Sentences with phrase «said the price hike»

Still, Netflix said the price hike was the right move.

PepsiCo's chairman and CEO Indra Nooyi says price hikes and a focus on premium products like Lay's Poppables and Quaker Overnight Oats helped increase 2017 Q2 sales, despite flat volume growth

Cadillac officials said the price hikes, which apply to Allantes produced after Feb. 7, cover the technical features that have been added to the car, including a new convertible top mechanism, speed dampening and traction control.

The company said the price hike would apply to all Ford products, including the recently launched new Ford EcoSport.

Not exact matches

«The current pace of repricing in fed funds is not immediately problematic for the Fed and there is yet time to price more into the curve, though we'd argue that at the June meeting, it's likely the markets will have to come to grips with the possibility of a fourth hike in 2018 and price more appropriately,» Lyngen said.

Eric Rosenquist, who has a blog called, Adventures in Canadian Cord Cutting, said he cut his satellite TV service in 2012 after the Stanley Cup playoffs due to annual prices hikes.

The Labor Department said its Consumer Price Index inched up 0.1 percent last month, pointing to subdued inflation which could make Federal Reserve policymakers cautious regarding another interest rate hike in 2017.

Activist hedge fund investor and recent Valeant Pharmaceuticals (vrx) board appointee Bill Ackman on Wednesday slammed the company's steep drug price hikes in testimony before the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging, going so far as to say the cost bumps «contributed to healthcare inflation and called into question the company's commitment to the patients it serves.»

One of America's largest restaurant owners says food price inflation and minimum wage hikes will mean a bigger bill at the end of your next meal out.

But some people say that the latest price hike has contributed to making it too expensive for the average family to visit Disney's theme parks.

This partly reflects the fall back in the U.S. dollar on the back of rate hike delays, which has allowed commodity prices, notably oil, to rebound,» said Shane Oliver, head of Investment Strategy and chief economist at AMP Capital.

When you have these kinds of price hikes, which in some cases I believe are just simply criminal and they are done because of greed, it's like putting a gun to somebody's head and saying you need to pay me this very high price for the drug or you die.

Both companies have since rolled back their price increases, and experts say that while drug prices will continue to rise the practice of hiking prices purely for profit may be on the wane.

The price of gold has bounced after each of the five previous U.S. rate hikes and is expected to again, said Ole Hansen, head of commodity strategy at Saxo...

He said the team thinks there aren't enough rate hikes priced into the fixed - income market and therefore he likes the long end of the yield curve, or longer duration bonds.

Additionally, HP is still waiting to see how business customers will react to the price hikes, she said.

«The companies deliberately exploited the opportunity offered by debranding to hike up the price for a drug which is relied upon by many thousands of patients,» Philip Marsden, chairman of the CMA's case decision group, said on Wednesday.

Money managing giant BlackRock said last week a no - hike scenario is possible for 2016, while Bank of America Merrill Lynch also tore up its forecast, now calling for one hike this year — in September, for which the market is pricing in just a 38 percent chance — and no more until March 2017.

Sanofi CEO Olivier Brandicourt said that his company would rely on the U.S. national health expenditures (NHE) growth projection to cap price increases other than for a «sound reason» (in which case the firm would disclose the reasoning behind the bigger hike).

Bresch also said that she and her company take «full responsibility» for the price hike.

Recent subscription hikes at Netflix sent its stock prices into a little tumble; GigaOM rounds up what analysts are saying about the stock.

While Wednesday's rate hike from the Fed was priced in, Odeluga says: «The lack of clear signals about plans to narrow monetary accommodation further — none in the statement and none discernible in chair Janet Yellen's press conference — meant that some of the dollar strength actually had to be unwound.

On Wednesday, Clinton said there was no justification for the price hikes.

I say «curious» because Marathon came under intense scrutiny for its initial plans to hike the drug's price to $ 89,000 per year even though it's available for a mere pittance in other countries (and doesn't actually address the root causes of Duchenne, but rather just some of its muscle - wasting symptoms).

In fact, the drug maker said that its average prices increases have been kept below 10 % each year since 2012, and that the average 2016 hike was 8.5 % (with a 3.5 % net after discounts and rebates).

«I think important medicine should be expensive because they're valuable,» he said, asserting that it's insurance companies» responsibility to make sure such price hikes don't adversely affect patients.

