But as with any commodity (see article), high prices are creating a market response.
And judging from the market response, the news was positive for the stock that gained 6 percent in pre-market trade.
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One goal is to get every trading venue to adopt the same policies, so the market response will be uniform.
At the least, this was less than a broad based market response.
The report has a reputation for often coming in with a big surprise in one direction or the other that creates a dramatic market response.
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You might have thought that interest-rate cuts were the answer, until you saw the market response to the co-ordinated announcements from the Federal Reserve and others on October 8th.
In either case the weakening effect on the dollar should lift short-term earnings prospects for American exporters and the positive market response should spur consumer spending via the wealth effect.
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The ongoing tightening of lending standards, although an appropriate market response, will reduce somewhat the effective demand for housing, and foreclosed properties will add to the inventories of unsold homes.
The anemic market response to the raising of the debt ceiling early Monday was followed by heavy selling on Tuesday, and some of the major averages have already broken below the March lows.
Diverting output to a more profitable geographic market is a response to market forces, not an attempt to manipulate price.
The last set of economic numbers to come out of China gave a mixed picture of the recovery in Asia's largest economy, adding to concerns that the government could become stricter on the property market in response to a pickup in house prices.
U. took some concrete steps to deal with its sovereign debt crisis and the market soared in response.
Under those circumstances, members of Congress and private-sector activists may in the future seek targeted capital-market sanctions in response to egregious developments abroad.
The origin of money is a market-led response to barter costs, in which the best money is that which minimises the costs of trade.
"The market's response was overblown, " said Terry McEvoy of Oppenheimer.
But a sale would probably leave slim pickings for U.S. holders of Venture's now-defaulted bonds, judging from the market's response to events: Senior subordinated notes in Venture have been trading for as little as 3 cents on the dollar.
Despite the relative few market alerts posted by brokerage houses, the response to the recent market plunge was an improvement from 2008.
The stronger dollar against the yen had been seen as a leading catalyst for the rise in Japanese shares, but some traders said the currency market on Thursday was largely acting in response to the stock-market fall.
The market shot up in response: the Dow went up 25%, Nasdaq by 50%, in 2003.
Verizon is not going to countenance the big blow to its U.S. market share without a response.
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Ideally patients themselves will do it, in response to market forces that expose them to the expense of their more costly decisions.
Saudi Arabia hopes that the private sector, newly unencumbered, will sniff out fresh opportunities, diversifying the economy in response to market signals rather than royal decrees.
Because the government mandates everything from train times to many ticket prices, operators of railway lines have few levers to pull in response to market fluctuations.
In the ETF marketplace, BlackRock recently slashed fees on many of its funds in response to market share losses to Vanguard, the traditional low cost provider.
That act ended price supports for common crops such as corn and wheat, encouraging farmers to switch instead to more unusual plantings in response to market demand.
If the situation does not improve, ERCOT will first drop load resources (a market-based demand response program) and other resources under contract to be interrupted during an emergency.
Further, high persistent unemployment levels have had an adverse impact on the number of employer-sponsored health insurance enrollments as many employers have cut healthcare benefits in response to market conditions.
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