As luxury e-tailers have cut their prices to survive, the labels, fearing that cheap prices mean a cheap image, have fled.
The sudden drop in wholesale power prices triggered by cheap natural gas prices is undercutting the economics of wind power and solar photovoltaic projects.
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However, this was happening against a background of very high oil prices and cheap foreign credit.
Global competitors can match the assets, and drive down prices using cheap labor and operating by less onerous standards.
With such an abundance of natural gas in the United States, supply vastly exceeds demand and prices are cheap.
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Fabricated metal products will have a small boost from a drop in primary metals prices that cheap energy costs will trigger.
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Tariffs for using utilities and the infrastructure are extremely low: local calls are usually free, gas prices artificially cheap and wholesale electricity costs about a tenth of the average European level.
With the prices so cheap, we might also see people just subscribing to everything (Amazon, Netflix, Hulu) which could give rise to new services like Jinni to sort through the clutter.
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It shows the joint and several influence on prices (measured as percentage points of extra inflation) from unemployment, import prices, cheap oil and the cost of employer-provided fringe benefits (including pensions and health insurance), from 1994 until the first quarter of 1998.
Silver Wheaton has long-term contracts with other mining companies to buy silver at very cheap prices.
Those airlines offer extremely cheap prices and are a good way to move around Europe.
Higher share prices make it cheap for firms to raise equity finance and so they invest more.
Like other wholesale chains, BJ's Wholesale Club experienced a recession-based boost as cost-conscious consumers sought out cheap prices.
Today Egypt is peaceful, its prices are comparatively cheap, but its tourist industry, like its pharaonic temples, is in ruins.
"Being pioneers, New World managed to get some very good projects and bought land at very cheap prices, " says Pang.
Retailers also want to work with RSI because of pressure from Amazon.com, which offers cheap prices, says Retail Solutions CEO Jonathan Golovin.
Of the property stocks, Ang likes City Developments, which has a strong balance sheet and a land bank acquired at cheap prices.
In my opinion, investors would be well advised to maintain an overweight position in equities to take advantage of these historically cheap prices.
The current downturn, correction, whatever, is an opportunity to add to the large, long-term, solid dividend payers in my portfolio at cheap prices.
Feng Deng of Northern Light Venture Capital said that speed to market and cheap prices still matter most for startups to get ahead today in China.
"The thing about the really cheap prices, being able to decide on the day whether you went or not, is that it creates an addiction, " he says.
In exchange for the 28-day delay in renting new releases, Netflix is able to acquire online content at cheap prices, which it passes on to its customers.
Without it, foreign investors, however attracted they may be by the cheap prices devaluation has brought, will wait, knowing that next week assets will be cheaper still.
In Japan, where Goldman has invested for 30 years, the firm has been buying once coveted golf courses at depressed prices and similarly cheap office buildings and businesses.
So, Aldi gets great reviews, for its new NYC store, its move into urban areas, and in general, mainly because they carry decent quality products at cheap prices.
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However, there is a good side to having the dollar stores and Walmarts as indirect competitors since they lower the value of brand names with their cheap prices.
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This productivity, combined with the turning out of services and products at cheap prices by emerging countries such as China and India, masked the damage the Fed was doing.
That is, in part, because many of the new investors plan to hold the property for longer periods, and don't need cheap prices to profit from a quick turnaround.
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