Sentences with phrase «rather than lower prices»

So far in Australia that would mean higher rather than lower prices!

Due to the actions of the Bank of Canada, the benefit comes in the form of higher wages rather than lower prices.

Rather than lowering prices again, he dropped the discount market altogether.

Falling tax revenues pushed government budgets even further into deficit, and rising interest rates increased rather than lowered prices.

With the launch of a second - generation 5.8 - inch iPhone X and a larger 6.5 - inch «iPhone X Plus,» rumors suggest Apple will flat out discontinue the current iPhone X rather than lowering its price tag and selling it as a lower - cost older - generation device.

Not exact matches

Rather than protecting shoppers, the Competition Bureau seems more interested in harassing stores that have low prices and interfering in legitimate marketing strategies.

Western Australia's only onshore oil producer has suspended production after being hit by the low oil price and the high cost of trucking its output to Wyndham rather than the much closer port at Broome.

But the reason they're expecting to do well this year has more to do with their marketing efforts, rather than the recovering economy or other factors like low oil prices, according to a small business holiday survey from Constant Contact, an online marketing firm in Waltham, Massachusetts.

After a period of prolonged low oil prices, many offshore drillers are focusing on tying new wells in the Gulf of Mexico to existing infrastructure, rather than investing billions in new offshore platforms, he said.

If you are having a hard time selling services at an acceptable profit, the problem may be that your employee costs are too high rather than the price is too low.

(And the fact that it carries a $ 399 price point — significantly lower than Facebook's Oculus Rift or HTC's Vive — may make it even more friendly to a larger general audience, rather than just tech enthusiasts.)

However, some customers didn't even notice the price cuts or said they weren't lower enough to make a difference, as they seemed to be focused on specific items rather than being implemented across the board.

Rather than selling half of the investor's shares at a lower price, the Market Maker will fill the remaining 500 shares of the order at $ 5.

M2C companies espouse high - quality products at lower prices because they make direct relationships with manufacturers rather than working through the traditional importer to brand to buyer relationships.

If the company had done its due diligence, it would have found that I would rather pay $ 1 more for the old recipe than the same price for a lower quality product.

At Buffer for instance, we have three different pricing options (free, Awesome, Business), and at the Awesome price the price is lower when paying a year in advance rather than month - to - month.

Acura's pricing was friendly too, targeted at the low end of premium ($ 19,893) rather than the top.

Examples of such projects providing marginal benefits are: improving financial reporting systems through better information technology, minor tweaks to supply chain logistics, cutting back on marketing or increasing low - cost advertising (like social media), «rationalization» of head count, holding average wages as low as possible, squeezing suppliers a little bit, not repatriating earnings to stave off taxation, refinancing rather than retiring debts, and the share buyback that is insensitive to a company's current stock price.

It has been wrong all these years, but starting in the latter half of»96 and continuing into» 97, IPOs have been going off at the lower end of their target stock - price ranges and staying there awhile, rather than more than doubling the first day out, as, say $ 1.4 - million Yahoo! did in» 96.

With competitors making lower - priced equipment, one interesting turn has been how VR tech has made its way into more ordinary products, rather than developing on a specialist - equipment trajectory.

Rather than chasing the price action, we decided to patiently wait for a pullback or other low - risk buy entry to develop.

Armed with such results, Shell and Total are in payback mood to investors, buying back shares after diluting stakes with scrip dividends - consisting of shares rather than cash - introduced after the price crash which sent oil prices as low as $ 28 a barrel.

Rather than the income boost going solely to the resource industry, lower import prices raised the real incomes of all Australians.

The lawsuit claims that rather than competing with one another to offer a lower, «real» price to the insurers, the drug makers are vying to offer the best payment to the pharmacy benefit manager, which is why they have been raising the list price.

Rather than Uber's approach of a lower distance - based fare with more emphasis on surge pricing, Grab said it «always maintained a competitive per KM fare with 2.0 surge max.»

