Communities with Type B contracts, for example, typically discount the cost of additional care for a set time period.
Kumar realized that the railways had traditionally overpriced petroleum freight rates and quickly offered Ambani a 20% discount on his cost.
Before the Chinese restrictions on exports the La and Ce were often selling at a discount to production cost: for they were simply by-products of the extraction of the more desirable and more expensive elements.
According to Gaul, employee wages represent a major cost for a discount-store company like Variety.
Any developer or company that completes the application process will receive a discount code that reduces the cost of registration to attend.
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Changing discount rates would properly reflect the cost of benefits in the present, and discourage shortsighted decisions.
Hospitals can buy replacements at just over cost and at a discount to give or sell to new parents.
This makes it all the more surprising that some companies pay little attention to the impact on the discount rate of changes in their cost of capital.
And raising that discount rate really does lower that social cost of carbon emissions.
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Meanwhile federal judges from the Central District of California have stymied two separate condemnations designed to benefit discount retailer Costco (nasdaq: COST - news - people ).
Lumber Liquidators is a low cost provider of flooring which operates discount stores across the United States.
But the specific way that public pensions discount liabilities causes them to underestimate the present cost of paying future benefits.
Well, it means that Stern is wrong in his discount rate, that the currently assumed social cost of carbon emissions is too high, that we should almost certainly be doing less about climate change than is currently planned and finally, that we should, again almost certainly, aim for more economic growth even at the expense of carbon emissions and climate change than is currently thought optimal.
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Cost-benefit analysis (which puts a discount rate on the future, and measures in dollars and cents) is wicked.
Thus that risk must be raised: which in turn raises the discount rate that must be used and lowers the social cost of carbon emissions in the present.
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Worse, depositors have to forgo any value craftsmanship may have added to their gold, and take a further 10% to 15% discount on its value as metal, to pay for the cost of melting.
The payment is a 30% discount to the market value of his stake, not including the cost of the 10-year waiting period, which was based on an outside financial firm's assessment of fair value because there are some restrictions on his stock, it said.
There is a lot of debate about the right discount rate to use, but the conservative approach is to take the cost of government borrowing.
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Its cost will be borne by Russian taxpayers rather than by Gazprom, as the discount in gas prices to Ukraine will be provided by a cut in export duty paid by Gazprom to the Russian state.
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The more discount retailers like Target, Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT) and Costco (NASDAQ:COST) are performing better in this slow economic recovery.
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Once again, China and Brazil dominate the list of stocks trading at a discount to their peers, or having declined enough in the last several trading sessions to reduce the cost of acquiring equity in the company.
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More importantly, starting a cellar is by far the most cost-effective way of buying wine, as purchasing by the dozen automatically qualifies for a discount.
People whose incomes are around the poverty level could see almost all of the cost of their insurance subsidized, while people at the upper end will get only a small discount toward their premiums.
We have seen both discount, big box retailers like Target ( TGT), Wal-Mart ( WMT) and Costco ( COST) show relative strength, but we have also seen some high-end retailers like Michael Kors ( KORS) surpass expectations as well.
That was followed by the explosive growth of available mutual funds by which investors could swap an entire portfolio with just one phone call, and later just a click of a computer mouse, with no transaction cost if handled directly with the mutual fund, and only one small commission if handled through a discount broker.
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