Stocks are trading higher on pure technical momentum, not because of cheap fundamentals.
But the first two industries started withering away because of cheap foreign manufacturers, and NCNB faced a bleak future confined to North Carolina.
BP's return on investment in exploration and production could increase to 18.6% next year from 13.6% in 1999, mostly because of cheap reserves, says Terreson.
Many donor countries support REDD because of the cheap carbon credits that they will receive.
Or, are oil prices artificially kept high because of a cheap dollar, hedge fund speculation, and political chokeholds on supply?
The value-oriented Buckingham has been bullish for the past five years on nearly a dozen builders because of their cheap valuations and strong earnings growth.
In the past, Asian outfits didn't see the benefits of a New York listing because there was plenty of cheap capital at home.
As we stated in the America's Report a number of times, Kirchner was an ally of Chavez not only because Chavez provided cheap oil to Argentina and bought part of its debt but also because Kirchner's Peronist party's historical populism finds affinity with Chavez and his style.
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There are subsectors like tobacco and HMOs that remain cheap because of residual fears of litigation and legislation.
This leads to a significant drop in sales for that drug because of the entry of cheap generic versions and a drop in average selling price of the drug.
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There has been significant progress in development in a number of African countries in recent years, mainly because of big investments from China, cheap anti-retroviral drugs, increased aid and the cancellation of debt which enabled better spending in schools and health care systems.
And despite what sound like large investments in new oil fields in Russia and elsewhere, Saudi Arabia's share of the world oil market will actually grow over the next two decades simply because it has such huge reserves of cheap oil.
Christian Aid says there are many cases where fledgling African industries are drowned by cheap imports because of enforced liberalisation.
He seems to like the NHS the way it is, not just because of its true Labour heritage, but because it is cheap.
The report says the global economic crisis is boosting the demand for human trafficking because of a growing demand for cheap goods and services.
Either the Chinese goods they do buy are more expensive or the not-Chinese goods they buy instead are more expensive because of the absence of the cheap Chinese goods.
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It got papered over because there was a lot of cheap credit out there so people were just able to keep up by getting more credit cards and taking out more home equity loans, but the long-term trends were not good.
And then when you add on top of that that we have seen in microcosm as they come out of this rescue the American taxpayer-provided safety net support, and you've seen these -- some of these financial institutions get -- using the cheap money they can get because of that safety net to do proprietary trading for their own profits, not for any client.
Costs matter because they can handicap performance of a fund, but the quality of holdings is paramount because no matter how cheap the fund, the performance will be bad if the holdings are bad.
Partly, cheques have endured because they are a cheap form of documentary evidence of a transaction.
Money is cheap in part because of the Federal Reserve's unprecedented policy of holding short-term rates close to zero.
It was renowned as the perfect commodity company because of its brutal efficiency at producing cheap paper from recycled scrap.
Of course, just because something is cheap doesn't mean it's a good investment.
"We're not putting plants in Asia because we want to take advantage of the cheap labor costs, " explains Peter, though he does note that almost every scientist in his Textile Effects lab is a woman with an advanced degree.
Evidence of how these entities have performed is muddy because so much of their environment is distorted: for example, given cheap enough money and strong enough protection for their franchise, even corporate sluggards can show good profits and return on equity.
But if money remains cheap, it is mainly because of worries about deflation.
As we often note in such a circumstance, the company is not really required to devote any amount of resources to buy back shares, but if it feels it is in the best interest of shareholders (because the stock is too cheap) Kellogg has the ability to support its stock.
Some of his targets are cheap in part because nobody on Wall Street covers them.
They ate tacos because they were cheap, and that really sort of helped to transport them around the world.
Retailers also want to work with RSI because of pressure from Amazon.com, which offers cheap prices, says Retail Solutions CEO Jonathan Golovin.
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