However, this quickly brings us to the second reason to support video, which is a supply-driven value-add and competitive differentiator.
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"The economics of wine are supply-driven, " says John Grant, president of Hardy Wine, a division of the U.S.' Constellation Brands.
"The economics of wine are supply-driven, " says John Grant, president of Hardy Wine, a division of the U.S.' Constellation Brands (nyse: STZ - news - people ).
The shuttering of various European and U.S. northeast refinery operations of late due to unfavorable margins and a difficult lending environment could also eventually lead to supply-constraint driven gasoline price spikes when demand starts to pick up again towards the summer peak driving season period, say analysts.
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The offsetting of refinery shutdowns in the Northeast by, for instance, the expansion of Motiva Enterprises a joint venture between Shell (RDS.A) and Saudi Refining of its Port Arthur, Texas refinery to 600, 000 barrels a day, may also help prevent supply-constraint driven gasoline prices spikes.
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Technologies need to advance in a logical supply-and-demand-driven order rather than the fits and starts of porkbarrel science.
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Market-driven demand grew while government-controlled supply shrank.
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There is little chance of further supply-side reforms under Angela Merkel's consensus-driven grand coalition.
It's a demand-driven commodity, where the reserve margin on the supply side has shrunk to under 2 million barrels per day.
That's because Asia's banks will supply less and shareholders will offer more capital in a consumer- and market-driven economy.
When I look at the global water crisis purely from a market-driven perspective, I see perhaps the single greatest imbalance of supply and demand that exists in the global marketplace.
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Food and energy, driven by (notoriously volatile) commodity prices, can experience short-lived supply disruptions tied to weather, geopolitics, technology failures, etc.
When interest rates are allowed to float free of central bank intervention, the happy consequence of such a market-driven price is that in reaching natural levels conceived in the marketplace, the supply of and demand for credit is equalized.
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