And customers are still looking for as cheap a monthly payment as they possibly can get.
Charlie Ledley and Jamie Mai, two investors with a penchant for finding mispriced options, reckoned that credit-default swaps on mortgage-backed bonds were just too cheap a trade to pass up.
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They were very cheap a couple of years ago.
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Why not pick up on the cheap a few of the 4, 000 distribution centers in the U.S.? Some of these wholesalers were sickly and could be had for 90 cents on the dollar of net assets.
This looks like cheap disaster insurance, or a cheap wager on a market crash.
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As luxury e-tailers have cut their prices to survive, the labels, fearing that cheap prices mean a cheap image, have fled.
This type of analysis does not adhere to strict rules, but it does play an important role in determining whether a stock is merely cheap or a bargain.
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From politicos to comedians to ordinary citizens, some offered heartfelt thoughts on the historical importance of the day, while others jockeyed for a cheap laugh and a few retweets.
Eric Kim , who made his reputation at Samsung by taking the Korean giant from a cheap copycat to a Sony competitor and is now pulling the marketing strings at Intel, studied the success of Centrino, the now ubiquitous wireless chips that were marketed heavily starting in 2003.
Eric Kim , who made his reputation at Samsung by taking the Korean giant from a cheap copycat to a Sony (nyse: SNE - news - people ) competitor and is now pulling the marketing strings at Intel, studied the success of Centrino, the now ubiquitous wireless chips that were marketed heavily starting in 2003.
If you bought a stock for its growth characteristics and the rate of growth is showing signs of slowing, that would be a cause for concern. (This would particularly be the case if it looks like internal factors had an adverse affect.) Conversely, if you bought a stock because the valuation was cheap, a merely decent (as opposed to a great) report might be acceptable.
Like the aliens browsing through refuse for weaponry and food, the film trawls for visual tactics of every kind, from news footage to clips from security cameras, and the result is something new: a startling, redoubtable thriller constructed on the cheap from a decaying world.
Facebook may have come up with a relatively cheap solution for a fairly large legal headache.
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Investing in good European parliamentary contacts, is, moreover, a relatively cheap thing for a lobbyist to do.
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All in all, a cheap yen would be a small price for Asia to pay for a speedier recovery in Japan.
Abolishing doli incapax is a cheap gesture which ignores a ten-year- old's genuine difficulty in thinking through the long-term consequences of his actions.
The 31-year-olds were both shot in the head while their killers made off with their mobile phones, a cheap digital camera and a handful of cash.
On the sidewalk during the long vacation months we played a new game called "I Declare War, " using a cheap rubber ball and a piece of chalk.
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TCL, Bird and other Chinese handset OEMs believed that if an Indian saw a cheap Chinese handset in a New Delhi shop, compared to the higher-priced Nokia and Samsung handsets, he would buy the Chinese one immediately.
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From a man who had used it to create a "smart" cat feeder able to recognise each of his cats and give them the correct amount of food, to quadcopters used to transport things from one African village to another, access to a cheap microcontroller was creating a buzz in the maker community, he said.
The boards are a little more expensive than Raspberry Pi's impressively cheap Model A and Model B, but you are getting some bang for that buck.
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With that in mind, I recently used my Validea.com Guru Strategies, each of which is based on the approach of a different investing great, to find some strong stocks that look cheap on a number of different levels.
So in a cooperative G20 kind of world, devaluing your currency to keep your exports cheap is a no-no.
This is true buying a PC in an electronics store, a washing machine in a white goods store and even was true buying an espresso maker being flogged off cheap in a supermarket.
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Why settle for a bank account when you could buy a cheap bank-on-a-chip?
To be sure of attracting them, the government might need to provide a combination of cheap loans and a guaranteed floor on losses.
Standing between Prilosec and a torrent of cheap knockoffs are a judge in lower Manhattan and a chemical coating less than 10 microns thick.
Then put this in your cool gizmos file: A cheap filter that fits over a conventional monitor or television set and displays very good 3D images.
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