Access Industries had borrowed about 80% of the cost of buying Basell, and Basell had borrowed 100% of the cost of buying Lyondell.
Compared to the cost of buying, the current cost of renting is quite low in most areas.
Not surprisingly, the least sophisticated investors are buying higher cost mutual funds which sport the highest management fees and sales commissions.
Some were also buying ahead of cost increases that are coming from the apparel makers.
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They may never disappear as long as people are buying and the cost per acquisition is lower than the cost of printing and mailing.
You would be hard-pressed to beat that cost buying directly.
But with Congressional Republicans attempting to bar the military from buying biofuels that cost more than petroleum, the industry has been forced to fight to preserve the status quo rather than focus on the future.
Think of EV as the total cost of buying the company, including its debt and leftover cash, which would offset the cost.
This estimate includes the time it takes people to delete the messages, the cost of buying larger mail servers and storage systems to cope with inboxes flooded with the messages and the cost of having staff unclog networks overloaded by spam.
Given the competition, the cost of buying licensing rights from tournament organizers is climbing, too.
First, the relative cost of buying a house has fallen quite dramatically in the north.
The school no doubt would have been better off simply buying a low-cost ETF from Vanguard.
They'll be about the cost of buying the songs that make up a whole album online.
The cost of buying groceries in Jersey and Guernsey is to be investigated by the competition authority.
The cost of buying insurance against default by GM increased by 10% in the credit-default swaps market.
The cost of buying a second-hand Treasury at Fidelity is half the spread between bid and ask prices.
Ken: Aside from the cost of buying the options, are there other costs?
About half of new account holders are buying into low-cost plans available directly from such operators as TIAA-CREF , Vanguard and Fidelity.
"You're speculating on housing prices and included in that speculation is the cost of buying and selling, which can be substantial, " he says.
"We got a few theses out of it, " Williams say, noting that the trick saved him the cost of buying a new minicomputer.
Coldwell Banker Real Estate surveys the cost of buying homes in towns where colleges and universities are located, 120 of them this year.
This will be a version of the current CPI index, but adjusted to measure changes in the cost of buying and owning a home.
You will pay us maintenance that will amount to a fraction of the cost of buying what we offer from vendors or building it yourself.
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Right now, the cost of buying servers is the largest data center expense, and power comes second, accounting for around 40 percent of operational costs.
The most expensive part of making a screen 3-D ready is the cost of buying digital projectors which will be covered by the DCIP financing.
"You are buying the low-cost producer with best-in-class management, " says Aslam.
Because of the relatively high cost of buying into Kinect if one is completely new to Xbox 360, I have doubts about whether it can.
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Even though the cost of buying a home has leveled out in many places, it remains so high that it's out of reach for many people.
For consumers who value pennies over points the legislation should result in a nice cut in the cost of buying everything from ice cream to iPads.
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Although building up an atlas collection is much more expensive, he adds that it the cost of buying beautiful, historically important maps is not necessarily eye watering.
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