Well, global electricity prices are expected to increase in price, in real terms, by 15% by 2035.
The additional cost for this technology is not expected to increase the selling price of the device to the customer.
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However, we are concerned that local businesses may not see enough value in the advertising platform to increase spending and justify the expected price of this IPO.
Nevertheless, some analysts say that mine output has not grown as rapidly as might be expected given a several-fold increase in the price of gold over the last decade.
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Newmont Mining, for instance, established a novel dividend policy (linked to the price of gold), and is expected to increase their quarterly dividend by 25% this July as a result.
The company achieved operational profitability (1.1% non-IFRS) with better than expected revenues, triggering a 20% increase in stock price.
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Each of these companies trades at a discount to the stock market's trailing 12-month price-earnings ratio of 15, yet is expected to increase its earnings per share over the next two years.
Furthermore, while much of the recent oil-price increase was demand-driven, and thus expected to have relatively benign economic effects, any sizeable outages owing to Katrina could cause a supply shock similar to those that repeatedly battered the world economy in the 1970s.
Investors had been worried that the economy was going to start experiencing deflation--a prolonged bout of falling prices--but the slight increase, paired with Thursday's higher than expected reading on producer price inflation, calms those worries for now.
This is especially true in the case of riskier markets like Orlando and Las Vegas, where the expected increase in sales volume and housing turnover doesn't necessarily mean that the price trough is imminent.
Though median pay is expected to increase by 3% in 2012, when you factor in inflation (the consumer price index is growing at 3.6%), expect a reduction in compensation for most employees.
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