With increased spending, we calculate a 2% stock price sensitivity to a 5% change in our forecasted total of 2013 international stores.
Price sensitivity has existed for millennia, but in just two decades the Internet has fundamentally changed the notion of scarcity in ways no one from Nero to Henry Ford could have imagined.
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Despite their continuing price sensitivity, consumers felt a bit more comfortable opening up their wallets this year, although this appears to have occurred as a result of a decline in the savings rate.
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It is difficult to predict the price sensitivity of leisure travelers (i.e. the impact in demand to rise in prices of travel products and services) or the decline in commissions of travel agents yet.
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German industry is protected by being positioned at the premium end of most of its markets, where there is less price sensitivity, and by the country's success over the last decade in reducing costs.
With the recent tragedy in Japan likely to stall plans for further deployment of nuclear power, and alternative energy sources such as solar, wind and geothermal still in their nascent stages, we anticipate years of price sensitivity.
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This price sensitivity would not only reduce the aggregate amount spent on insurance, but may work to reduce unnecessary utilization of medical services and more price sensitivity when it comes to choosing providers, medications, and treatment plans.
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Right now, there is "no meaningful information about the quality of care, virtually no information about price, and no sensitivity to price, " but that would change if the insurance industry built "an enduring relationship with consumers, " he says.
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The promotional inducement suggests sensitivity to price or incentive, which is not good for long-term loyalty.
But there will be intense sensitivity over price - whether too much or too little.
If we tweak the Trefis model for Sprint to include increasing capital expenditures in the next five years, we can see that the stock price forecast plummets, showing a high sensitivity to capital expenditures.
It has also increased the market's sensitivity to upsets which during times of plenty would barely cause the price to flicker.
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