Or, even more challenging, can we accurately forecast
small cost differences between two very different possible future scenarios involving very different mixes of technologies?
The fact that you get a lower interest rate — and that you have less interest to pay overall — means that when it comes to the monthly payment, there is often
a smaller cost difference than you might think between a 15 - year loan and 30 - year loan.
Not exact matches
Economics Sometimes the price
difference really is pure economics: Canada is a sprawling country with a
small population, which means higher
costs for shipping, storage, distribution and economies of scale.
The
difference in
cost between debit and credit transactions for a
small business is around 3 %.
In Canada there didn't use to be much point in looking for the best bank for
small business when you were looking for a business bank account; for years, the only
difference between business bank accounts and personal ones has been that business bank accounts
cost a lot more in fees.
No one has suggested anything of the sort, unless of course asking people to be aware of their privilege, listening to those who don't have it, and doing what they can to address it in their daily lives (see Mary Anne's comment for a beautiful illustration of how even
small gestures make a
difference) is something that comes «at personal
cost.»
But for a company that is just making ends meet because their production
costs are so close to the gold price, a
small rise in the price of their product will make a big
difference to their bottom line.
«However, it's the right thing to do, and the
cost differences are
small enough that it made plenty of sense for me to pursue this opportunity.
It wasn't terrible defending from Arsenal that
cost them, but just
small details made a
difference as Benteke could have been challenged more in the air, Bellerin could have been quicker to close down Allen and Cech might have got a stronger hand on the ball to keep it out.
OT — a new Lancet paper on caseload midwifery vs rostered midwifery — apparently showed a relatively
small difference in
cost but no significant
difference in any of the other things they measured.
Differences in perinatal effects were small; however these are magnified in the incremental cost effectiveness ratio calculations, as the mean differences in effects are used as the denominators of the incremental cost effectiven
Differences in perinatal effects were
small; however these are magnified in the incremental
cost effectiveness ratio calculations, as the mean
differences in effects are used as the denominators of the incremental cost effectiven
differences in effects are used as the denominators of the incremental
cost effectiveness ratios.
It will
cost businesses — both big and
small — absolutely nothing, but it will make a huge beneficial
difference throughout the state for working families.
The
cost difference is due, in part, to the
smaller scale of the MyMicrobes operation, and in part to the size of the bacterial genome, which Bork says contains around 5 billion letters of DNA, compared to the 3.3 billion in the human genome.
The study also reveals sharp
differences in out - of - pocket
costs for people who chose «consumer - directed» health plans offered by their employers — which often take the
smallest bite out of each paycheck — and for people who bought individual private plans during the study period.
For each purchase you make Amazon gives us a
small kick back (you won't notice any
difference in your shopping experience or
costs).
The Ashden Sustainable School Awards judging panel found Marton Primary School to be an excellent role model for other
small schools where the staff and pupils have adopted a very simple approach, focusing on low
cost or no
cost actions such as behaviour change to really make a
difference.
Finally, all the reported
differences between NBCTs and non-certified teachers are relatively
small, especially given the program's
cost.
It's not about huge capital spending —
small things that don't
cost the earth can make a huge
difference.
But this is not the main driver of the
cost difference between
small and large schools.
The
difference in
cost to build a GMC Sierra 1500 Denali compared to a Chevy Silverado 1500 is pretty
small.
The actual
difference would be a bit
smaller, since you usually get a little better MPG with the higher octane (or so they claim), or even in favor of the 91 if the lower octane fuel causes a costly repair (multiply
cost of repair by the probability of repair)
And a
small difference in actual
cost.
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Even in an RRSP, the total
difference of 14 basis points is not likely to outweigh the
cost of currency conversion in
smaller accounts.
Patrick Cunningham, vice president of Home Savings and Trust Mortgage in Fairfax, Virginia, says a «no -
cost refinance» can provide financial benefits even if the mortgage rate
difference is
smaller than it would be in a traditional refinance since you are financing the closing
costs and fees into the rate and / or loan amount.
