The gross profit margin shows you just how much price cuts retailers absorbed to attract customers.
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Prices that used to be determined by producers and users of commodities are now set by financial speculators making naked bets on how much price pain consumers can endure without breaking by buying and selling derivatives commodity contracts.
There has been a lot of local debate about how much of the price increase will go to environmental protection and how much will go to filling government coffers.
Now, business scholars are trying to work out more robust models to determine how much a price should be increased.
When I started planning for Hawaii, I struggled with how much the price of the trip could instead boost my savings account.
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"If you ask them to do it for themselves, you'll be surprised how much the price comes down, " says Chrysler Group Chief Executive Dieter Zetsche.
This is a measure of how much the price of an option will move for a 1% move in the value of the underlying asset.
But the hard part is knowing how much an asset-price rally is rooted in genuinely rising prosperity and how much in government policies that can't last.
When consumers are asked how sensitive they are to price or how much of a discount they require, they are notoriously strategic, always asking for deep discounts.
How much, and the price it will demand in exchange, are both uncertain.
When the consumer does not know how much and at what price, there is no ability to establish any meaningful short-term or longer-term price response.
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Typically, risk is defined by how much a stock's price swings.
By 2007 Johnson was ready to pull the plug on satellite, selling residual frequencies for a good price (how much he is contractually barred from saying).
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Not only that, seeing how much you get for the price will give you a whole new set of eyes through which to evaluate the amount of hyperbole in the marketing of other watches.
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Depending on what assumptions you make about how much of the deferred purchase price will ever be paid, Virgin is probably paying a discount of around 20% to the book value of the Rock.
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Then, the National Association of Convenience Stores, the trade group for the industry that sells most gas in the country, put out a stunning report on how much swipe fees affect the price of gas and the merchants who sell it.
Investors type in what they want to buy or sell, and how much more than the prevailing market price they would be willing to pay or receive for various-sized parcels of shares.
How much house can you get with a price tag just under half a million?
The big uncertainty around these figures is how much demand for whisky is driven by price, and what happens to the price of alternative drinks.
With a strong price on carbon, how much of those reserves will be left in the ground, in essence, creating liabilities that could take a big toll on shareholder value?
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They don't include structural or utility work, permits or taxes, but they do factor in a regional adjustment according to where you live and how much that might add to the overall price.
Its bosses believe that they have found an oil field, but they know neither how much oil it contains nor what the price of oil will be once they are ready to pump.
Launched in 2008, Castlight works with self-insured employers to create an online and mobile space where each employee can shop for health care based on price, quality and how much of their deductible has already been spent.
Price would triumphantly point out how much better his portfolios performed than did those of his successors.
This consumer-price rise is independent of how much or whether the power company paid anything for its emission permits.
He declines to say how much he had invested and says the lower price is a nod to the market.
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What we are talking about here is customer service efficiency, how much value your service adds relative to the price you charge.
Adding up the earnings from the past four quarters and dividing them by the share price gives an indication of how much return an investor is getting for his money.
The price it gets is, in a competitive market, determined by the demand for the service at the price offered, not by how much it costs to provide the service.
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Another project will examine how much investors rely on information about trading volumes and price histories.
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