Annual property taxes and selling costs, however, somewhat level the playing field, he says.
In addition, in many new buildings, developers often pass the selling costs on to buyers.
On the other hand, the disproportionate growth in emerging economies is exposing Colgate Palmolive to significant currency headwinds and higher selling costs.
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For the first time in my memory, some retailers did not add to their selling staff, thus keeping the selling costs in check.
Historically gold companies calculated total cash costs per ounce by including only mining, processing, selling and royalty costs, said Imaru Casanova, senior gold analyst and investment team member of the Van Eck International Investors Gold Fund (INIVX) and the Van Eck Global Hard Assets Fund (GHAAX).
All else being equal, free commissions are a good thing, but there are other costs involved in buying and selling ETFs besides trading costs.
Eventually the public got wise to the Ponziesque flavor to ostrich farming: You couldn't cover your costs selling meat or hides, so your only hope was to sell breeding pairs to bigger fools.
With falling revenue growth and rising marketing, selling and general costs, we now expect the stock to be worth significantly less than we previously expected until we see more encouraging signs that the company can provide growth in its international business and stabilize its cost base.
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Operating income is revenues less player costs, selling, general and marketing expenses, stadium operations, coaches and player development costs and travel.
We believe that limiting of fixed costs by Ford through their agreement with UAW will reduce their selling, general and administrative costs as a percentage of its revenues over medium-term, which could provide upside to its stock.
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Domain registration businesses would then add their own costs before selling on the products.
Julian Harman, also from Camelford, was ordered to pay costs for selling Brussel sprouts by the pound.
In his first sales pitch, Winnick was able to recoup half his costs by selling just 10% of his capacity.
At the same time as it was cutting costs and selling assets, Apache was rearranging its balance sheet.
His plan to boost capital levels by cutting billions in costs and selling non-core assets appear to be working.
Still, gross profit declined 2%, principally due to increased building material costs and selling, general and administrative expense rose 14%, primarily due to investments in personnel and other expenses related to plans for growth, including the start-up of its Lexington, Ky.
Most of Dell's expenses are made up of selling, general and administrative costs rather than research and development.
The plan included privatising about 14, 000km of railways and roads, followed by selling ports and lowering energy costs.
Excluding restructuring costs and costs related to selling its stake in Best Buy Europe, it earned 36 cents per share.
It keeps its costs down by selling direct over the Internet and offers only one car, the Mercedes A class.
Today, selling, delivery and administrative costs eat up 43% of Hostess's sales, compared with 36% at rival Flowers Foods Inc.
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The Fed instead extended its Operation Twist program aimed at keeping long-term borrowing costs low by selling short-term Treasurys and putting the money into long-term bonds.
In addition, higher selling prices and low maitenance costs helped BZ double its operating margin of 6.55% in third quarter 2009 to 14.16% in third quarter 2010.
We believe this could help lift the Ford stock as this will reduce its selling, general and administrative costs as a percentage of its revenues over the next four-years.
Ross has risen up our list of the World's Richest People in recent years by buying up assets in troubled companies, slashing costs and then selling for big profits.
The ICI is opposing rules that would require securities brokers to disclose at the point of sale both their own financial interests in selling funds and funds' costs in such detail that the industry fears it would discourage sales.
Exporters can beat domestic U.S. manufacturers on price by selling modules and turbines at raw costs.
The scandal over mis-selling, in addition to raising costs, has made it harder to persuade people to trust a private pension.
If you eventually plan on selling the house, include extra costs into your budget to prepare the property for the real estate market.
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