So when gold stayed up in price Tuesday morning, to me that meant margin selling is mostly over.
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Continued ETF liquidation and margin call selling makes it difficult to see a bottom in the near-term.
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While selling the iPhone is more lucrative considering its incredible popularity among buyers, emerging market carriers are wary of margin pressures that selling such an expensive phone entails.
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The Crowns picked a crowded, low-margin business, selling brand-name computers and parts, for their Tempe, Ariz.
Amazon can bring in higher-margin revenue by selling advertising than it can from its retail operations.
Now, the market also is being hit by margin-related selling, said Gero and Ironbeam precious-metals analyst Sean Lusk.
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Long liquidation, much of which was profit taking and margin-call selling, hit the gold market in late-morning dealings.
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The Crowns picked a crowded, low-margin business, selling brand-name computers and parts.
However, Day warns that if stock prices were to tumble sharply, that could cause margin-account selling and could limit strength in gold as investors sell profitable assets.
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By almost a 3-to-1 margin, the selling of company stock by insiders (executive officers, directors and those in charge of policymaking) outpaced buying for our 200 Best Small Companies.
The uncertainty of that situation or the big down move in the Swiss franc may have prompted skittishness in the gold market, or produced some margin-related selling in gold.
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Dixons conceded that its profit margins had been squeezed during the reporting period, but attributed this to a change in the mix of products that customers were buying - with low-margin tablet computers selling particularly well - rather than rising costs or price discounts.
In a recent interview she recalled sitting next to a banker on a plane who said he would like to offer routine, low-margin products but so long as his competitors were selling high-margin financial products he had to choice.
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Someone who can take a once great retail chain with tremendous geographical reach, strong legacy and roots in selling high margin hard to understand products and turn it into a profit center.
Selling over the past couple of trading sessions has been violent and panicky, as steep declines in the price of bullion were accompanied by the breaking of key technical levels, sparking stop-loss selling, margin calls, and then risk managers and asset allocators offloading commodity holdings to build cash levels.
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The company found itself selling low-margin, mass-market beer to an aging and shrinking North American and British market.
Other small carmakers like Porsche and BMW flourish by selling high-margin luxury cars.
"We're going to focus on selling higher-margin services to middle America, " he says.
For years Goodyear had chased volume, selling low-margin tires to auto manufacturers and replacement tires to the middle of the market.
That mindset sets Lenovo apart from other PC giants (HP, Dell) that have moved towards selling higher-margin services and cloud computing.
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Lexus has also never reduced a dealer margin on a slow-selling vehicle by lowering the listed price or raising the price dealers pay.
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Also, much of the margin-call-related selling pressure in gold and silver has now likely already occurred, which eliminated a big, bearish factor in the metals.
Also, much of the margin-call-related selling pressure in gold and silver has now likely already occurred, which eliminates a big bearish factor in the metals.
Some of the weakness is also from traders opting to book profits, besides selling to meet margin calls elsewhere, said Frank Lesh, analyst and broker with FuturePath Trading.
The other driver: Now that accounting firms are prohibited from selling higher-margin technology consulting services to their auditing clients, auditing units have to pull more of their own weight.
"The current business model, selling low-margin goods and delivering them for free, is not viable for the long term, " says Rebecca Nidositko, senior analyst for online retail strategies at Yankee Group.
For those who need to come up with quick cash to boost their margin accounts, they may turn to the selling of their futures contracts as a way to raise the cash needed to replenish their margin accounts.
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The company is also quietly eliminating low margin cars that it's been selling to rental fleets.
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