Taking this a step further, you can determine the number of days it takes to completely turn over inventory by dividing the number of days in a period by the inventory turnover ratio.

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Regulation (such as the robo-signing sparked foreclosure moratorium) has helped to slow distressed sales, while vast number of underwater mortgages and size of the shadow inventory suggests housing markets can face a sudden increase in the number of distressed properties.

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In fact, SLCMs permit virtually every combatant ship in the inventory to enjoy a crucial capability which once resided exclusively in the relatively small number of aircraft carriers: the ability to defend itself and to project naval power over great ranges by holding at risk enemy shipping and targets ashore.

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Despite the inventory crunch in many markets, an increasing number of buyers have been on the hunt.

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Edmunds.com tracks average days to turn, which is the average number of days vehicles were in dealer inventory before a customer drives them away.

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This would bring to six the number of Aegis platforms in Japan's inventory, giving it a considerable infrastructure to provide for an early and potentially highly effective anti-missile defense of the Home Islands by equipping these ships with both the lower-tier Standard Missile (SM) 2 Block IVA missile and upper-tier SM3 Block II missile as they become available.

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Google doesn't charge for any of these services, and few of them rank number one or two or even three in their categories, but they expand Google's inventory of advertising space.

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In an earlier post , I claimed that the 3.2 percent growth in Real GDP understated the strength in the economy because inventory depletion (probably a sign of strength) took such a big chunk out of the number.

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