordstrom wanted to perform well this holiday season, there was some concern that delivering too strongly could boost its stock price and edge the price out of financing range.

Sony (SNE) is cutting the price of its PlayStation 4 videogame console to around $ 350 from $ 400 to boost sales ahead of the year - end holiday season.

A deal with the French oil giant Total to sell d.light's new S300 (about $ 30) and S20 (priced in the mid-teens) in its gas stations in countries like Cameroon, Indonesia and the Republic of Congo, has boosted shipments from less than 30,000 to more than 500,000 lanterns each month.

Buoyed by an unquenchable thirst for short - term stock gains, traders and activist investors are mounting pressure on a wide array of companies to cut research and capital expenditures in order to increase stock buybacks and thus boost stock prices.

So while a few industries in the U.S. got a small boost from Trump's new tariffs, more industries are feeling the pain of higher prices selling to China.

Both Abu Dhabi and Dubai are encouraging the development of theme parks to help boost foreign tourist arrivals as oil prices slump, causing an economic slowdown in the region.

It said earlier this month that oil prices would have to stabilize above current levels of $ 50 per barrel for producers to make any meaningful boost to oilfield plans.

Strong credit markets give companies borrowing options to boost their stock prices, while making bearish investors scramble to close out trades before losing any more money, both of which then push the stock market even higher and continue the self - reinforcing bullish cycle.