Sentences with phrase «war over the price»

The war over the price of oil is useless.

In this week's Weekend Reads: America might get embroiled in a trade war over the price of Bourbon, and it's obviously worth the fight.

Not exact matches

Given the recent war between the federal government and the industry over the prices Canadians pay for wireless service, that may be an understatement.

French President Francois Mitterrand panicked over the prospect of a strong Germany after the Cold War, and prodded Chancellor Helmut Kohl into accepting the euro as a price for German reunification.

The Federal Reserve did not help in the process as their response to increasing oil prices and the war in the Middle East was to RAISE the short term Fed Funds rate from 5.50 to over 10 percent.

The Fed for example fought a difficult battle with inflation in the 1970s, hiking interest rates to recession - provoking levels and eventually winning a war of credibility over its ability to rein in price increases.

In Toronto, where less than a year ago a rundown semi-detached could sell for $ 100,000 or more over asking price, the era of the bidding war is fading.

Not only will the combined carrier reach about the same customer base as larger rivals Verizon (vz) and AT&T (t), but reducing the number of competitors in the market to three from four should also reduce competitive pressure that led to a fierce price war over the past year.

A number of factors have contributed, including concerns about dropping oil prices, slowing growth in China and geopolitical tensions (among them, concerns over the Syrian civil war and refugee crisis and ISIS attacks).

The concern is that fall - out from the Amazon (AMZN) induced grocery store price wars will spill over into all consumer products, make its way back up to all suppliers, and pressure their margins.

A price war has raged in U.S. supermarket aisles for well over a year, bloodying retailers big and small.

Up until a couple of years ago, the grocery price war had largely been fought over mainstream products like soda, soup and cereal, leaving higher - end organics to compete on quality.

Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: our ability to achieve our financial, strategic and operational plans or initiatives; our ability to predict and manage medical costs and price effectively and develop and maintain good relationships with physicians, hospitals and other health care providers; the impact of modifications to our operations and processes; our ability to identify potential strategic acquisitions or transactions and realize the expected benefits of such transactions, including with respect to the Merger; the substantial level of government regulation over our business and the potential effects of new laws or regulations or changes in existing laws or regulations; the outcome of litigation, regulatory audits, investigations, actions and / or guaranty fund assessments; uncertainties surrounding participation in government - sponsored programs such as Medicare; the effectiveness and security of our information technology and other business systems; unfavorable industry, economic or political conditions, including foreign currency movements; acts of war, terrorism, natural disasters or pandemics; our ability to obtain shareholder or regulatory approvals required for the Merger or the requirement to accept conditions that could reduce the anticipated benefits of the Merger as a condition to obtaining regulatory approvals; a longer time than anticipated to consummate the proposed Merger; problems regarding the successful integration of the businesses of Express Scripts and Cigna; unexpected costs regarding the proposed Merger; diversion of management's attention from ongoing business operations and opportunities during the pendency of the Merger; potential litigation associated with the proposed Merger; the ability to retain key personnel; the availability of financing, including relating to the proposed Merger; effects on the businesses as a result of uncertainty surrounding the proposed Merger; as well as more specific risks and uncertainties discussed in our most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.cigna.com as well as on Express Scripts» most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.express-scripts.com.

While we don't know anything about Linda Cook's political affiliations, it would be a safe bet that the Harbour Energy principal would be backing President Donald Trump in his Twitter war with the Saudi oil minister over just what the appropriate direction of oil prices should be.

The latest chapter in the continued tug of war over Tesla's stock price has Goldman Sachs reinforcing its sell position on TSLA, setting a...

Floods in Australia, earthquakes in New Zealand and Japan, high food prices and riots in the world over, and of course there is always war breaking out somewhere.

Bitcoin price (BTC) continues to make small sideways movements over the last week showcasing a tug - o» - war between bulls and bears...

It should be a matter of concern for the bulls that they have once again failed to push through with the advantage that they had, in the form of heightened risks in the Syrian region and over the global trade war fears and this is going to keep the prices under pressure.

Treatment of Jews by Germany spilled over its borders and the whole world paid the price in many subsequent wars.

Intense price wars and retailer consolidation have sliced away at prices in the UK with consumers over there enjoying the lowest price differences in Europe.

With volume sales falling 3.6 % over the period, the steeper value decline has been driven by price cuts as bread is used as a key weapon in the ongoing price war.

That this House: (1) notes with concern the impact on the Dairy Industry of the Coles milk pricing strategy and that: (a) dairy farmers around the country are today seriously questioning their future having suffered through one of the worst decades in memory including droughts, floods, price cuts and rising cost of inputs such as energy and feed; (b) unsustainable retail milk prices will, over time, compel processors to renegotiate contracts with dairy farmers and the prospect that these contracts will be below the cost of production may force many to leave the industry; (c) the fact that supermarkets are now selling milk cheaper than many varieties of bottled water will be the straw that finally breaks the camel's back for many dairy farmers; and (d) the risk of other potential impacts includes: (i) decreased competition as name brands are forced from the shelves; and (ii) the possible loss of fresh milk supplies to some parts of the country as local fresh milk industries become unviable; and (2) calls on the Government to: (a) ask the ACCC to immediately examine the big supermarkets and milk wholesalers after recent price cuts to ensure they do not have too much market power and are not anti-competitive in their behaviour; and (b) support the new Senate inquiry into the ongoing milk price war between the country's major supermarket chains».

