Driving the reduction in hedge fund short trading is the escalating cost of selling stock short in the last few years.
They haven't compared the cost of selling a product on the Internet with that of selling it in the traditional retail outlet.
The rise in the dollar price reflects, among other things, an attempt to claw back some of the increased cost of selling in that currency.
In November, the bank reported a third quarter loss of 2.85bn euros for the July to September period, mainly due to the cost of selling its Greek operation Emporiki.
In France, Italy, Spain and Belgium the cost of selling one house and buying another (estate-agent fees, stamp duty and legal fees) often amounts to more than 15% of the price of a home.
"You're speculating on housing prices and included in that speculation is the cost of buying and selling, which can be substantial, " he says.
The cost of mis-selling Payment Protection Insurance, in common with other high street banks, continued to burn a large hole in the accounts.
Be it pig roasts or text messages, you still have to make or sell something enough people want at a price that exceeds the cost of making or selling it to them.
The state government initially planned to offset the cost of the event by selling media access.
Because premiums were high, we looked to offset some of the cost of this protection by selling some insurance.
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He could have covered the cost by selling 10% of his shares.
Chinese telcos, especially China Unicom first came out with the strategy of selling low cost smartphones to attract more 3G subscribers. 3G subscribers are typically heavy data users and help China Unicom in increasing its average revenue per user.
The advantage of the residential approach is that selling the apartments up front covers the cost of the ship's construction.
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One of the world's lowest-cost producers of vaccines, Serum produces a billion doses a year selling in 140 countries, excluding North America, Australia and the EU. It is the world's biggest maker of measles and DTP vaccines.
Since we have an income tax, not a gross receipts tax, you get to deduct your cost of goods sold, if you are selling illegal drugs.
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As for pricing, it just so happens that the premium you collect for the three out-of-the-money calls you are selling would be just a little more than the cost of buying two at-the-money calls.
He said the situation also made it difficult for banks to understand the cost of the services they provide, which may have contributed to the mis-selling of financial products.
Of course, if accountants are barred from selling other services to their audit clients, then the cost of audits may well go up.
DeFontes said the owner was selling partly because of the cost of insurance and security.
The higher cost of insurance comes as the euro recovered a bit after a more than a week of selling pressure.
As his career took him around the world, he discovered youth entrepreneurs like a 19-year-old in Kenya who is bottling water and selling it at half the cost of importers, giving access to drinking water to more people than ever.
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To many Russians, the idea of selling something for less than it cost seemed absurd but irresistible.
But the economics of selling enough ads to offset the cost of video streaming in China are daunting, and not only for Baidu.
It looks like the investors are preparing for shares to continue lower by essentially selling call options to offset the cost of debit put spreads.
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The transfers will continue until the Bank has raised its own cost of borrowing above the level of interest it is receiving on its gilts, or starts to make losses selling them back to the market, probably for less than they bought them for.
In this strategy, called a zero-cost collar, your costs are limited to your transaction costs alone, since your proceeds from selling the calls will zero out the cost of the puts.
Bristol-Myers Squibb was handed a defeat in a patent lawsuit, which will allow generic drugmaker Mylan Laboratories (nyse: MYL - news - people) to make a lower-cost version of BuSpar, Bristol's fifth best-selling drug.
Personal selling in general is expensive because of the cost of recruiting, training and motivating staff.
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