If you purchased a
small, single - family home for $ 109,910 over a single - wide manufactured home that
cost $ 45,600, it would only take you 13 years to make up the initial price
difference through an increase in your home's value.
The
small rate
difference cost you more than $ 50,000.
The
cost difference between a yearlong gym membership in bustling cities like New York, Los Angeles, and Miami and
smaller, less metropolitan can be huge — as much as thousands of dollars.
The
difference in interest seems like a
small price to pay for knowing that your
cost of housing is going to remain constant, regardless of the current economic climate.
Seemingly
small differences can
cost you greatly over the life of the mortgage, so shop around.
This feature requires your attention because even a
small difference in your loans's APR can have a big effect on the total
cost of the business loan.
Something seemingly as
small as a 20 point
difference in your credit score can
cost you thousands of dollars over the life of a loan, if it meant that you weren't eligible for the best interest rates available.
It allows for the dialogue on college savings to begin, and it helps families realize that saving even
small amounts in a low -
cost, flexible UESP account can make a
difference in making college more affordable for families.»
After all, if the
cost difference is
small, maybe you can beat it with interest, right?
Passive investing will produce returns close to the level of the benchmark with
small differences arising from fees as well as turnover
costs incurred from securities being bought and sold so as to resemble the benchmark.
Vanguard and I would generally prefer a total stock market index fund to an S&P 500 index fund, because we want some exposure to
small - cap stocks, but the
difference is immaterial compared to high -
cost actively managed funds.
A Senate finance committee report released last year, however, suggested several complex factors were to blame for price
differences between Canada and the U.S., including higher transportation
costs in Canada, more onerous packaging requirements, disparate provincial regulatory requirements, a
smaller Canadian consumer market — and tariffs.
Did anyone council you to try to come up with this
small difference, warning of the disproportionately high PMI
cost for this tiny shortage?
«It's important simply to use low -
cost, broadly diversified ETFs in each asset class, and in many cases the
differences between specific products are so
small they're not worth debating,» says panelist and MoneySense columnist Dan Bortolotti.
This is because the
cost of carry will fall due to the lower interest rate, which in turn results in the
difference between the price of the future and the underlying growing
smaller (i.e. narrowing).
This also means that there can be some pretty big
differences in
cost / mile despite there being only a very
small difference in the number of miles being purchased:
U.S. airlines put Africa and the Middle East in different regions, but the
cost difference is very
small.
Essentially it makes creating a game more similar to filming a
small - scale film, something Hellblade's creative director Tameem Antoniades says has made a huge
difference in terms of time,
cost, and production value.
The
differences in
cost between large and tiny houses are obvious, but this infographic breaks down the hidden
costs of buying a bigger house in a super clear way, creating an even more compelling reason to consider going
small rather than big in real estate choices.
Now I know that the home performance industry says that it only
costs a
small pittance to build homes in a more energy efficient manner and that customers will pay the
difference.
However it noted that «Among
small residential systems installed in 2010, average installed
costs in the U.S ($ 6.9 / W) were substantially greater than in Germany ($ 4.2 / W), which may be partly attributable to
differences in deployment scale».
The team found that, in general, eastbound flights were faster than westbound for all carriers, and that climate change had made a
difference of about a minute per round trip, with a
small extra
cost in fuel on each flight.
Since the
cost differences between baseline and mitigation scenarios within a particular model tend to be fairly
small,
differences in baseline can substantially complicate any effort to do inter-model comparisons.
Dariush Mozaffarian, lead study author and professor at Harvard Medical School, says, «This price
difference is very
small in comparison to the economic
costs of diet - related chronic diseases, which would be dramatically reduced by healthy diets.»
The
difference is a huge
cost that was passed on to the taxpayers or a much
smaller cost that will be kept on the government books will work to achieve sustainable, low
cost greenhouse gas reduction.