Will discounting our product lead to more sales or just a hit to margins?
Toys "R" Us, the inventor of chain-store toy discounting, is being run ragged by Wal-Mart.
The company said same-store sales were up only 0.4% in October, despite holiday discounting.
Stores wind up heavily discounting the used goods to get them back out of the store.
The Nasdaq has cut its fees twice since January, when Cummings started his deep-discounting strategy.
Maybe from the 1100 level after the market finishes discounting everything that can go wrong.
Gifting of partnership interests works hand-in-hand with the principal of discounting of those interests.
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Even discounting for this being another way to talk about themselves, this wears off soon.
The market is discounting an Obama presidency and a 60-seat filibuster-proof Democratic Senate majority.
He notes that the site has extended its Cyber Monday discounting through December 3.
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Knowing who is discounting and how could be valuable information for those sorts of economic analysts.
"Competition is still fierce, there's big discounting out there, especially in retail, " noted Cunningham.
Orbach thinks Hollywood could deflect charges of gouging by discounting documentaries and other niche films.
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He notes that in the March quarter the company saw less discounting than normal, boosting profitability.
In the watch industry, the internet is synonymous with the crude act of discounting.
Stock values are derived by discounting dividends, bond values by discounting interest coupon payments.
Thanks to the discounting mechanism, that raises the present value of the funds' liabilities.
It would value Apple by projecting its cashflows and discounting them by its cost of capital.
Even better, there is room to model out where discounting fits and where it is counterproductive.
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But much of this improvement has come from heavy discounting or with government help.
However, its net profit margin was halved owing to discounting and a supply glut.
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Therefore, investors may be discounting growth today more than any time since the 1930s.
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Defenders of Harvard's portfolio argue the secondary market is discounting private equity stakes too much.
The deep discounting of passenger vehicles is in line with the larger-than-anticipated fall in inflation last month.
This raised the stakes in price discounting, a practice that had already been spreading for five years.
But as discounting has become price-of-entry, shoppers are looking for deals before they are looking at brands.
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He argues that investors should be wary of broad brush strokes that tout value while discounting growth.
The drop was partly due to reduced sales outside of the food aisles and some deep discounting.
During the holiday season, retailers are increasingly discounting to attract customers who are getting bombarded by promotions.
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Apple tends to avoid discounting its products, but this year offered some deals on Black Friday.
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