D.s to create algorithms to estimate demand and pricing to make the service efficient.
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However, SWT has insisted that the new prices will bring the company into line with other operators and allow it to "better match demand and pricing".
Yesterday, Dell indicated that PC demand and pricing remain difficult.
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"In our planning process for 2010, we assumed conditions in the U.S. housing industry would be comparable with the second half of 2009, with relatively stable demand and pricing, " said RichardDugasRichard Dugas, PulteGroup's chief executive.
This has driven down demand and pricing for pressure pumping services like fracking that are used to extract gas from shale rock formations, severely impacting margins of most large oil field firms including Baker Hughes.
On the supply side, entrepreneurs are able to increasingly locate crowd-sourced funding through platforms like IndieGoGo, to iterate through social product development on platforms like Quirky, and to test market demand, pricing and take pre-orders to build a demand pipeline via platforms like Kickstarter.
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As a result, these networks are in great demand and ensure good pricing power.
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Michael Leister, senior strategist at Commerzbank in London, said it was a "very strong auction on all accounts", on both the demand side and the pricing side.
Parties should be on the phone weekly sharing demand forecasts and market pricing, discussing cash-flow issues, updating pricing, and providing continuous feedback and updates on current business conditions.
Our methodology focuses on supply and demand, historical capital spending, and pricing patterns that repeat themselves during every shortage and every downturn.
He wrote inflation had "persisted even as demand has moderated and the pricing power of corporates weakened".
That number could easily double again, he says, with a combination of dynamic pricing and demand response.
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Mike Howard, principle DRAM analyst for DRAM and memory at iSuppli, said in a statement that the soft DRAM pricing reflects both weaker PC demand and greater supply.
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This was a demonstration of a suite of open and extensible software applications for managing energy demand and time-of-use pricing by a firm in Boulder, Colorado, called Tendril.
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The solar products comapny this afternoon warned that due to a variety of factors, including slower-than-expected demand and worse-than-expected pricing pressure, it is running into a cash crunch.
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And decreased consumer spending (or decreased final demand, in economic terms) means less pricing power for companies and is yet another element of deflation.
But a select few will see the writing on the wall and transform themselves from within, so they can stay relevant in a new world where education is a freely traded commodity subject to the same pricing, supply and demand constraints as every other commodity on planet earth.
Indeed, Uber passengers do not know the final cost of the ride until after it is over because the service not only takes into account the distance and duration of the trip, but also uses dynamic pricing in which rates change depending on supply and demand conditions.
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But deflation that comes from a lack of pricing power and lower final demand is not good.
With supply down and demand continuing to grow, the premium pricing is justified.
To prevent either from being set freely by supply and demand is to block financial markets from pricing these risks rationally.
To stimulate demand, the bank could resort to promotional and pricing tactics that would weigh on margins and such a scenario could weigh on margins going forward.
Overall, the fundamental forecasts for 2013 look too benign to lead to any call of a major break from the same pricing pattern and supply-demand pattern of 2011 and 2012.
Good products and smart pricing strategies that drive robust demand can obviously accelerate cycles of innovation.
Ultimately the pricing is a function of the demand and value that customers have for that service.
Even though both the companies missed market expectations in their latest quarterly results, Home Depot seems to have handled the difficult housing market and slow demand recovery better with successful cost-cutting and efficiency initiatives, store remodels, improved service and better pricing strategies.
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Similarly, carriers have introduced tiered pricing plans and data caps to curb demand usage.
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This dynamic feeds off itself, because as secondary bonds rise on stronger buying, relative value for new issues improves, which makes pricing come down, which stimulates greater demand and so on.
Congestion pricing: The supply-and-demand rule in action, digitally.
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