1) Ten years without a significant trophy yet the Manager is never questioned 2) Selling off key «World beater» Players season after season and replacing them with mediocre at best replacements 3) Keeping a 33 % shareholder who is one of the world's richest men AND a true football fan as far away from the board as possible 4) Charging possibly the highest prices in Europe but NOT reinvesting within the team in any really significant way 5) Classing 4th place in the EPL as a trophy 6) Boasting of a # 100 million war chest for transfers then quibbling over a few hundred thousand on deals.

This war has resulted in vastly increased policing and customs costs over the past 30 years, easily mimicked by the criminal groups supplying the demand because the price demanded is willingly paid by the consumer.

There are striking parallels between Buhari's first stint in power as military dictator and his current democratic presidency - oil prices have crashed; appointments have favoured the North; important political allies have been displaced; governance is focused almost exclusively on a war against corruption; concerns over rule of law and human rights are re-surfacing; and economic policy is floundering!

Other people aren't so creative which always works in my favour and in this case there was no real bidding war and I won it with one bid, within the price range I was willing to pay and a happily a price my hubby wouldn't commit murder over!

Although the Lincoln Navigator has been overshadowed in the bling wars by the Cadillac Escalade lately, the refreshed 2015 Navigator does have one advantage over the big Caddy: price.

2 min readThe eBook pricing war rages on, with such heavy - hitters as the Department of Justice, Amazon, Apple, and the majority of major publishers continuing to tussle over the price of eBooks.

TIER 3: Pay over $ 15 to get Tier 1 and 2 content and: Assassin's Creed # 11 - 14; Assassin's Creed: Reflections # 1 - 4; Assassin's Creed: Origins # 1; Dishonored: The Peeress and the Price # 1; The Evil Within: The Interlude # 1; Dark Souls: Winter's Spite # 1 - 4; Tekken # 1 - 2; Warhammer: Dawn of War III # 1

The debate over whether e-version intellectual property should have the same price tag as «hard copy» intellectual property wars on, but the fact is that eBooks have been downpriced since their inception, and significantly so.

Many of these comics may never be in print again, and this is your chance to get over twenty years of Star Wars comics history at a once - in - a-lifetime price.»

Amidst news of Amazon's apparent surrender today in the war with Macmillan over ebook pricing, the highlighted book on Macmillan's home page is Priceless, subtitled «The Myth of Fair Value (and How to Take Advantage of It)»:

The legal war over ebook pricing rages on but there's no need to avoid the skirmish.

This provided these companies a dramatically affordable way to incorporate touchscreen technology into e-readers that were at war with each other over lower prices.

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

Way to go Big Five I want to quote from the conclusion of the article «For authors who want control over their pricing, so they can avoid become casualties in wars between retailers and publishers, the choice of publication method is clear.

The eBook pricing war rages on, with such heavy - hitters as the Department of Justice, Amazon, Apple, and the majority of major publishers continuing to tussle over the price of eBooks.

Amazon's war with publishing giant Hachette over e-book pricing has earned it a black eye in the media, with the likes of Philip Roth, James Patterson, and Stephen Colbert demanding that the online mega... more»

Ultimately an HP Pavillion DM1Z for $ 450 is probably the heaviest competition for iPad or any tablet but if you are going to have a tablet that you want to use for any kind of productivity then this and the rest of the Honeycomb devices are going to take over once the apps start flowing and the price wars begin.

Today Amazon issued a major retaliation in the price war which Barnes & Noble started over e-Reader units just over a month ago — it announced two new and lower cost Kindle units that would begin shipping in late August and primed for the upcoming holiday season.

And when publishers have gotten into bidding wars over self - published books, prices have skyrocketed into the millions of dollars.

As more and more authors found out about, and voiced concerns over, Amazon's «bullying» tactics, Amazon tried offering to pay the authors 100 % of its sales of their books while the price war continued.

The two companies have been engaged in price wars over the eReaders, something that is risky for Barnes & Noble.

Perhaps it's easy for me to say, being out of the ebook pricing wars now (i.e., safely retired), but much of the publisher angst over ebook pricing terms to libraries strikes me as responding to problems that haven't yet materialized, and in fact may not.

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

I believe my sweet spot per - unit price (the per - unit price that, multiplied by volume, results in maximum revenues) is around five dollars, and legacy publishers won't price new digital titles that low (in fact, they went to war with Amazon over Amazon's $ 9.99 price point, which they judged too low).

Until a few years ago, there may have been a compelling cost advantage to using U.S. - listed ETFs over higher - fee Canadian equivalent ETFs but that MER differential has all but disappeared since the ETF price war hit Canadian shores early in 2014.

Without bidding wars you wouldn't have houses selling for $ 10,000 or even $ 100,000 over asking price.

Bidding wars were driving prices up far over asking, leaving Heaslip and her clients disappointed and frustrated.

In response to extreme backlash by fans over the cost of heroes in Star Wars Battlefront II, EA has quickly made adjustments to the pricing structure.