About one in six parents had already started shopping for back-to-school gear for their kids by early July, with many looking to take advantage of price specials.
The euro should spur price convergence not so much because consumers shop across borders, but because greater price transparency encourages wholesalers to take advantage of price discrepancies.
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However, because higher prices create greater uncertainty, it is important to have tools in place to help manage this risk and take advantage of price peaks during the shorter intervals.
Already Jenkins has been doing some basic (by gas or electricity standards) arbitrage plays such as contracting for capacity at known chokepoints in the national telecommunications grid to take advantage of price spikes, as well as selling short in areas with a looming glut.
Considering the final Potter film will have the advantage of ticket price hiking 3-D, it could earn even more.
The rush was on to take advantage of this price arbitrage that provided almost monopolistic prices, and only marginal costs of production.
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Holders of mutual funds lose out from such activities in dribs and drabs, since they are not able to take advantage of these price discrepancies.
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This week, as banks and other big investors were panic selling, his customers were taking advantage of the price dip to buy more.
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Now it would have the additional advantage of removing price pressures through lower import prices and freeing the central bank to pursue anti-inflationary monetary policies.
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The M100 took advantage of the price pullback to build positions.
Brad Wurtz, CEO of Power Assure, an energy and data structure infrastructure management vendor, foresees a day when data centers move workloads around the country to take advantage of energy price differences between regions.
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In the press release, the company explained it managed to increase sales volume in both their machinery and engine divisions, as took advantage of favorable price realization, as developing economies, where recessions were less severe, took deliveries to record highs.
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Market timing is the rapid trading of mutual-fund shares in order to take advantage of the gap between the price of a fund, which is set once a day, and the continuous changes in the value of the underlying portfolio of securities.
We buy lots of tuna fish to take advantage of the low price.
Despite the slow sales of battery-powered cars, the head-start they have over fuel-cell cars gives them a definitive advantage in terms of price.
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It would be true of putting Royal Mail on a path to privatisation with the postal service's decision to take advantage of new freedoms to significantly increase the price of stamps.
The lawsuit against Credit Suisse and others sketches a similar conspiracy, in which securities firms--with the help of big institutional customers including Fidelity and Janus Capital--are accused of taking advantage of Internet fever to drive up the price of newly issued shares in the aftermarket.
The lawsuit against Credit Suisse and others sketches a similar conspiracy, in which securities firms--with the help of big institutional customers including Fidelity and Janus Capital (nyse: JNS - news - people )--are accused of taking advantage of Internet fever to drive up the price of newly issued shares in the aftermarket.
Moreover, the price advantage of natural gas over gasoline shrinks as cars become more fuel-efficient.
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Instead, they are designed to take advantage of variations in the price of electricity.
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Finally, the price advantage of Android devices versus iPads is even more attractive than a year ago.
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So it seems that, on average, companies are able to time the market by taking advantage of an undervalued share price.
Miners are pushing hard to increase their copper output in order to take advantage of the current market price, which is still relatively high.
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Special Offer: Take advantage of pullbacks in the price of crude.
Romania, for example, whose currency dropped 20% last year, has seen a big rise in labour costs wipe out much of its price advantage.
Price targets take advantage of confirmation bias people grab information that confirms what they already believe.
And governments and companies will probably take advantage of any drop in the oil price to build up stocks, thereby putting upward pressure on the price.
The additional nuclear power plants would also have the advantage of being less vulnerable to fuel price changes than coal or gas-fired generation, helping to enhance the security of electricity supplies.
The office then launched its investigation, comparing gas prices before and after the crisis under the state's Price Gouging Law, which prohibits merchants from taking unfair advantage of consumers by selling goods or services for an "unconscionably excessive price" during disasters.
"And what's happened here is a lot of those first-time homebuyers that were excluded from the market because of the price range are now in the market and taking advantage of the tax credit, " which the Obama administration ushered in in February.
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