He added that «we'll be consistent in the grandfathering concept,» saying the company learned from the customer backlash it endured in 2011 after splitting apart monthly DVD and streaming plans in what was effectively a price hike.

Speaking at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, AbbVie CEO Richard Gonzalez said his company would limit 2017 price hikes to single digits.

«One of the ongoing problems in the PC market has been the price hike in selected regions due to the weakening local currency against the U.S. dollar,» said Mikako Kitagawa, principal analyst at Gartner.

Baird analyst David Tarantino said this latest round of price increases covers the remaining 45 percent of Chipotle locations that were not affected by price hikes in April and November of last year.

That said, to my eye, market expectations derived from futures prices — which price in about one 25 basis point rate hike through the end of 2017 — appear to be too complacent.

Commerzbank's head of commodity research Eugen Weinberg said oil market fundamentals «do not justify the current price, but unfortunately the market is focusing more on the politics and ignoring some of the warning signs, especially the hike in U.S. oil production.»

Amazon is justifying Prime's 20 percent price hike, to $ 119 a year, by saying it is more a valuable service than when the fee last rose four years ago.

«The biggest problem I face is low unemployment - finding workers,» he said in a phone interview, adding that he is increasing pay every six months to keep staff from leaving for other jobs, and he is hiking his menu prices as well.

«Overall, a report showing strong job growth, a falling unemployment rate, and steady wage gains should be mildly hawkish for markets and supportive of continued but gradual Fed rate hikes, keeping a June hike well priced above 90 per cent,» TD said.

Premiums were steadily rising for all insurance policies for years and experts said the hikes for Obamacare were partly due to them initially being priced artificially low.

NEW YORK (AP)-- Saying she is «disappointed, saddened and deeply concerned» by the price hike of the EpiPen, actress Sarah Jessica Parker has cut ties with the company that makes the emergency allergy treatment.

Bank of Nova Scotia Chief Foreign - Exchange Strategist Shaun Osborne says the Canadian dollar is poised to rally to C$ 1.20 versus its U.S. counterpart by year - end, from C$ 1.2683 at 12:35 p.m. Tokyo time Wednesday, as traders who've been reducing expectations for a third BOC interest - rate hike in 2017 begin to price one back in.

Investors challenge pay packages at pharma companies, saying they incentivize drug price hikes.

With that being said, it might make sense to buy sooner rather than later to avoid possible rate hikes and home - price increases.

Others are speculating that the park companies are getting a price hike out of the way in early 2014 just so that they can add on another price hike before the year is over, without getting as much grief for jacking up prices by, say, $ 10 or $ 12 all at once.

Despite Disney's apparent lack of concern about the potential to scare off remotely budget - conscious vacationers, Frommer.com's Jason Cochran, author of Frommer's Easy Guide to Walt Disney World and Orlando, says that the theme park giant is «playing a dangerous game» not only with the latest price hikes, but with an array of policies that all but force guests to book multi-day vacations (because the per - day costs are astronomical if the visit is short) and to plan every latest detail of one's visit far in advance (because that's the way to get the most out of one's trip).

ANALYST TAKE: «Markets never have been convinced about a rate hike this year but these reports have once again tipped the balance back in favor of a March 2017 move, rather than December, while September is only 15 percent priced in,» said Craig Erlam, chief market analyst at OANDA.

In 2013, the archbishop voiced concerns about energy price hikes and he also said in that year that the Church of England wanted to drive payday lenders out of business through the creation of credit unions.

«When a major international manufacturer decides they will unilaterally force through a price hike without justification, we will resist that,» a Coles spokesman said.

A continued rise in raw material costs will hit lower first half earnings, says bakery ingredients giant CSM in a trading update, with price hikes not enough to offset the surge.

12 August 2016 MEDIA RELEASE University price hike modelling to reduce soft drink consumption ignores real life Responding to a recent study from the University of Melbourne suggesting an increase in soft drink prices would result in reduced consumption, Australian Beverages Council CEO, Geoff Parker said; «A price hike on soft drinks -LSB-...]

Unilever has beat analysts» expectations with a 5.1 % rise in underlying sales in the fourth quarter, but said operating margins were dented by commodity price hikes.

Many manufacturers have responded to recent price hikes by managing their packing inventories more efficiently and by downguaging to lower priced products, says a Standard & Poor's report releasedthis week.

While the availability of whey and lactose products continue to climb during 2008, price volatility has managed to hamper hikes in profitability of the segment as manufacturers hunt for cheaper ingredients, says a new report.