Sentences with phrase «year cut price»

Subaru sells 600 to 800 Bajas a month, even though last year it cut the price by $ 2,000 and added a turbocharged performance model.

Both could land two year cut price contracts which could see them coming close to ending their careers at the Boleyn.

Not exact matches

Combine that with a sparkling balance sheet and its history of never cutting its dividend — the yield is now 2.5 % — and its beaten - down share price (down by a third over the past two years) looks like an opportunity to pick up a high - quality bargain.

April 30 - Strong compliance with OPEC - led production cuts, robust demand and supply disruptions in the Middle East are likely to lift oil's average price this year to above $ 67 a barrel, a Reuters poll showed on Monday.

And cutting its plan to four films per month will probably make new customer acquisition a lot harder for MoviePass, which has grown massively since dropping its price last year.

Starting in January of last year and due to continue throughout 2018, OPEC and 10 other producers agreed to production cuts to overcome a glut and push up prices.

The Bank of Canada said nothing in public about the possible merits of deficit spending as it twice cut its benchmark interest rate last year to offset the collapse of oil prices.

They were the first to see that the plunge in crude prices last year heralded serious trouble — hence the January interest - rate cut.

Royal Dutch / Shell and BP on Tuesday joined peers in reporting higher than expected earnings by making further deep cuts in spending to cope with an oil price downturn now in its third year.

Oil and gas firms worldwide have cut their share in investment given the subdued market prices in the last few years.

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.

Gravity was inundated with résumés — 4,500 in the first week alone — including one from a high - powered 52 - year - old Yahoo executive named Tammi Kroll, who was so inspired by Price that she quit her job and in September went to work for Gravity at what she insisted would be an 80 - 85 percent pay cut.

This company made waves with price cuts that took on cloud market leader Amazon (AMZN) Web Services last year.

It looks like next year might be a good time to cut the carbohydrates as a drought - fueled jump in wheat costs will make bakery goods the food items with the biggest price gains for U.S. consumers.

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.

Some meat suppliers are concerned that Chinese buyers could suddenly balk at the record - high prices for secondary lamb cuts, as British importers did a few years ago after prime lamb prices soared.

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.

But Wood Mackenzie speculates that investors might not remain so stubborn with U.S. crude prices at three - year highs above $ 60 and a corporate tax cut windfall on the horizon.

Dunkin' previously cut its outlook for the year in July, due to increased competition from fast - food rivals and the negative impact of high milk prices on Baskin - Robbins profits.

Still, Sal Guatieri, a senior BMO economist, wrote last week that «in no way are family incomes growing fast enough to justify the rampant price moves,» nor can it be explained by a sudden spike in mortgage lending, which was given a boost by the Bank of Canada's two rate cuts last year.

Failure of prices to recover raises the prospect of even deeper cuts to investment by oil and gas companies next year and would likely result in Canada's economy remaining on a slower growth path than the 2.2 per cent pace we are expecting.»

A new Olshan Realty report found that homes with prices of $ 4 million or more that went into contract during the year's first 12 weeks took an average price cut of 10 percent, the highest going back to at least 2012, according to Bloomberg.

The main price driver has been an OPEC - led supply cut from major oil - producing group OPEC, which started to withhold output in January last year.

By 2013, they had fallen to $ 1.46 billion, despite the company's efforts to steady the business in the last couple of years through steps such as improving reps» cut of the action, and streamlining its product assortment to focus on lower - priced products.

Second, that Saudi Arabia, the driving force within OPEC and the shock absorber in oil markets for the past 40 years, would cut production if necessary to keep prices from falling too low.

Fortune reported that Uber cut prices in New York City by 15 % earlier this year.

Amazon is aggressive with price cuts and innovation, which will probably keep competitors like Microsoft from catching up for years, Leong said.

As General Cable's stock price plummeted last year, the company announced job cuts for 7 % of its workforce as part of an ongoing restructuring.

Toys have been a trouble spot for retailers over the past few years, as extreme price competition, the lack of a must - have toy and the popularity of mobile gaming have cut into profits.

T - Mobile (tmus) has been the fastest - growing U.S. wireless carrier for the past few years thanks to Legere's populist bent and a bevy of price cuts and new features.

The capacity cuts are contributing to higher metals prices, with the S&P GSCI Industrial Metals Index having gained more than 24 percent year - to - date.

And since March, when it became obvious Andy Charles would be setting up shop here later this year, a flood of new products and price cuts has appeared.

Sony (SNE) is cutting the price of its PlayStation 4 videogame console to around $ 350 from $ 400 to boost sales ahead of the year - end holiday season.

T - Mobile accounted for nearly all of the subscriber growth in wireless over the past few years, and the other carriers are cutting prices and adding promotional offers to catch up.

It has raised its target for the overnight rate three times in the past year after cutting it in response to a drop in oil prices.

Halliburton, which tried to buy Baker Hughes over a year ago but was blocked by regulators, has embarked on steep cost cuts as it expects price pressures to continue.

Sinking crude prices hit oilfield services provider Baker Hughes early this year, and it subsequently cut 7,000 employees from its payroll.

Iran is looking to increase production even more by the end of the year, so any supply cut will have to be significant to really impact oil price.

Oil prices collapsed on Thursday to their lowest since late November as investor worries about the world's stubbornly persistent glut of crude erased most of the gains that followed last year's OPEC's output cut.

The world's biggest miner BHP Billiton reported a 25 percent rise in underlying half - year profit on Tuesday, helped by robust metals prices, and said its focus remains on cutting debt and boosting shareholder returns.

Poloz's bold and unexpected move to cut rates this year — not once, but twice — has been credited for dampening the impact of the sharp drop in global oil prices on the Canadian economy.

Kolko's analysis found that job cuts in oil - rich cities don't typically happen until about six months after energy prices tank, and property values don't fall until one or two years after that.

Mizuho Securities's Abhey Lamba Sunday issued a note to clients cutting his rating on Apple (AAPL) shares to Neutral from Buy, and cut his price target to $ 150 from $ 160, after deciding the stock's run - up this year has «fully captured» the enthusiasm about the next iPhone, especially as pricing above $ 1,000 may not help stimulate new user demand.

Recent lower oil prices have helped Morocco cut those costs and shrink its budget deficit from nearly 5 percent of gross domestic product in 2014 to 4.3 percent this year.

This scenario was part of our thinking at the beginning of last year, when Canada's economy was hit by the collapse in oil prices and we cut our policy interest rate.

An uptick in commodity prices, combined with two years of supply cost cuts, created some room to get financial houses in order and invest in production growth in 2017.

While the province's five - year - old carbon tax means BC residents pay higher pump prices, offsetting cuts to their personal income tax have left them with the lowest tax rates in the country.

Dismal prices over the last couple of years compelled explorers and producers to cut activity and other capital expenditures, while demand continues to rise.

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.

They've come a long way in a short time: it was just over four years ago, April 2, 1993 to be precise, when Philip Morris cut the price of Marlboro cigarettes by 40 cents a pack.