Material price spikes have caused industry turmoil in recent years.
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But the spread between the price of the raw material and the price of the finished good is a function of the supply of ethylene-making capacity and the demand for ethylene.
Because while a stronger yuan increases the dollar price of Chinese goods, it also lowers the yuan price of foreign raw material, allowing Chinese manufacturers to keep a lid on the price of their finished goods.
If there are lawsuits, however, then the issue may become material to the stock price of Roche.
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Telecom Italia says the services were not material to the buyout price.
Imagine a cyclical business in which the government fixes the price of raw material and mandates where to buy it.
Tommy Gallagher said it would have the practical effect of raising the price of quarried material and put Northern Ireland at a competitive disadvantage to the Republic of Ireland.
According to Jim Stoppert, the company's president, what matters is that the material is able to compete on price and performance.
We are looking at other metal and material alternatives to offer a more comfortable price point to our end consumers.
But with a global capacity glut in 2001 chemical prices softened, even as raw material costs like natural gas began a fivefold price increase.
They were crippled in their battle against the Scots by the simple fact that wine, their raw material, cost up to 20 times the price of barley.
On the cost front too, we believe the company will continue to experience pressures despite the falling price of guar gum, a key raw material used in hydraulic fracturing.
The spot market was, and is, relatively thin, and with spot material in relatively short supply, buyers had to bid up price to quite high levels to establish positions.
Janjigian notes that investment risks include rising raw material and transportation costs, but he also points out that recent price increases should keep earnings strong.
Let me provide a look at how a car company tracks profitability of a product program: measured are material cost and labor, and these are deducted from the selling price.
Price signals channel resources and people who aspire to better their material circumstances.
Buyers tend to equate value with price, so "jade and diamonds are prized for their material costs, " she says.
From controversial metrics in our S1 to our material weakness to two quarters of missing our own expectations and a stock price that's hovering around one quarter of our listing price, the events of the last year-and-a-half speak for themselves.
They assumed a continuing high price for silicon and thus their technology concentrated on making that expensive material more productive.
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Other authors in recent years have used Internet material without attribution, including Chris Anderson, whose 2009 book "Free: The Future of a Radical Price" contained passages taken verbatim from Wikipedia.
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