They tend to modify their consumption patterns when prices change, even if their purchasing power doesn't.
Stock prices change every day and are subject to all manner of emotion and trivial news flow.
The European economists found that retail prices change every four or five quarters.
In an uncertain housing market like this one, those prices change every month and there are more factors than ever contributing to them.
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Because the inverse of supply and or demand not changing very much when prices change is that prices change a lot in response to only small changes in supply and or demand.
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Home Depot says the startup, renamed the Home Depot Innovation Lab, will help it compete in an online environment where prices change by the second and are determined by algorithms rather than merchants.
Changes in gasoline prices also change the relative prices of the most fuel-efficient cars and the least fuel-efficient cars.
In theory, share prices should change only if there is fresh news affecting valuations.
But the Internet is unlikely to make all prices more flexible, especially because it may often be more efficient for prices to change irregularly.
Keep in mind that when a dividend is paid, the stock price typically decreases to reflect the dividend (remembering that prices can change quickly for other reasons).
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Which could mean that by announcing the mark to market loss, but leaving the position open, prices will change sufficiently to reduce the loss before those positions are closed.
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This fund will be actively managed and its shares will be listed on NYSE Arca, Inc. and other secondary markets and trade at prices that change throughout the day.
The evidence from the euro area, fruit of a three-year project co-ordinated by the European Central Bank and completed this year, suggests that prices there change less often than in the United States.
Airline pricing is enormously complex, often confounding and angering travelers with prices that change several times a day, carry an almanac full of rules, restrictions and penalties and have huge disparities in the price of a trip in different markets or even just different days.
The desirability of individual stocks change as their prices and company performances change over time.
So no farmer is entirely a price taker, their presence or not in the market does change prices.
But Ofcom has received hundreds of complaints from phone users, with many unaware that their provider can change prices mid-contract.
After that, the money prices of goods change with great regularity for reasons ranging from consumer preference to productivity enhancements.
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The commission has described how supermarkets change prices and cancel orders at the last minute, which could discourage suppliers from investing.
Announcing that the position is in loss will lead to an expectations change among those other traders of that same instrument: and expectations changes change prices.
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In the physical world, megastores such as Wal-Mart thrive on high volume, deep discounts and speedy, flexible supply chains that allow them to change prices and product mix on a daily basis.
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But I think my reaction in Belize also has a more behavioral component: Home displays of energy use make this use more salient and may reduce our usage even if prices do not change.
Earlier at the Rome summit, U.N. chief Ban Ki-Moon called for a drastic increase in food production to meet the demands of a rising population and stave off a crisis brought about by oil prices, climate change and the impact of the biofuel market.
The merger appears to have been helped along by an abrupt change of direction in NYSE seat prices as well as the abrupt change in thinking by its participants.
The CPI thus measures the rates of change in prices, rather than the level of prices.
But while fundamentals may support stable house prices, these could change if the UK joined the euro, he adds.
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