Market makers, just like any wholesaler or retailer, incur inventory holding costs.
Its sales rise slowly (foreign growth offsetting sluggish conditions in the U.S.), but by holding costs down its profits rise a little more swiftly.
This form of competition does nothing to serve the general interest in holding down costs, inefficiency and waste in the delivery of medical care.
The advice is almost pure Bogleism a religious doctrine holding that costs matter a lot and that most savers would be better off passively tracking the market than trying to beat it.
Mitsubishi, which has more experience than DaimlerChrysler with small cars, should be better at holding down costs, and the alliance should also help to bring the Smart to Asia, a market that may suit it well.
Purcell acknowledged at an investor presentation in January that share growth and other performance measures had lagged those of peer companies in the last year, and he promised to devote more attention to holding down costs and developing high-growth businesses.
Frightened money has been emigrating to our shores, and in the process that flow has been holding American borrowing costs down.
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Speaking to the Today programme's John Humphrys, he explained that the reforms are "about holding back on the costs".
Thanks to a booming stockmarket, firms have been able to reduce their contributions to pension plans, thereby holding down employee benefit costs.
Reiner points out that investors and their advisers need to look at total transactions, transaction costs and holding period as they relate to expense ratios and performance differences.
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International regulations known as Basel III will increase the costs of holding minority stakes in financial institutions, forcing big banks to set aside more capital in order to maintain regulators' key measures of balance-sheet strength.
And, by the way, just from a purely fiscal point of view, the costs of holding folks in Guantanamo is massively higher than it is holding them in a super maximum security prison here in the United States.
He has been willing to take small steps, he says, as long as they move toward a larger goal of covering more people and holding down health-care costs.
The market seems to get a boost from earnings season every time around, with corporations holding onto cash and cutting costs rather than hiring aggressively in this uncertain environment.
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This was that they could make strenuous efforts to qualify for the euro, slashing public spending and holding down wages and other costs, and then relax as soon as they got in.
The president expects the Senate to have begun work by then on a national health plan that expands coverage while holding down rising health-care costs.
Chrysler Group, which will retain its obligations for pensions and healthcare costs and be renamed Chrysler Holding.
The CFO of a fast-growing company told me they are holding off on hiring until the true costs of the Affordable Care Act are known.
The proposal also would not add to the federal deficit in the next 10 years while holding down the rise in health care costs, Obama said.
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State regulators around the country are holding hearings to determine what the actual costs are to RBOCs and to set a price in each state that RBOCs are allowed to charge.
That isn't an auspicious start for a government that isn't much more than a month old and that made its own important contribution to increasing the costs of the rescue by holding out for a better deal before taking one that deeply hurt depositors in its top banks.
It allows a handful of smart people with T-1 connections to skim off the real value proposition and leave the large incumbents holding the bag of commodity assets and sunk costs.
But many business people say they are holding only enough local currency to cover their immediate operating costs.
It said holding cases in civil courts instead of tribunals meant potentially higher costs for the losing party.
Nonfinancial companies, which cut costs and increased productivity during the recession, are now holding record levels of cash, and dividend payouts are one way they could use that cash.
Having deliberately ignored the issue of entitlement costs in its 2012 Budget, the Obama Administration is holding its breath to see if the Republicans will fall into the trap and propose unpopular changes to Social Security.
"Today's news reinforces the view that the US consumer is holding out well, with US businesses and producers bearing the brunt of rising costs, " said the Centre for Economics and Business Research in London.
Mattress Firm Holding (MFRM) announced that income in the fourth quarter fell sharply on acquisition related costs.
The U.S. has a large pool of available labor, abundant raw materials and falling energy costs, said Paul van Eeden, president of Cranberry Capital, a private Canadian holding company.
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