Caremark points to a 2003 General Accounting Office report claiming that mail-order prices were 27% below retail for brand-name drugs and 53% less for generics.
Moreover, in order for prices to rise in one market there must be a corresponding decline in other markets.
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The Trulia Price Monitor also accounts for the regular seasonal fluctuations in asking prices in order to reveal the underlying trend in prices.
Most people forget that the SPR was not established in order to stabilize prices during supply disruptions.
But the main problem in the past had "been how to get production volumes up in order to get prices down".
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To compete, they need to be as efficient as possible in order to keep prices down if and when competitors move in.
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.
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.
The falling values have also hurt the property tycoons, who have been urging the government to suspend land sales in order to force prices back up.
They may be tempted to go it alone and pump even more oil in order to keep prices in check before a rise in seasonal demand.
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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.
Listed retailers, by contrast, often face pressure to raise prices in order to meet short-term financial goals.
Further, the current FCC believes we need more nationwide network operators in order to drive down prices for consumers.
The "get Bush" crowd advocates releasing oil from the strategic petroleum reserve in order to bring market prices back down.
People spend hours analyzing their next purchase by comparing quality and prices in order to get the very best deal possible.
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UniCredit fell 14% after announcing it will sell shares at a 43% discount to current prices in order to raise new capital.
Retailers have attempted to cope with this customer power shift by offering rock bottom prices in order to ring up much-needed sales.
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Another contingent believes that any oil refined here should be restricted from export in order to lower gasoline prices here at home.
There are signs, too, that Saudi Arabia has stanched the flow of oil a little of late, in order to prop up prices.
When he took over at the treasury in 1987, France had long been lax on prices in order to keep the franc weak.
Aside from making direct purchases, consumers were using their iPhones, iPads, and Android devices to compare prices in order to get the best deals.
Robb warns that they may ease down a bit in order to make the prices for its largely more expensive organic products more competitive.
Some economists believe the Chinese central bank is clearly allowing its currency to rise faster than it otherwise would, in order to reduce import prices.
Comet, which has now ceased to exist, slashed prices in order to clear its remaining stock in the run-up to Christmas, after it went into administration.
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The assumption of the Peterson paper is that currency interventions are undertaken by foreign governments to suppress domestic currency values in order to render export prices more competitive.
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Russia is far happier sitting tight and pushing the idea that mothballing upstream investments will reduce volumes in order to put gas prices firmly back on oil indexed fundamentals.
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.
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.
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