On the other hand, very little of that commodity cost seems to be getting into final goods prices.
Our plans call for the fourth quarter to show the highest earnings growth of the year, with increasing contributions from pricing actions we have taken to partially offset significant commodity cost increases.
Kraft Foods posted first quarter earnings after the bell on Thursday with a decent earnings beat on a stellar performance in emerging markets, but was forced to lower full year guidance on commodity cost inflation concerns.
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As the cost consumers pay for goods remains subdued but input costs rise, pushed by commodity-cost inflation, input-price inflation has the potential to hit margins and thus profitability.
First, Web innovators, such as Facebook, Google and Yahoo, have developed a massively scalable storage and compute architecture to manage Big Data: Hadoop, which parallelizes large data sets across low-cost commodity hardware for easy scale and dramatically reducing the cost of petabyte environments.
SimpliVity makes the rest of the OmniCube from low-cost, commodity parts.
Three is the uncertainty of inflation and commodity prices that determine the cost of food production.
Another is the uncertainty of inflation and commodity prices that determine the cost of food production.
And the high prices for both can be traced to the high cost of another commodity: corn.
In the long run, the price of any given commodity should revert to the cost of producing an incremental unit of supply.
The volatility in stock prices, recent drop in commodity prices and continued high cost of gasoline have taken their toll on investor confidence.
Should Rambus make its patent claims stick, the cost of the commodity DRAM business, which already operates with razor-thin profit margins, will be greater.
It is the cost to consumers, i.e. the cost after transportation, which is the parity price, not the cost of the commodity in its native land.
Time tested economic theory tells us that in a free, unfettered market not constrained by onerous barriers to entry, the long term price of a commodity will approach its marginal cost of production.
After months of negotiations, China's steelmakers agreed to pay up to double the price for the iron ore they buy from Rio Tinto, the biggest-ever annual rise in the cost of the commodity.
As a result, if the price of power exceeds a certain level, the manufacturer can no longer recover the cost of producing the commodity in the market.
Public cloud platforms achieve a lower cost basis by leveraging commodity infrastructure and economies of scale that come through multitenancy, automation, and standardization, he writes in a new post and report.
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We have seen intellectual property transition from a legal cost center to a financial commodity.
But all this is costly, and the commodity must be made to bear the cost.
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Dismal consumer confidence is cited as a source of concern, along with further commodity price instability - most notably the cost of energy.
There are low-cost mutual funds that will invest in commodity futures for you.
Procrastination of this variety is especially dangerous because of the preeminent power of the commodity of time and the compounding nature of opportunity cost, or the price of lost opportunity.
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Those fears gained credibility when China shocked global markets with the report Thursday that its economy experienced a surprise trade deficit in February, as the cost of imports, influenced by surging commodity prices, exceeded the value of its exports.
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Part of the growth has been driven by demand caused by everything from anthrax to bird flu to SARS. But much of it has come from 48-year-old Lim's gutsy push to ramp up quickly and cost effectively in a low-tech commodity business to gain economies of scale and an edge over his dozens of rivals.
If governments continue expanding money supplies, the cost of credit will not rise even as commodity markets do.
Cost pressures are increasing, thanks to higher commodity prices and tighter labour markets (American unemployment is at a six-year low).
This is a good thing as it will reduce cost pressures and reduce the size of the commodity supply surge ahead, helping avoid a crash in commodity prices.
Determining the actual marginal cost of production is somewhat tricky since the commodity is priced globally in dollars, but the bottom lines for South African mining companies are ultimately determined by the price they receive in South African rand, with their expenses also paid in rand.
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But we have to ask ourselves whether cost competition has ended up making software development a commodity that can be sold off the shelf?
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