Target CEO Gregg Steinhafel fired off a note to suppliers demanding they step up the pace of innovation, provide more exclusive merchandise and lower prices in order of the retailer to better compete with online retailers.
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The core issue involves a trading strategy that industry veterans say has actually been globally commonplace: an artificial depression of next-day physical energy prices in order to increase the value of separate financial contracts.
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The pipeline system in certain keys areas became constrained, and in brief periods of crazy demand prices can go up by an order of magnitude.
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Specifically, there is concern that the priority of the Chinese would be to maximize production and drive down world prices in order to reduce the cost of domestic food production.
Saudi Arabia's energy minister, Ali al-Naimi, is now urging petroleum exporters to raise the supply of oil in order to bring prices down.
Thus someone needs to be buying lots of bonds in order to keep prices up and yields down, to stop this death spiral happening.
There are signs, too, that Saudi Arabia has stanched the flow of oil a little of late, in order to prop up prices.
Further, as he puts on a trade, he tries to place a stop-loss order that kicks him out of the market should prices move against him.
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That would put still further pressure on companies to slash output and prices in order to get rid of the mountains of unsold goods now cluttering stores and showrooms.
For nearly six months the Public Utilities Commission of Texas and an independent market monitor have been investigating whether the Dallas-based energy giant manipulated the state's wholesale energy market by briefly withholding production in order to drive up prices during the summer of 2005.
He responded to Mr Swinney's question by stating that he believes that the Scottish Parliament should support the UK Government's efforts to pressurise those who are responsible for the production of oil and the international price of oil, in order to secure lower prices.
By cutting transaction expenses, aggregating buying power, holding auctions in order to lower prices and exploiting the efficiencies of a single marketplace, the companies hope to save billions of dollars while simultaneously making a fortune on their stakes in the exchange itself, which is to be floated as a stand-alone firm next year.
The "zigzag" movement of prices rising and falling in short order was normal, she said, and a sign of the intense price competition on the market.
While Airbus announced a smaller 13-plane order from Turkish Airways, some U.S. airlines announced different levels of price hikes in order to cover surging fuel prices.
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In order to head off a round of sharply higher energy prices -- spurred by anticipation of future supply disruptions and the activities of speculators -- the United States obtained the agreement of its allies to release Western oil stocks at the first sign of significant price hikes.
However, in order to take advantage of the sharp increase in iron ore prices in the past few years, miners decided to move to a quarterly contract system, whereby the contracts would be priced based on the average price in the preceding quarter.
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While market size drives local sponsorship deals and TV money, souped-up venues that drive revenue through high ticket prices, luxury suites and corporate packages are the order of the day.
In a statement issued without the usual summit to precede it, the G7 called on oil-producing countries to increase output in order to dampen oil prices, which have risen since June because of concern about a potential Israeli military strike on Iran.
And once they are inside a store, they are using their phones to compare prices with online offers, check product reviews, order out-of-stock items directly, and pay for their purchases.
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For the customer who can time it right, a dealer might be willing to cut prices pretty low on one car, in order to make hundreds of extra dollars per car on all the cars that went before.
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And our teams are going to be working very hard together to come up with common papers and common positions on the issues which are of interest and which come within the agreement of the G20, such as the matter of currencies, of commodity prices, and all that needs to be done in order to reduce the current and present imbalances.
In order to dampen the rise in pork prices, China announced in July a series of measures, including subsidies to boost pig supply.
It seems Scots have slowed up on saving in order to use their disposable income to keep up living standards in the face of higher prices.
Starting in the late 1990s, dentists began banding together under DSOs, taking advantage of economies of scale in order to cut overhead costs and provide quality service at much lower prices.
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Shetty says he charges premium prices to 40% of his patients who can afford it, in order to subsidize the same treatment for those who can't.
OPEC's spare capacity is now thought to be 1-2% of global demand, well under the 4% that is thought necessary in order to influence prices.
Jeanswear producer Levi Strauss, which raised prices earlier this year to cover higher cotton costs, said earlier this week it ended up slashing prices at retail this fall in order to move merchandise as families bought fewer pairs of back-to-school jeans rather than spend more.
However, under the agreement, Tiffany may reduce retail prices by 20 percent in order to achieve an overall average gross margin for Peretti objects of no greater than 50 percent.
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In order to forestall another big decline in housing prices, the Fed might well further expand its program of buying mortgage-backed securities, which, at some point, could trigger an inflationary response.
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