The bank later had someone else raise the value of the land and lower the value of the house.
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Consider ways of redirecting some of the lower-value items in your budget to community or social activities.
But for makers of bulky lower-value goods such as furniture, toys and machinery, the ability to hedge shipping costs should prove a boon.
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There are broadly three issues: income, vulnerability to a rise in interest rates (which cuts the value of lower-yielding bonds) and exposure to erosion by inflation (which reduces the value of both income and capital).
"As American consumers, we're conditioned to seek products of value at lower prices, " says Wukong.
We believe that Disney has superior pricing power to News Corp and therefore our margin forecast for News Corp stands at a lower value of around 40%.
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These findings are generally consistent with an analysis by ICF International, which evaluated the impact of a 30% ITC for CHP projects with overall efficiencies of 70% lower heating value or greater.
If you left the painting to your nephew, he might prefer a higher value, but if your estate is taxable, the rest of your heirs will want a lower value.
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In other words, because of the European-style exercise and the mean-reversion of volatility, VIX options will often trade at lower value than what seems appropriate during periods of high volatility (and vice versa in low volatility periods), particularly early on in the term of the option.
His latest pronouncement concerned Justice Department laxity in persecuting bank fraud and how this must lower the value of bank equity because of public distrust.
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In fact, since going public in April 2011, the security has shed about two-thirds of its value, pressured lower beneath its 10-week and 20-week moving averages.
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The fisrt is, as JP Morgan points out, that lowering the income from a stock will, other things being equal, lower the value of that stock.
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However, there is a good side to having the dollar stores and Walmarts as indirect competitors since they lower the value of brand names with their cheap prices.
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According to market analysts Felix Zulauf and Louis Gave, the ECB will eventually capitulate and begin printing more money to lower the value of the Euro in order to gain competitiveness.
Lew will also need to calm investors who have grown concerned about possible currency wars after Japan's new government sought to lower the value of the yen as a way to boost exports and its weak economy.
The EFSF is such a handy device that this week has also seen renewed talk about its lending money to Greece so that the government there can buy back its bonds at today's depressed prices, which would lower the nominal value of its towering debt.
Transaction value (which is not at all the same as GDP, transaction value will be vastly larger than GDP) is much lower for Bitcoin than the outstanding value of the currency is.
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Farren-Bradley says between 5-10% of its fair market value and she suggests that the lower end of that range is the most likely because all the buyer can hope to gain out of a stolen art purchase is a higher resale.
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He still commands the loyalty of about a quarter of the DPJ's 289 lower-house MPs, which gives him plenty of nuisance value.
The discount is the gap between the net aggregate value of investments and the lower valuation placed on the investment trust itself.
Also, some Brazilian states (3 of 27) charge a lower VAT (Value Added Tax) on hydrous ethanol sold to Flex-Fuel cars compared to VAT imposed on gasoline at the pump.
The short sale process is time-consuming and complicated: For the sale to go through, the mortgage lender must agree to accept a sale price lower than the outstanding value of the mortgage.
Nobel laureate Gary S. Becker argued that when the labor specialization in a marriage decreases--if, for example, both spouses have careers--the overall value of the marriage is lower for both partners because less of the total needed work is getting done, making life harder for both partners and divorce more likely.
The value of the lifetime limit of lower rate capital gains will erode over time - will it be indexed in some way?
But the estate's charitable deduction for the remainder of the art gift is based on the lower value at the time the fractional gift began.
Soon it will be colleges day of reckoning as they have to balance the reality of high costs, debt burden and lower degree value.
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One is left to wonder about the value of offering products at a lower price if those products are not on the shelves when the customer needs to buy them?
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