Sentences with phrase «propping up sales»

Last year at this time, the national storyline was about how high demand was propping up sales and prices despite low inventory and months of supply.

As anticipated at the outset of the year, demand has remained high through the first three quarters of 2016, propping up sales and prices despite heavy reductions in inventory and months of supply across the country.

Baby boomers, retirees, empty nesters and Americans are all expected to play a major role in propping up sales and prices from Grand Bend north to Bayfield in coming years.»

Not exact matches

In a Thursday statement, Naspers said it would use the proceeds of the sale to prop up its balance sheet and make some more investments, in areas such as online food delivery and financial technology.

Better macroprudential oversight might have noticed how the sale of those assets was propping up the financial system on brittle pillars, and the selling of these products could have been curbed before disaster struck.

DETROIT (AP)-- Chrysler Group LLC's third - quarter net profit rose 32 percent as worldwide sales continued to climb, helping the U.S. company prop up its ailing parent.

DiNapoli's office found cited the start of a new debt structure propped up by the state's sales tax revenue that would allow for new borrowing methods by public authorities that are done so without voter approval.

Hoping to prop up the struggling yellow - cab industry, a Manhattan lawmaker is proposing a tested sales technique: two vehicles for the price of one medallion.

Aside from dinner with the girls one night, I just propped up on the couch in the evening and of course — shopped the Nordstrom Anniversary sale at night!

Bringing to mind the apocryphal tale of Ernest Hemingway's shortest story ever — «For sale: grown actor's jock strap, worn a lot» — a new prop auction has opened up, allowing Dirty Grandpa superfans to take their picks of the movie's memorabilia.

Up for sale are t - shirts, costumes, hats, props and more.

Now, Sergio wants to take Jeep international, while at the same time, propping up Maserati and Alfa sales.

The return of subprime credit, which virtually disappeared during the height of the recession, was propping up car sales in the U.S., Westcott says.

The Honda CR - Z Hybrid was propped up as a successor to the CRX, but failed miserably in the sales department due to excessive weight and uninspiring handling.

The company also is trying to prop up its flagging 505 model's sales through incentives and an intensified ad campaign.Sales of the 505 from Jan. 1 to March 31 totaled 1,247 vs. last year's 2,273 sales in the same period.

Part of this is a legacy of the returns policy of publishers which was initiated in the 30s to prop up bookstore sales during the Depression and then continued ever since.

Newsstand, or single - copy, sales have been considered the best gauge of consumer demand because they can't be propped up by deeply discounted subscriptions or free copies distributed in public places such as doctors» offices.

Of course, they would also not be canibalizing their ebook sales to prop up hard covers, so forget I said anything.

Propped up by BookBub and Facebook ads, the tail of organic sales kept us bobbing in our chosen rank — 1000 - 2000 — for months.

This artificial scarcity was an attempt to prop up the often - precarious businesses that still form the bulk of comic sales.

They probably are also watching brick and mortar sales decline, and are seeing the returns go up as shelf space shrinks, and are less willing to fight a war against their readers and writers just to prop up old business partners.

Trad Pub is using expensive ebooks to prop up hardback and paper sales.

A U.S. company specializing in spiffing up high - end houses for sale is taking the concept of home staging a step further with the incorporation of a specialty prop — humans.

It seems that we have a perfect storm of various groups pushing for such legislation — oftentimes with ulterior motives, such as eventually instituting overall pet sale bans — and regulators eager to find new sources of revenue to help prop up struggling state and local governments.

Second, this year Activision will prop up its lower - than - expected DLC sales for Infinite Warfare by providing new content for 2015's Call of Duty: Black Ops 3, as many players are still happily playing that.

Peter Moore is today denying accusations that he was seen leaving a local gaming store with an entire shopping trolley full of Titanfall 2 discs in an attempt to prop up disappointingly low sales...

Public exhibitions propping up private sales.

~ If you buttonhole me at the DC Court of Appeals, I promise to autograph any copies of The [Un] documented Mark Steyn shoved under my nose - and don't forget, all profits from book sales and trial merchandise and gift certificates go to prop up my end of this interminable case.

WASHINGTON (June 28, 2017)-- The ongoing supply shortages that are propping up home prices in many metro areas caused pending home sales in May to slump for the third consecutive month, according to the National Association of Realtors ®.

I suspect based on the investor feedback some major fraud going on here with fake tenants etc. all done to prop up new sales