When supply is tight, a small increase in demand can have a disproportionately large effect on price.
With the continued growth of the U.S. population, this lower supply is definitely having an effect on price.
In the case of Starbucks, I think the effect of price on demand is more dramatic than commonly thought, as quality coffee can now be had at McDonald's for a fraction of Starbucks' prices.
But, it will nonetheless have a likely negative effect on the price of gold.
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For what we really want to know is what is the effect of the price change upon consumption?
And if not, when is the soonest any of these would have an effect on the price of gas?
Will the reverse split have any effect on the price of the stock?
The findings are backed by Sheffield University experts who have been asked by ministers to analyse what effect a minimum price would have here.
All of this is having an effect on the price of your home or the ability of someone to buy your home because they can't get credit easily.
You might also have seen the recent panic over the severe drought in the US and its effect on the price of corn, wheat and other key commodities.
At 1.7m bpd (more than is pumped from all of Libya's wells), Yukos's output makes up 2% of global oil production and thus has a noticeable effect on the price.
As I discussed in March, the most recent set of studies by economists indicates that hospital mergers have no effect on the quality of care, but do have a significant effect on the price that hospitals charge.
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And, by the way, whether the rules work or not, they'll have an effect on the price and availability of credit - probably raising the price and shrinking the availability, for the period of implementation (at least) and possibly for longer.
In other words, if the price of Chinese goods to American consumers increased by 21 percent (on average) and Americans reduced their consumption of Chinese goods by less than 21 percent, then demand would be considered inelastic, the price effect would dominate, and total import value would rise (adding to the trade deficit).
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The value of the U.S. dollar, and its effect on the price of gold, for 2013 will be largely influenced by the upcoming second round of Fiscal Cliff decisions related to spending cuts, the impending Debt Ceiling decision and further Federal Reserve actions related to interest rates in response to the ongoing, sluggish economic recovery.
The most important members of the team, then, may not be the entrepreneurs and venture capitalists who put up the drive and the money, nor the engineers who build the hardware that makes it all possible, but the economists who try to work out the effect on the price of platinum when a mountain of the stuff arrives from outer space.
As mentioned above, this rising price of food in the future has a knock-on effect on the real price of food now.
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The price reduction effect of our oil production is spread across the entire world and is thus pretty small.
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The effect on the share price depends on the extent to which the market has already absorbed the lost value.
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None of this has had any lasting effect on the share price of Sturm Ruger, the only pure handgun play on the market.
So is the likely effect on share-price volatility of quasi real-time data: would it make some investors even more short-termist in their outlook?
Tommy Gallagher said it would have the practical effect of raising the price of quarried material and put Northern Ireland at a competitive disadvantage to the Republic of Ireland.
Surely in an efficient market investors would look past the accounts to the underlying economic reality, argues Mr Grundfest, so that the effect on the share price would be negligible.
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What about the contango effect (when the price of a barrel of oil for delivery in six months is higher than an identical barrel bought on the spot market today)?
The market for humdrum corporate servers supporting run-of-the-mill business applications is shrinking, in effect, since the price of the things is falling faster than the growth in volume being shipped.
However, to my relief, all the advertising and media coverage regarding gold seems to have had little effect on the actual price of gold so I am still very bullish and I see another 40% rise in gold before it stalls out.
Members of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee will have to decide whether the dominant effect of the energy price rise is to reduce demand from the economy, so that the long term prospects for inflation returning to target are improved, or to dangerously increase underlying inflationary pressures.
The effect of the rising oil price on America could be even more disturbing.
Others in the know also discount the effect of former MP Adam Price' transatlantic interventions on her behalf.
But then the state utility commission set rates for the three utilities below the wholesale market price, in effect killing competition.
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