The sales price is used as a lure to get people into the store for the mega discounts and hopefully buy a few more things at regular marked up prices.
There are a few cases, though, where sky-high prices marked a frenzy for the companies in question.
Increased volatility has come along with a marked increase in commodity prices, particularly in the energy complex.
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The other lines have tended to cancel out except at times of very marked fluctuations in energy prices.
Looking at input costs, which generally gives insight into pent-up inflation, one sees that PPI fell 0.3% in July on the back of a marked fall in gas prices (down 3.1% in July and 40% on a three-month annualized basis).
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The worst six-month decline came in 1932 and marked the bottom for stock prices following the Crash of 1929.
Just 31 cities saw marked declines in new home prices in July, the China Daily said about the NBS report.
Banks have also reported large losses, reflecting marked declines in the market prices of mortgages and other assets that they hold.
The decline is marked by increasing drops in home prices in major cities like Chicago, Cleveland, Charlotte and Atlanta.
If markets come to believe that those crucial reductions will expire in 2008, equity prices will begin to be marked down in anticipation of this well before then.
Each period is marked by a massive run up in asset prices followed by a tremendous deflationary pressure that has sent both debt and equity markets into turmoil (down).
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In difficult economic times marked by high unemployment and rising food and gas prices, the retail landscape is comparable to the gladiator days of the Roman Empire.
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It's typically marked by lots of trading and sometimes big swings in stock prices.
First Solar brought back Mike Ahearn as an interim chief executive last October after the company had struggled, along with just about every other solar equipment manufacturer worldwide, to deal with a market marked by a glut of solar panels and plummeting solar panel prices.
Marked-down merchandise was in the JCP weekly circular at regular prices just one day before the prices were lowered.
Merrill said it marked its CDO holdings to "observable" market values, where there were prices to be observed.
At times, the price of oil, like Treasury yields, will rise along with optimism about the economy, but the early part of this year was marked by a worst-of-both-worlds scenario: rising oil prices amid declining hopes for the economy.
While the fourth quarter of 2011 marked wider than expected losses for U.S. Steel with low realized steel prices and a slump in demand, Q1 results should easily show sequential improvement.
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Meanwhile, separate data from Eurostat showed consumer prices rose 1.2% in the year to April across the eurozone, a marked slowdown from March's 1.7% rise.
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This new leg in the housing market, which follows a double-dip in prices, began to pick up steam last summer, Blitzer explained, as the indexes marked two consecutive months of increases and investors began to notice residential real estate could go from a drag to actually supporting economic growth.
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This was caused by the collapse of food prices with the loss of export markets after World War I and years of drought that were marked by huge dust storms that blackened skies at noon and scoured the land of topsoil.
The Great Depression was a worldwide economic crisis that in the United States was marked by widespread unemployment, near halts in industrial production and construction, and an 89 percent decline in stock prices.
Bentek explained in a report this week that the abundance of hydropower, especially in the Columbia River Basin, will lead to historically rare negative power prices (where the generating companies actually pay consumers to take the power) as well as a marked reduction in demand for natural gas.
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