To deliver its value proposition of lower prices, Aldi has completely redesigned the typical business system of a supermarket: only 1,500 or so products rather than 30,000, the stocking of one own - brand or private label rather than hundreds of national brands, and superlean replenishment on pallets and trolleys, thus avoiding the expensive task of hand stacking shelves.

Their cost of capital is a function partly of low interest rates and part of the implicit share price is a function of the fact that investors have looked at equities for dividends rather than bonds for yield because the bond market is so expensive.

Dealing with a lender, rather than a usual homeowner, may mean slower response times and a more difficult negotiation, but it can lead to a potentially lower price from a motivated seller that has already handled outstanding taxes.

However, since the price action setup tail high or low is very close to a key level in the market, logic would dictate that we make our stop loss a little bit larger and place it just beyond that key level, rather than at the high or low of the setup's tail.

If a charity uses your vehicle for their own purposes (such as a local Goodwill using your van to pick up donations) and eventually sells it, and is able to provide proof of its use in the meantime, you may be able to deduct the vehicle's original value rather than its lower sale price.

Then if you think you're unlucky because the market sells off just after you bought, think again and reconsider whether or not you were unlucky or whether you just got your wish and are now able to scale in at lower rather than higher prices as you build your positions before the Gold Rocket Ship blasts - off.

Rather than book any big losses in 2015 and 2016, if they could hang on until 2017 then the big economic boom being predicted would pay off especially for where junk prices had been at the lows.

Rather than follow a disastrous road taken by some of her predecessors, and slash funding to government services while the price of oil is low, the NDP government is taking an opportunity to invest in much needed public infrastructure when the economy is slow and the price is right.

BRUSSELS (AP)-- Consumer price inflation in the eurozone was stuck at 0.2 percent in August, a low rate that could encourage the European Central Bank to offer more stimulus sooner rather than later.

For millennials, lower prices show the economy is working well, rather than dampen consumption,» Rabe writes.

This means, rather than having to sell our HII shares if they closed above the strike price, with put options, we would have to buy HII shares if they closed below the strike price — which would be a good thing since we could add HII back to our portfolio at a much lower price.

When this idea was attacked, on the grounds that the new Medicare subsidy might not be adequate to purchase sufficient health care benefits, Ryan changed his proposal so that Medicare would have a «defined benefit,» but the size of the government subsidy would be determined by competitive bidding (determining who could provide the benefits at the lowest price), rather than by government bureaucrats.

Woolworths was now competitive on price, he said, but had more work to do to improve value perceptions and build trust in its prices by offering more everyday low prices rather than promotions.

Aldi's's grocery range is about 95 per cent private label and it offers everyday low prices rather than weekly specials.

Indeed, substitution towards lower - priced SSBs could have harmful rather than beneficial effects.

You would start to form a suspicion that what the conduct is really about is damaging the competitor rather than providing lower prices to consumers.»

they'd sell more tickets if they lowered the price, but they'd rather sell a few at high prices than pack the stadium with low prices and have terrible optics.

The currency issue has become more complicated rather than less, and middle class financial insecurity and low oil prices are unlikely to be answered by greater political instability.

Mostly, the lobbying is about competing interests within a country rather than a country's interests as a whole (think the interest of an industry manufacturing an expensive something vs. lower prices for everybody).

Gail Brewer recommended on Thursday — based on estimations by Cushman & Wakefield — that the city lower the minimum price set for air rights to $ 250 per square foot, rather than the current $ 393.

We added it to this 10 best cheap drones list, rather than our mini drone buying guide because of the low price.

Various attempts to call a guaranteed price «a low carbon electricity tariff,» rather than a subsidy, have not satisfied critics.

For buyers that choose to avoid hormones, hormone - free (rather than all - out organic) dairy products offer the same benefits at a potentially lower price.

Rather than being expensive, eating keto can in fact be cheaper than the «standard» diet, as fatty cuts of meat are usually low priced.

And while it's kind of expensive for my current budget, I've tried to start investing in staple pieces that are better quality (and usually higher in price) rather than cheap, low quality clothing.