It has successfully headed off the price-driven, short-term conversations that the market is driving.
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Another strategy is to add value to what would otherwise be a purely price-driven commodity purchase.
According to Sable, while price is important in a recession, the majority of price-driven consumers still factor in the importance of branding.
Another strategy is to add value to an otherwise price-driven commodity purchase.
The one place I have seen dentistry price-driven is in the dentist-filled towns in Mexico, just south of the U.S. border, where snowbirds flock to have budget work done.
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Furthermore, while much of the recent oil-price increase was demand-driven, and thus expected to have relatively benign economic effects, any sizeable outages owing to Katrina could cause a supply shock similar to those that repeatedly battered the world economy in the 1970s.
Will they train more consumers to become, as my family was so many years ago, hyper price-conscious, deal-driven and not remotely brand loyal?
In Australia, where the house-price boom has been driven by the buy-to-let market, investors now account for 45% of all new mortgage lending.
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When interest rates are allowed to float free of central bank intervention, the happy consequence of such a market-driven price is that in reaching natural levels conceived in the marketplace, the supply of and demand for credit is equalized.
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"The situation in Greece has taken a turn for the worse, with the economy increasingly adjusting through recession and related wage-price channels, rather than through structural reform-driven increases in productivity".
The price-earnings ratio is primarily driven by stock prices, although earnings also respond to changing business conditions.
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The North American natural gas market has been driven by price-induced responses, said analysts at Goldman Sachs, but it is slowly transitioning to policy-induced changes.
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Through quantitative easing and regulations that require banks to hold government bonds in liquidity pools, they have created price-insensitive buyers that have driven yields down.
The shuttering of various European and U.S. northeast refinery operations of late due to unfavorable margins and a difficult lending environment could also eventually lead to supply-constraint driven gasoline price spikes when demand starts to pick up again towards the summer peak driving season period, say analysts.
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The recovery in profits has driven down the historic price-earnings ratio on most markets.
The mortgage market is still young: a startling aspect of Moscow's wild property-price boom is how little it is driven by mortgages.
Competition between political parties at elections in offering ever-bigger subsidies has driven down the price of electricity to absurd levels (it is free for farmers in some states).
The increased price of fixed-rate home loans since then has been driven by the increasing cost of borrowing the funds on the financial markets.
Energy prices, led by a 13% rise this year in the price of oil, have hit new post-recession highs, also driven by the global recovery, as well as the oil cartel Opec's apparent unwillingness to increase supply.
But the fact is that for years the supermarkets - driven no doubt by their customers - have been squeezing the price of milk.
And the dissolution of these containers is the key that unlocks the IT dungeon and lets CEOs and CIOs begin to dismantle the sprawl of servers and networks and databases and middleware and workarounds and expensive integration requirements that, until very recently, were believed to be the inexorable price to be paid for life in our modern, mobile, and consumer-driven world.
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In India, where patent laws are different, ciprofloxacin costs one-thirtieth of what it does in the U.S.--competition between all the companies making the drug has driven down the price.
The segment has witnessed nearly 7-8% revenue growth over the last couple of years driven equally by price and volume improvements.
Revenue from our media and entertainment customers grew 15% year-over-year and declined 4% sequentially in the first quarter, driven by contract renewals at lower price points from some of our largest media customers.
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