Sentences with phrase «year because of the price»

Of course, we all know that in reality, the steep price won't matter and people will probably buy even more of these phones this year because of the price itself.

Not exact matches

It has been on an upward price track for years, in part because the Chinese — compelled by the lack of a social safety net to save rigorously for things like higher education and in case of illness — have few other investing vehicles with which to protect their savings from the ravages of inflation.

The sector is further along the cyclical timeline than oil, because its own price fall happened five years ago instead of two.

The decline is noteworthy because you'd think the stars were aligned for a boom in the construction of dream homes: the economy has been churning out jobs steadily for a year, real - estate prices are high, and interest rates are low.

American Airlines stock drops after the company trims its full - year outlook because of higher fuel prices.

Dube began to see that cutting just $ 1 or $ 2 from the price of each item could increase the company's overall margins significantly, because it purchases thousands of items from vendors every year.

In fact, the comments section of the above mentioned article has many stories of people who did sell in past years because they thought house prices were too high, only to subsequently watch from the sidelines as prices continued to march upward.

Along Colorado's Front Range, fourth - generation farmer Kent Peppler said he is fallowing some of his corn fields this year because he can't afford to irrigate the land for the full growing season, in part because deep - pocketed energy companies have driven up the price of water.

Last year Banks made an operating profit of 18 million pounds ($ 22 million), down from 27 million pounds the previous year because of a fall in the coal prices.

In fact, in the 10 years previous to the January 2011 cut - off of the graph, Canadian light oil sold (in Edmonton) at a $ 2 per barrel premium to the average cost of U.S. Saudi Light oil imports because of our access to premium - priced markets in the mid-continent.

The IRS launched the investigation in part because the price of bitcoin soared from $ 13 to over $ 1,100 during the years in question, and because only 802 people reported their bitcoin gains or losses in 2015 to the agency.

Bombardier said it turned over the Delta sales contract but can not accurately estimate the cost and price of those planes because they are being built and delivered in coming years.

Timmer: Yeah, so last August which was a key inflection point for the market — because at that point, nobody was expecting tax cuts anymore and the 10 - year Treasury had fallen to 2 %, and the bond market which of course is always pricing in the potential future, was pricing in only one more rate hike over the subsequent two years.

Industrial goods manufactuer Precision Castparts saw its stock tank this year because of low oil prices, Fortune's Geoff Colvin reported.

Thanks to a slowdown in China and other emerging markets, but also because of a sluggish U.S. economy and political risks in the Middle East, Madani thinks oil prices could fall to $ 75 a barrel next year.

Crude - by - rail shipments are expected to ramp up in the second half of this year and into the first half of next year to «very material volumes of oil,» Pourbaix said, adding price discounts will improve but will likely remain higher than usual because rail costs more than pipeline transport.

He predicts that because of lower energy prices, our dollar will fall to around $ 0.90 next year.

Because PE is a measure of earnings over time, you can think of it as representing the number of years required to pay back a stock's purchase price (ignoring inflation, earnings growth and the time value of money).

This year's Fortune 500 generated a total of $ 944.5 billion in earnings, which are down 12.6 % from last year's record of $ 1.08 trillion, in large part because tumbling oil prices took a toll on the majority of the companies on the list.

This week, Germany's business pages have been full of little warnings about the Return of Inflation, the biggest bogeyman in the Teutonic economic lexicon, all because the annual consumer price index rose to its highest level in over three years in December, a shocking 1.7 %.

State and federal prosecutors often begin investigations because of consumer and whistleblower complaints, several civil and antitrust attorneys said, and gripes about rising insulin prices have been roiling the online diabetes community for the past few years.

Canada has posted some of its weakest economic growth outside of a recession over the past couple of years in part because business investment sunk along with the price of oil.

While they have higher costs than Spirit because they target business travelers and must maintain multiple types of planes, lower fuel prices in the past year have let them profitably chop their fares.

If the average customer stays with you five years before moving away or switching to another grocery store (because it's closer, has a better selection, offers lower prices, or because they've grown unhappy with your store), that customer has an LCV of $ 25,000.

Midsize companies did a better job this year than last year of controlling their medical costs, mainly because of a willingness to change the design of their health plans to obtain lower prices.

Robinson says most people invest in ICOs because of the chance to win big — bitcoin's price went from a few cents each bitcoin to $ 5,734 per bitcoin in four years.

The farm produces around 750,000 pounds of almonds a year and, apparently, because of large demand and good prices, they offer a much better marginal return than cars.

