This could include employing dollar-cost averaging or automatically rebalancing your portfolio when particular asset classes gain or lose value in comparison to others.

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With their stocks down, health care REITs are cheap in comparison with the estimated liquidating value of their assets.

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That made the value shares look very cheap by comparison and created the conditions for an extended period of catching up.

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The Internet shifts the bargaining power from sellers to consumers through comparison-shopping that lets consumers get better value per dollar spent Black Friday online transactions increased by 30 percent, while the average price per ticket was down 11 percent, according to Chasepaymentech.

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Most country funds, like other index funds, are market-weighted, meaning their exposure to different stocks is based on the total value of the stocks' shares outstanding in comparison with the market capitalization of other shares in that market.

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No doubt, Keiter realizes the competition in comparison shopping is fierce and that, to thrive, he needs a compelling value proposition.

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Angrisani also saw value of one of Greenfield's acquisitions, Ciao, a European price comparison company.

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See Figure 1 for a comparison of both variants of Case-Shiller and their corresponding analogues based on the Zillow Home Value Index.

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What the survey shows is how well those European companies that have made it have done, surviving on what in comparison to U.S. startups are if not starvation rations, then a diet of tuna sandwiches and value yogurt.

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