First, the cheaper dollar increases the relative price of Japanese cars, French wines and Italian holidays.
Meanwhile, the relative price of corn (maize) to rice, which is much more favoured, has jumped by half.
The combined effect of these two actions would change the relative price of labor and goods by roughly 30 percent.
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Mr Cline thinks most poor countries would benefit from a rise in the relative price of agricultural goods in the world market.
According to economic theory, this should reduce the relative price of labour and raise the global return to capital which is exactly what has happened.
Cramming more population on the same area of lands drives down farm productivity, drives up the relative price of food and makes the common people poor again.
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The Cabot Market Letter uses a combination of technical and fundamental analysis and focuses on companies with accelerating growth in sales and profits, along with high relative price strength.
They are going to negotiate prices that are consistent with other hospitals in the region, with the relative price determined by things like the market share and procedure the hospital, etc.
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It also includes the price-earnings ratio as a basic valuation measure, the earnings growth rate to examine recent growth, and the 52-week relative price strength to highlight stock market performance relative to other companies.
In technical terms, this means that, while our arbitrage data is not affected (since the volume of arbitrage opportunities is independent of the reasons for which some items are sold cheaply and resold expensively), our relative price estimates are.
In his book, Mr Sen raised the theoretical possibility that a pastoralist's supply curve might actually bend back on itself: as the relative price of livestock falls, a hungry pastoralist might supply more animals to the market, not fewer as elementary economic principles would imply.
The increase in the demand for paper currency and gold not only had a quantity effect on the money supply but it also put upward pressure on the price of gold, which meant that dollar prices of all goods and services had to fall for the relative price of gold to rise.
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The Big Mac Index uses Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) in comparing the price of the ubiquitous Big Mac across countries relative to its price in the USA. PPP refers to the idea that exchange rates across two countries should be equal to the relative price of a basket of goods and services in both countries.
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That means the stadium area price relative to metro price is greater than 1.
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Multiple expansion occurs when stock prices move higher relative to earnings or when earnings move lower relative to price (as in a recession).
The decisions are predicated on federal and state environmental laws as well as prior court cases, not to mention the relative cheap price of natural gas.
Relative stock price appreciated underscored the nature of the rally as banks that passed the test but were not able to deploy capital BAC for example rallied more than banks allowed significant capital deployment JPM, USB and WFC.
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As a result, in using the relative stock price growth and other market measures, Morgan Stanley did not pay its CEO for the windfall gains that were realized during the boom years of 2005 to 2007.
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For most of the past three decades, the price of non-durable goods has been falling relative to the price of the services investment advice, personal care, domestic help and so on that the rich spend more of their money on.
When investors see a low stock price relative to growth prospects, they often ignore the growth prospects and assume the low stock price is justified.
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Without a tax, it is as if we subsidize pollution relative to its price in a complete market.
But its high price relative to profits requires it to keep growing fast.
What we are talking about here is customer service efficiency, how much value your service adds relative to the price you charge.
Emerging markets equities still look cheap relative to historic price-to-book averages.
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The relative high purchase price of electric cars comes from the cost of the lithium-ion batteries, which a Ford executive recently revealed can make up one-third of a car's price.
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That's why a dividend investor focuses on the business, not the stock, and makes sure that the amount (high, relative to the price paid for the shares), quality (high, not borrowed or about to be cut) and trajectory (modestly positive) of the dividend are all as they should be.
If people are unemployed, it means the price of labor is artificially high relative to the market-clearing price.
Another salient factor: its bountiful discretionary free cash flow relative to its stock price.
Were benefits going to rise under personal accounts, or fall relative to income under price indexing?
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