Sentences with phrase «price wars among»

Analysts say that ongoing price wars among insurance providers are keeping premiums down.

Airline travel changed the way many poor traveled to the United States, especially in the latter part of the 20th century when price wars among airlines made air travel affordable for most travelers.

In the midst of price wars among competitors, the company is particularly proud of remaining one of the lowest cost brokers.

The author discussed the recent price wars among brokerage firms, noting that Interactive Brokers provides the best price improvement on trades in the industry and is the leader in low cost margin loans.

I'm all for price wars among discount brokerages, but I worry about the level of service clients receive in the bargain basement.

The news sent the shares of grocers like Kroger (kr), Supervalu (svu) Sprouts Farmers Market (sfm) and even Walmart, the largest U.S. grocer, and Target (tgt), down on fears of an intensification of the price wars among the food retailers and that fact that Amazon will instantly have 450 new physical locations.

A fierce ongoing price war among the Big Four is only compounding the pressure telecoms are facing.

A fierce and ongoing price war among the Big Four carriers is only compounding the pressure telecoms are facing.

The first was about a price war among the discount brokerages.

Amazon's Alexa just learned her 25,000 th skill, and the Echo started a price war among voice - activated smart home speakers.

A glut of crude oil as demand weakens has ignited a price war among OPEC members, bringing crude prices to four year lows.

The publisher makes its agreed upon royalty — which it goes on to divide with the author according to their contract — and the consumer stands to benefit from an all - out price war among the retailers.

Recently, there has been a minor price war among the vendors of e-book readers.

Let's start by stating the obvious: the ongoing price war among Canada's big three ETF providers has been a boon for index investors.

Thanks to the ongoing price war among major index - fund providers, all three funds are now on offer at extraordinarily low annual expenses.

Not exact matches

The inflation wars of the 1970s and 1980s led to a broad consensus on two fronts among academics and policymakers: First, central banks are responsible and accountable for price stability, which was often acknowledged through the formal adoption of an inflation targeting framework.

A number of factors have contributed, including concerns about dropping oil prices, slowing growth in China and geopolitical tensions (among them, concerns over the Syrian civil war and refugee crisis and ISIS attacks).

But among them, the Saudis and smaller Gulf states have more than enough cash stashed in reserves, as well as sovereign wealth funds — at least $ 3 - trillion in various funds they can tap — to wage this price war for years.

Here's how Tertzakian summed up the situation: «The oil price war of 2015 ranks among the most challenging of any downturn in the 155 - year history of Canada's oil and gas industry.»

Muchembled also resists a Western triumphalist narrative by suggesting that the taming of domestic violence was not simply the result of a progressive civilizing process» marking European civilization as the height of human evolution» but came at the price of colonial conquest on other continents and terribly destructive wars among nations in Europe.

During the Revolutionary War, the demand for coffee increased so much that dealers had to hoard their scarce supplies and raise prices dramatically; this was also due to the reduced availability of tea from British merchants, and a general resolution among many Americans to avoid drinking tea following the 1773 Boston Tea Party.

«A civil war has broken out among the most powerful players in the pharmaceutical industry — including brand - name and generic drug makers, and even your local pharmacists — with each blaming others for the rising price of medicine.»

Risen's book, Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War, draws heavily on more than 600 e-mails that chronicle an online discussion from 2003 to 2006 among officials at APA, the CIA, and the White House under President George W. Bush.

A number of factors congealed during this decade to end the American muscle car wars, among them high fuel prices and ever escalating insurance rates.

If you haven't heard about it yet, there is a huge price war going on among companies that sell e-reader devices.

Reports from both the Globe and Mail and the Financial Post this week suggest a price war is brewing among Canada's biggest grocers.

Among those forces were the baby boom, in which post-World War II babies matured and entered the housing market; deregulation of the mortgage finance industry, which gave lenders the freedom to offer a wide variety of loans, and a high inflation rate that combined with soaring housing prices to convince consumers that home ownership was safe and sure.