Sentences with phrase «prices boosted hopes»

Still, German analyst and investor sentiment rose sharply in December for a second month running, as a decline in the euro and oil prices boosted hopes for a pickup although a composite PMI covering Europe's largest economy showed weaker growth.

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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.

Private equity firm KKR & Co LP said it would convert from a partnership to a corporation after US tax reform made the tax hit less painful, a move that it hopes will boost its share price by attracting more investors.

Morgan Stanley analysts are upgrading automaker Tesla's stock to overweight and significantly boosting their price target, citing improved hopes for the Model 3 launch, better prospects for electric vehicle production, less competition and a «supportive political environment.»

Bernanke, the widely criticized chairman of the Federal Reserve, shot back Sunday evening at the inflation hawks who claim quantitative easing — the Fed's plan to buy $ 600 billion of Treasury debt over eight months, in hopes of boosting asset prices and nudging a sluggish economy forward — will send inflation soaring and destroy the dollar.

That said, Buffalo Wild Wings hopes to boost profits by adapting its most popular promotional day, Half - Priced Wing Tuesdays, to feature its boneless wings rather than its currently high - cost traditional wings.

Whole Foods co-CEO Walter Robb conceded on an earnings call with analysts that investments in lower prices were taking «longer than we would have hoped» in providing a boost to sales.

Of course there's a trap at 54 million, besides he did not get the boost he hoped for by moving to Napoli so I am not sure why should we pay double the price Napoli paid for him.

There promises to be much more jostling left in this deal, as Venlo hope the competition forces an auction, to dramatically boost the price.

Roy Price, head of Amazon Studios, hopes that the two Globes won Sunday night by «Mozart in the Jungle» will give it a similar boost.

I should add that some people * do * adopt a strategy of 99cent launches for a few days for every book — basically giving their core fans the discount price and hoping that will boost the book enough to grab the notice of others at full price.

In what may yet prove a canny move, Tesco is making the device available under its Clubcard Boost scheme, doubling the value of shoppers» vouchers and club card points which, Tesco hopes, will reduce the price to under # 100 for many buyers.

How this works against the Xbox1 and Microsoft, is the fact bad news travels fast, so when this sale is all said and done, there will still be mumblings in the air as to how Microsoft lowered the price of the Xbox1 and also gave away a free game, this in itself will encourage would be buyers to hold off purchasing in the hopes that another sale would perhaps happen, it also compounds the ability for Microsoft to sell the Xbox1 at a consistent pace, they will see boosts, then sharp decline in sales due to those waiting on these specific deals.

Environmentalists often cheer rising energy prices, hoping they will encourage conservation, boost support for higher efficiency standards, and make renewable sources more cost - effective.

The bill hopes to boost the generation of clean energy to help combat climate change and minimise price rises.

Apple, however, hopes that the 2018 models could boost demand thanks to a rather different approach, including what could be reduced prices for its devices.

Lower sales volume and better pricing is becoming a familiar pattern, one that real estate agents hope will encourage more potential sellers to list their homes and boost inventory.

Bargain hunting leads many agents to list houses a little below asking, in the hope that buyers show up and boost the sale price near that level or above.