Presently, McWilliams is finding a lot that he likes at the prices the recent market selloff has provided.
The weekly OBV shows a well-established downtrend, line f, as it was much weaker than prices at the recent highs.
But recent prices for southern cattle at nearby auction houses have been underwhelming, and northern ranchers have become skilled at picking out the interlopers.
One example of a company that actually did make large repurchases of shares substantially below book value in 2011 is American Capital ( NASDAQ: ACAS), which announced it bought back millions of shares of its own stock, at prices considerably below its most recent reported book value per share, thereby elevating the per-share book value of the remaining shares.
Comparable recent spectrum transactions have been at much higher prices per POP (unit of population) than either of these offers represent.
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Higher gold prices in recent years also encouraged output at higher-cost mines, Rannestad said.
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Property transactions remain at low levels and house prices have drifted down in recent months, according to various surveys.
There has been a trend in recent years of tourism authorities hiking up prices at Unesco world heritage sites in China.
Mr. MacMillan agrees but notes that prices for mink opened lower than expected at the recent Copenhagen auction, the first of the season.
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Baronoff also touched upon a phenomenon that a lot of dealmakers have complained about in recent years: the dearth of quality targets at attractive prices.
Yet stock prices even after the recent declines are still selling at almost double the 2009 lows.
Inflation currently is at least 3%, and that is before the recent pop in gasoline prices.
The recent bounce in the prices of bank stocks and gold has, at least for the time being, stopped the bleeding.
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The Canadian company has built a billion-dollar business selling premium yoga gear at high prices, but the glitch with the recalled pants marks yet another recent stumble with products on its store shelves.
"Gold seems inexpensive at the moment considering all the economic problems in other countries, " said Kanchana Panyaphoo, a noodle vendor who was inspecting gold prices at a jewelry store in Bangkok's crowded Chinatown one recent morning and says she bought some three years ago.
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Aside from the recent housing bubble and subsequent collapse, over time home prices have risen at about the same rate of inflation, the financial equivalent of treading water.
While the works of masters such as Rembrandt, Van Gogh and Picasso have fetched hundreds of millions of dollars at both auction and private sales in recent years, living artists are increasingly commanding higher and higher prices too.
But the decision also highlights the recent trend of financial institutions raising quick capital through the sale of equity stakes, likely at depressed prices.
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Labor costs have risen at a rate higher than inflation in recent years, and electrical shortages have resulted in jumps in power prices for mining companies.
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However, other wine growers around the world produce their own variants -- often available at cheaper prices -- which have placed the Champagne region's wine houses under increasing pressure in recent years.
Alienware's Area-51 7500 series of desktops can reach some pretty lofty prices, but the folks at Computer Shopper recently got their hands on one of the company's recent, more modestly-priced configurations, and they've awarded it some considerably higher marks than its pricer predecessors.
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