Sentences with phrase «to keep prices high»

The third alternative — keeping prices high for reasons that don't convince readers — isn't a winning business strategy for selling their products.

Gold mutual funds are secure and backed by the various investors, which keep the prices high in a volatile market.

If you remember to keep your price higher when selling to a library, you won't lose revenues.

Demand for properties keeps prices high and typically pushes them higher over time, so finding an available in - demand property is a good first step.

They also keep the prices higher longer than any other publisher on the market.

Because changes in the market away from fossil fuels will inevitably make those energy sources less expensive, carbon taxes keep their prices high, reflecting the costs imposed on society by carbon emissions.

If they buy back stock at levels that are too high, it does not increase the intrinsic value of the firm, though it might keep the price higher for a little while.

In April, China took steps to keep prices high by extending a national ban on rare - earth exploration and the opening of new mines.

The controlled system has succeeded in stabilizing production while keeping prices high and steady, argues Simon Trépanier, assistant director of the federation.

If the current industry can't keep their prices high while competing with instant distribution of a vastly expanded literature — and that seems to be their only assertion worth taking at face value — then it's time for them to figure out how to make a business out of improved access.

In December, attorneys general in 20 states accused Mylan and five other firms of conspiring to illegally keep prices high on an antibiotic and a diabetes drug.

But better products and inventory management, two of retailers» most talked - about tools for keeping prices high over the holidays, have to compete with buyers» memories of years of price cuts of 50 percent or more.

Detached homes are still most sought - after and their tight supply keeps prices high even as some condominiums and multi-family projects languish.

In terms of resale value providing both holding and chambers don't decline the fact they are both english / home grown will always keep their price high.

This isn't just about keeping prices high.

Once the text is formatted, there is little in production costs for eBooks, but the publisher wants to keep the price higher so they can sell print, which has both production costs and environmental costs.

It is also remarkable that while the share of the traditional publishing houses (including the Big 5) falls (probably partly due to the publishers artificially keeping the prices high), the indie market grows: individual authors sell more ebooks daily on Amazon than the publishers with ISBN put together.

thereby enforcing the trend of people only going to Haad Rin or Koh Phangan for a couple of days and experiencing only FMP and meaning that resort owners have to keep prices high during these periods as they won't make money the rest of the month when it is quiet.

«They have an interest in not dramatically expanding domestic supply because that will help keep prices high.»

«At the end of the day, increased demand for high - end Apple and Samsung devices keep prices higher than all other devices on the market,» Scarsella said.

That's left much of the market to large builders, who have access to Wall Street funds to finance new projects but have little incentive to increase supply as long as strong demand keeps prices high.

During his decade at Lilly, the company tripled the price of its insulin and was fined for colluding to keep its prices high in Mexico.

As important is keeping the prices high by continued visions of the gallerists understanding of quality art.

«If we're saying it's not keeping prices high — what are we doing here?»

The plane - making duopoly of Boeing and Airbus would continue to reign uncontested, keeping prices high for airlines and their passengers.

The loopholes drug companies use to keep prices high.

Keep your prices high and get everything in writing.

«The stock markets know this, and it keeps prices high.»

As someone in their mid-50's, I am old enough to remember the start of oil - price gouging and the beginning of OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries) holding our energy consumption hostage by controlling the supply of crude and keeping prices high.

This is what will keep the price high, not the cost of making the things.

In the past the Saudi's would cut output to keep prices high, but with Chinese demand weakening the Saudi's are using this as an opportunity to put non-conventional high cost producers out of business, says Timmer.

Its main objective is to control the global oil market, and to keep prices high.

That is keeping prices high.

We continue to artificially support this small group, barely six per cent of all Canadian farmers, by fixing prices, imposing extremely high tariffs to keep those prices high, and controlling production.

That guaranteed the generic drugmaker would have no competition, and so could keep prices high, for at least six months.

That's kept prices high and yields low (bond yields move inversely to prices).

The diamond industry is a classic example of a market where demand is high, but supply is made artificially scarce by companies selling fewer diamonds in order to keep prices high.

Innovation is stifed in this country by a federal and state governments which give inadequate instruction in math and science, allows businesses to send jobs overseas and pays farmers to plow their fields under to keep prices high.

It could put an end to the non-planting or destruction of crops in order to keep prices high for U.S., European or Australian farmers.

In any case, if there were only one manufacturer of a particular produce, such as shoes, the owner would keep the price high.

This will keep prices high and could keep our pods from coming to market.

Cocoa prices have proved resilient in the economic downturn, even as other commodity prices have slumped, and confectionery manufacturers are concerned that tight supply will keep prices high for some time yet.

The Shkreli episode helped highlight how many pharmaceutical companies are, in Gottlieb's words, «gaming» the regulatory system to keep prices high.

People who don't read as often haven't really understood the benefit of ebooks because the big publishers have fought to keep prices high.