Sentences with phrase «raise trading costs»

Doing so is likely to increase risk, shift the relative importance of luck and skill, and raise trading costs.

Doing so is likely to increase risk, shift the relative importance of luck and skill, and raise trading costs.

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Tariffs raise the cost of imports, and retaliatory tariffs (which some of our most important trading partners have already threatened) make it more difficult to export.

Online streaming service provider Quickflix has requested a trading halt for at least a month so it can undertake a restructuring program aimed at reducing costs, raising funds and attracting new customers.

Canadian firms can compete in foreign markets partly by making use of lower - cost imported inputs, which raises their productivity.6 And their exports of intermediate products are linked to their trading partner's trade performance.

Ontario and Quebec both have a cap - and - trade system, which would also see some GST revenues raised when applied on higher costs of gasoline and other goods and services as a result of the cap and trade costs.

Layton was responding to criticism from Jack Mintz — the economist oft - quoted by Conservative Leader Stephen Harper as justification for his tax policies — that the cap - and - trade system the NDP proposed to cover the cost of $ 3.5 billion worth of green initiatives in the first year would raise gasoline prices by 10 cents per litre.

However, his sarcasm does raise a question worth exploring: What should active mutual - fund companies do in response to the current outflows from them and into low - cost indexing and exchange - traded funds?

For each trading partner, a trade war could raise domestic production costs, broadly reduce economic output, lower corporate revenues, and pressure margins.

Conversely, a more restrictive trade regime could raise costs for goods, potentially decreasing consumer spending and diminishing growth.

Boston Beer Co Inc raised its full - year 2009 earnings outlook citing earlier - than - anticipated improvement in brewery operating performance and expectations of favorable energy and commodity costs, sending its shares up 5 percent in after - market trade.

The rules govern margins that reflect daily changes in market value in bilateral trades, which are done over the counter; and do not go through clearing - houses, and they can raise the cost of such trades.

However, other factors played a role, including reactions to the non-transparent, lobby - driven trade negotiation process to develop policy for behind - the - border governance issues, the flawed investor - state dispute mechanism, and the controversial intellectual property and cross-border data flow provisions, which promised to raise health - care costs, dampen innovation, and raise privacy concerns.

(a cup of cottage cheese costs $ 2, gas is almost $ 10 a gallon) We decided to live here to have better opportunities for spiritual growth and to raise our kids in a positive environment, but there are trade - offs.

Schweppes has raised prices in the route trade by 4 per cent and has cut back the depth of promotions in supermarkets, citing higher costs for aluminium, PET and PVC plastics, utilities and distribution, according to a Citigroup report on Monday.

The report draws on government and trade statistics, academic evidence and economic theory to challenge arguments that the health and social benefits of reducing alcohol consumption are likely to come at a cost to the economy, finding: · Any reduction in employment and income resulting from lower spending on alcohol would be offset by spending on other goods · Econometric analysis of US states suggests that a 10 % decrease in alcohol consumption is associated with a 0.4 % increase in per capita income growth · Lower alcohol consumption could also reduce the economic costs of impaired workplace productivity, alcohol - related sickness, unemployment and premature death, which are estimated to cost the UK # 8 - 11 billion a year The analysis comes at a timely moment, with health groups urging the Chancellor to raise alcohol duty in next month's Budget.

Over the long term, net exporters may want to alter trade policies to avoid creating their own water shortages or raise prices to reflect the cost of increasingly scarce water resources.

Fewer trades occur, so liquidity in single stocks deteriorates, raising transaction costs.

Implementation issues encountered in designing low - volatility investment strategies include unwelcome concentrations in certain regions, countries, and economic sectors; the combination of low liquidity and high turnover, raising implicit trading costs; and high tracking error relative to broad capitalization - weighted market benchmarks.

The capacity constraint meaningfully raised the portfolios» effective Ns, reducing trading costs, but at the cost of substantial increases in volatility.

In contrast, large actively managed funds incur much higher trading costs in pursuit of better returns, which raises the hurdle than they must get over just to break even on these attempts.

Carol M. Browner, the new White House coordinator for climate and energy, is a seasoned environmental regulator and campaigner who has focused on cap - and - trade legislation, which would steadily raise the cost of unfettered fossil - fuel use, and rule - making as driving the necessary change (as they did with the 20th - century basket of air pollutants).

It's simple arithmetic — coal is very very cheap and will remain so, unless and until you raise its cost using a carbon tax or cap - and - trade, to account for its ill effects.

His proposed cap and trade would generate $ 645 billion in climate revenue, and his budget outlines that money going to help low and middle income families cope with the raised cost of utilities — much like Maryland's.

Gates hammered on points reported here for many years: that without a big, and sustained, boost in spending on basic research and development on energy frontiers, the chances of triggering an energy revolution are nil; that while the private sector and venture capital investors are vital for transforming breakthroughs into marketable products or services, they will not invest in the long - haul inquiry that's required to generate game - changing breakthroughs; that a 1 or 2 percent tax on carbon - emitting fuels could generate a large, steady stream of money for invigorating the innovation pipeline; that a declining emissions cap and credit trading system --- if it could survive America's polarized politics --- would have to raise energy costs far beyond what would be politically tenable to generate a similar scale of transformational activity.

What should not happen is the implementation of any cap and trade system that will only serve to make speculators rich and raise the cost of energy.

Me and others have been predicting that AB32's cap & trade will raise the cost of power to the point that people could be left unable to afford power for their homes and could cause businesses to head elsewhere where power is cheap.

But Romm never grapples with why cap and trade can not achieve large emissions reductions, which is that voters and policymakers will not raise the price of fossil fuels high enough to make clean energy cost competitive.

Consider that the latest version of cap and trade would have raised $ 177 billion every year and cost the average American family several thousand dollars per year in higher gasoline and electricity costs.

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Current economic studies also suggest that the most efficient policy is to raise the cost of CO2 emissions substantially, either through cap - and - trade or carbon taxes, to provide appropriate incentives for businesses and households to move to low - carbon activities.

This proprietary trading limitation could affect the liquidity of the commercial real estate markets, which would ultimately raise costs and slow growth.