That's not cheap, but it's cheaper, in a way, than drugstore.com angel Amazon -- which doesn't have any earnings.
That's not as cheap as Vanguard Health Care, an equally high-flying open-end fund (up an identical 35% this year) that charges just 0.4%.
Spain's Telefonica has said that Europe's 3G standards do not allow a system that is stable or cheap enough to compete with existing technologies.
It could, of course, be burned in the US to make power - but shale gas is so cheap that it's not worthwhile.
Since consumers are accustomed to cheap radios, that's not going to happen without some convincing.
The market is cheap right now, but that's not to say it won't get horribly cheaper.
We trolled though the Global 2000 for stocks that look cheap relative not only to their U.S. peers but also to their own recent histories.
Just being cheap, that is not good enough in today's fierce competitive market.
That can be an effective means of making quick changes, even if it's not as cheap as sending planes overseas to be fixed, as JetBlue and others do.
But, as Canadian officials explain, the type of checking set up for, say, the chemical-weapons treatydoes not fit small, cheap weapons that can be put together in anybody's basement.
That can be an effective means of making quick changes, even if it's not as cheap as sending planes overseas to be fixed, as JetBlue (nasdaq: JBLU - news - people ) and others do.
It probably does not help, either, that cheap guns are smuggled in from Somalia, Kenya's chaotic neighbour.
The tech center in Cyberjaya is a stunner and is favored by very low taxes. (Mahathir deserves credit for that.) Malaysia's manufacturing center in Penang, where Dell assembles its laptops, is not as cheap as China is, but comes close.
From 2005 to 2010, it reduced its foreign workforce by 1, 000, while cutting 28, 000 jobs in the U.S. But Chief Jeffrey Immelt tells Wessel that the company is shifting business overseas not in search of cheap labor, but rather, because of a growing customer base in countries like Brazil and China.
Nick Reilly, who heads GM's international operations, says that part of the answer is to adopt low-cost manufacturing techniques and not to load cheap cars with unnecessary technology.
If profits thin out as the only real success comes from extra-cheap devices like the Nexus 7, there's fewer opportunities to gamble on technology research that might not pan out.
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