You would be hard-pressed to beat that cost buying directly.
Scooterman's prices aim to beat the cost of a return taxi ride - one to get home after a night drinking and a second to pick up your car the following day.
In future, numerous trading businesses will no longer be able to beat their cost of capital, says Brad Hintz of Alliance Bernstein, though some of these may still be run as loss-leaders.
Elsewhere on the earnings calendar, NYSE Euronext, set to be acquired by IntercontinentalExchange, beat expectations thanks to cost-cutting, while Toyota Motor rode a weaker yen and improved U.S. sales to better-than-expected results.
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That a heavyweight like Cargill Dow is convinced it can beat conventional plastics on cost and performance alone may be the best reason to think that biopolymers are about to burst out of their mouldy, green niche.
Its adjusted earnings beat Wall Street expectations, as cost cuts helped offset tough pricing competition during the quarter.
They included a safety net guarantee of former Social Security benefits, which has never suffered a loss or cost due to failure of the personal account to beat the old system.
The best of them beat the classic Vanguard mutual funds in the cost game.
Plainly put, if you want an investment strategy to reduce returns, increase risk, cost and taxes, hire a manager to try to beat the market.
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In earnings news, shares of Costco (COST) are trading higher today after the wholesale club beat earnings expectations for its fiscal third quarter, with net income up 19 percent.
Perhaps not so coincidentally, at that time Wal-Mart was struggling to reclaim its image as all-American corporate after several years of beat downs in the form of reports of worker mistreatment and unreasonable cost squeezes on its suppliers.
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While they may never be able to beat LEDs, these new alternatives could match CFLs and will enjoy, for much lower low capital cost, a huge advantage when lumens are needed only occasionally.
The consistent message across all groups is that very few people beat the market with any consistency in the long-term, and that passive investing using low-cost index funds is a superior way to manage money.
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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