Back in the 1970s, Target had meandered from its first discount successes just a decade earlier.
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Banks were reluctant to go to the discount window at first, but borrowing had picked up by mid-September as necessity outweighed stigma.
In their version, the legislation was a done deal in the spring when Ms. Raimondo cut the discount rate and first floated the reforms.
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"There is a lot of pressure out there not to be that auto maker that offers the first big discount and starts the incentive wars, " said Jessica Caldwell, a senior analyst with Edmunds.com.
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Bucking the trend, Costco was one of the few major discount retailers to deliver solid first quarter sales numbers amid a slow economy and the gradual impact of the sequester and the expiration of the payroll tax cut.
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He got an encouraging response rate -- about 1% -- from people who agreed to buy the first book at a discount.
David Neeleman, the discount carrier's chief, first used at-home workers when he ran Morris Air 12 years ago, well before offshoring became a political issue.
First, as the discount rate is at the lowest level it has been in decades, forest assets are much more competitive with other asset classes.
We looked at the deep discount closed-ends and ruled the first few out.
The Fed has tried to pump money into the banking system to break the log jam, first by opening up its discount window to deposit banks and then by inventing a new term auction program for them.
Banks are also permitted to discount mortgage rates up to 30% for first-time buyers.
Nor does anyone expect any reversal of another trend: consumers have been buying through a growing number of channels, from department stores to discount warehouses to the internet, often going online first to hunt for the best prices.
Before that, Pure Digital made its mark with the first disposable digital cameras sold through drug and discount retailers as store brands.
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It cut commissions in the 1970s when others were raising them, offered one of the first mutual fund supermarkets in the 1980s and discount online trading a decade later.
Competition among other generics will drive down consumer prices, creating a 30% drop when the first rivals step in and an 80% discount once 20 or more competitors pile on, according to researchers at Duke University.
Its first easing move of the crisis was a change in the discount rate.
The Federal Reserve is preparing to narrow this spread, first by raising the rate it charges on loans through its discount window.
Li Peixuan, who was at a property showroom in Shanghai's Minhang district with her boyfriend purchasing their first home, said she was attracted by the 15% discount, which would push the mortgage rate down to around 6.8%.
Inmar, an American firm that processes discount coupons, says that redemptions in America were 17% higher in the first quarter of 2009 than in the same period last year, as consumers hunted for bargains.
In 1995, I took advantage of the student discount program at NYU to purchase the PowerBook 5300cs, which was part of the first family of Apple Powerbooks.
"My first priorities are to regain the respect of our shareholders by eliminating the discount in our share price and to find the very best leader to be our future chief executive, " he added.
First, the farther into the future are the transfers you will receive, the more you should discount it.
Bigger competitors often match prices of discount carriers like Virgin America, which had 20% of all passengers flying between JFK and LAX in the first quarter, according to consulting firm Oliver Wyman Group's PlaneStats database.
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