Sentences with phrase «wage this price war»

But among them, the Saudis and smaller Gulf states have more than enough cash stashed in reserves, as well as sovereign wealth funds — at least $ 3 - trillion in various funds they can tap — to wage this price war for years.

The insurance companies are waging a price war against each other and the customer gets to roast all the benefits in the form of discounts and other value added features.

Microsoft is finally waging a price war against Chromebooks.

Sprint, the third - biggest mobile carrier in the nation, is offering the latest iPhone models through a leasing program that it is banking on to help it catch up with Verizon Wireless and AT&T and gain more customers, even as T - Mobile is aggressively waging a price war from the lower end.

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United Continental CFO John Rainey responds to accusations made Tuesday on «Squawk Box» by Richard Branson that United waged an airfare price war to damage Virgin America.

There are any number of theories explaining the sudden drop in crude oil prices after two years of stability: America's increasing supply, the world's faltering demand, an undeclared price war being waged by Saudi Arabia, the rising U.S. dollar.

Fuel prices have been in a downtrend since June, losing nearly 50 percent of their value, on the back of a price war waged by OPEC (the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries) against the U.S. shale producers and as demand from China decreased amid slowing growth.

Liberal Democrat defence spokesman Nick Harvey said this «exodus» was the price to be paid for waging two separate wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

(I'm mainly waging a losing war to keep the Fisher Price at bay.)

I want to go over the price war Amazon has just agreed to wage with Apple and Google.

Twice now, Hachette and major publishers have waged wars with Amazon over the price of ebooks.

Thirty years ago, no one could have foreseen the huge expansion of the Vietnam War, wage and price controls, two oil shocks, the resignation of a president, the dissolution of the Soviet Union, a one - day drop in the Dow of 508 points, or treasury bill yields fluctuating between 2.8 % and 17.4 %.

The list of challenges included eight bear markets, thirteen recessions, a depression, a world war, an inflation rate that went above 15 %, interest rates below 1 % and above 21 %, the Vietnam war, a presidential assassination, the cold war, wage and price controls and the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Sources indicated last week that officials in Ottawa were not happy with the price war the banks were waging on mortgages, since it potentially encouraged people to borrow more.

During World War II, the United States (US) instituted wage and price controls.

What she calls «claims» from those expressing concerns with the President's plan — that regulating carbon will increase energy prices, hurt the economy, destroy jobs, and wage war on coal — more accurately reflect the facts.

«EPA is waging a war on coal, and a war on affordable electricity prices and jobs.

The shortage of properties has led to bidding wars, which have culminated in house price increases outpacing wage gains.