Whenever the main index of the Taiwan Stock Exchange nears 6200--widely seen as the average holding cost for government-backed funds that entered the market last year--local investors try to get out before the government-related investors begin to sell.
The president ordered the Interior Dept. in March 2011 to identify unused acreage on federal lands (it amounts to about 72% of offshore leases and 56% of all federal land in the Lower 48, according to this report) and followed up with policy changes that shortened lease terms and increased the annual holding cost to prod companies into drilling.
Holding gold cost real money then.
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"We will be unable to support any health care legislation that doesn't meet the president's goals of driving down and holding down the cost of health care, as determined by" the CBO, the letter concluded.
The Plaza Group claims in bankruptcy filings that it was undone by recent accounting rules that force private equity partnerships to write down the value of their investments in accordance with market valuations, as opposed to holding them at cost.
Interest rates are so low today that the cost of holding larger inventory is small.
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In it he writes that the cost of holding votes should be the overriding consideration.
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Low interest rates reduce the opportunity cost of holding non-yielding assets such as gold.
Real rates are now negative in developed countries, so the opportunity cost of holding gold has disappeared.
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Also, Treasury yields were creeping up, which raises the opportunity cost of holding gold since gold has no yield.
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In normal times the opportunity cost of holding non-yielding gold, instead of interest-bearing bank deposits or government bonds, is high.
But for investors to truly value the opportunity cost of holding Treasuries, Winmill expects real interest rates on 2-year Treasuries to hit 300 basis points.
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The alternative to fair value holding assets at historic cost has few admirers.
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In addition, higher short-term interest rates increase the opportunity cost of holding currency and checking accounts, and therefore will lead to an increase in the turnover or velocity of money.
Accommodative monetary policy in developed economies and an extended low-rate environment will both pump up demand for gold and reduce the opportunity cost of holding it as an investment, reads the note.
The stock sale, Goldman's sixth since 2009, completes the firm's exit from China's biggest lender ahead of new international capital rules that ratchet up the cost of holding stakes in other financial companies.
"The only reason we sell is to fuel our ability to buy, " says David's son Helly, 29, who runs a gallery in the posh Carlyle Hotel on Madison Avenue. (Helly's cousin, also named Helly Nahmad after their grandfather Hillel in the Sephardic Jewish tradition, runs a gallery in London.) And while there is a cost to holding that inventory, the family's currency business helps support their art strategy.
The cost benefits of holding down inventory levels are just too compelling.
The central bank might have issued the currency during a time of near-zero interest rates, when the cost to people of holding extra currency was nothing.
Then he made a comment to a CNBC reporter and gave a June 5 speech that made him sound much more aggressive about his views on holding down inflation by raising the cost of borrowing.
Investors are holding back and borrowers are giving up the cost advantage of commercial paper, willingly or not, to ensure that they have access to cash for years to come.
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He said the real reason Google was holding on to the data was because of the cost involved in anonymising it.
People now prefer cash to investments because holding it earns them a good return: things cost less tomorrow than they do today.
And we should point out that not holding Apple in the Russell 3000 Value index had cost that benchmark 349 basis points of performance versus the Russell 3000 Growth index.
Mr Harper points out that Canada is holding back-to-back summits doubling the cost, he says.
For private individuals, holding investment-grade gold in secure, professional vaults can cost you just a fraction of a per cent each year.
Developing 50 (just a made up number) models, having production lines producing 50 models, holding stocks of all the parts required for 50 models, will cost more than a smaller lineup.
Those rising prices have put cost pressure on both consumers and companies, and are currently holding back the domestic economic recovery.
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So she is holding the property so that her heirs will get a step up in cost basis on her death and owe no tax.
At present, these younger Medicare beneficiaries cost less than older beneficiaries but pay the same premiums, thereby holding down premiums for everyone else.
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