Sørensen displaced last year's No. 1, Jeff Bezos of Amazon (who's now No. 87 thanks to HBR's new methodology), in part because his company made the decision to focus almost exclusively on diabetes treatment, which has driven up the company's sales and stock price.

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).

Hoguet, who is not a millennial, went on to note that Macy's internal economists accurately predicted a number of metrics last year when crafting the company's three - year plan — such as GDP growth, inflation, employment and wages — but missed the mark on GAAP growth, and fell short on sales of general merchandise, apparel and furniture, partially because they didn't predict how much off - price retail and consumer electronics would weigh on sales.

Benjamin Graham was fond of averaging profit per share for the past seven years to balance out highs and lows in the economy because, if you attempted to measure the p / e ratio without it, you'd get a situation where profits collapse a lot faster than stock prices making the price - to - earnings ratio look obscenely high when, in fact, it was low.

GDP grew by 0.55 percent in the second quarter of the year, which, although a meager growth rate, was welcomed because it signaled Nigeria's exit from the recession that it plunged into due to the oil price crash.

The median price of a newly built home sold in April fell 4 percent compared with a year ago, according to the U.S. Census, but that is not because builders have suddenly put up cheaper homes.

On the other side of the debate, Narayana Kocherlakota, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, argued in a speech on Thursday night that the Fed should not raise rates this year because price inflation remains too low.

Also, borrowers who took out interest - only loans prior to 2015 are likely to have accumulated positive equity because of substantial price growth in recent years.

The spring homebuying season favors the seller this year because of extremely tight inventory and likely higher prices, Trulia Chief Economist Ralph McLaughlin said Tuesday.

Because of possibly rising gasoline prices, U.S. drivers are expected to spend about $ 52 billion more at the gas pump this year compared to 2016, according to GasBuddy's 2017 Fuel Price Outlook.

So let's say that Susan thinks that XYZ Company stock is going to lose value over the next year because of negative reviews and high prices.

Because of its heavy weighting in Apple ($ AAPL), which has been undergoing the healthy price correction we predicted back on November 5 of last year, the Nasdaq 100 Index (large - cap sibling of the Nasdaq Composite) has been a complete laggard in 2013.

Numbers may decrease over the next few years though, particularly in Alberta as energy firms continue to lay off staff because of the 2014 oil price decline.

Because our model focuses on quantifying the market's expectations for the future financial performance of a company as embedded in the stock price, we need a more dynamic DCF model than the traditional models that force the valuation of every stock into a 5 or 10 - year forecast horizon.

While predatory pricing technically remains illegal, it is extremely difficult to win predatory pricing claims because courts now require proof that the alleged predator would be able to raise prices and recoup its losses.405 Revising predatory pricing doctrine to reflect the economics of platform markets, where firms can sink money for years given unlimited investor backing, would require abandoning the recoupment requirement in cases of below - cost pricing by dominant platforms.

That's dampening what little inflation exists in the economy, which is troubling for the Bank of Canada because it's mandated to keep prices advancing at a rate of about 2 per cent a year.

Suppose Britain and Germany both export similar cars but their prices rise 5 % a year in Britain because of higher inflation and just 2 % in Germany.

Australian - British multinational Rio Tinto and Melbourne - based BHP, two of the world's top aluminum producers, were both upgraded to «BUY» this week by CLSA, partly in response to rising aluminum prices but also because they maintain strong balance sheets and are expected to generate favorable free cash flow (FCF) this year.

Leaving billions of dollars a year on the table because we can't get the best price for one of our major resources?

In addition to benefiting from some of the same forces that support emerging markets overall, we believe India's economy is turning the corner largely because of a two - year rout in energy prices.

Early this week I was with an Australian government representative in Beijing whom I have known for many years and he told me that iron ore prices were currently around $ 83 (I think they dropped another $ 2 last week), and that while some people in Canberra were reluctant to say it too loudly, he and others were increasingly in agreement with my lower forecast of less than $ 50 well before the end of the decade, in part because supply has come off much more slowly than predicted, but mainly because they now recognize that China's rebalancing was indeed going to be a far bigger deal for Chinese demand than sell - side research had predicted.

The well - funded dairy lobby spends a great deal of money (an estimated $ 80 to $ 100 million each year — ironically paid for by the higher prices consumers pay), persuading federal and provincial politicians that supply management «protects the family farm,» «ensures food security» and that, because these farmers are so numerous, doing anything to upset them would be political suicide.

And it's because of this progress that inflation - adjusted commodity prices have generally been trending lower for 200 years.