Second, the demand curve for oil futures is based on expectations and predictions and hope and fear.
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With fear in early retreat and greed unsatiated, the retail demand curve shift for the yellow metal is reversing.
With new low cost access, the demand curve temporarily shifted causing an increase in the dollar price of gold.
The demand curve for physical oil is grounded in the real economics of electricity generation and powering factories and driving trucks.
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These three things are simultaneously determined by the demand curve you face.
In economics, luxury goods have an inverse demand curve, Dale, with Wodka, is trying to turn it back to its natural position.
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So, in economic terms, the demand curve for medical care skews upward.
They all face roughly the same (world) demand curve, but each country will have a different marginal cost for getting the oil out.
Unfortunately, the problem with their reasoning and lack of curiosity is not found in the aggregate demand curve, which government can easily spur.
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Coke machines may soon offer variable pricing for a can of pop, based on the time of day, temperature and the historical demand curve.
Companies that cater to children are subject to a more inelastic demand curve than other firms, says LPL Financial chief investment officer Burt White.
Since the demand curve for drugs is fairly inelastic and I see no reason to think marijuana is an exception this will reduce drug dealer revenue.
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By comparing sales data to advertising spending over time, Nissan can plot a demand curve showing the points at which a campaign starts to gain and lose steam.
As an example, a lot of the economics blogs that I read tend to have posts that already assume you understand the basic supply and demand curve graphs.
China may be pushing oil prices up, but it is also importing lots of other goods from the rest of the world: it has shifted out the demand curve in developed economies.
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You could try to increase total sales by lowering prices, but if you face a downward sloping demand curve then maximum profits will always occur at a lower production level than maximum revenue.
The scary part was supposed to be tablet and smartphone market, where European conumer demand trouble is creating a curve ball for investors.
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Financial institutions can play help aggregate demand and run down the cost curve of the industry.
Normally the yield curve is positive because investors demand higher yields to compensate for the risk that inflation might pick up.
But inelastic demand works in both directions on the price curve.
Buyers in poor countries demand solutions on an entirely different price-performance curve.
If you consider that every possible transaction in the economy is arbitraged against the Treasury yield curve, it is clear that paying banks above the Treasury yield curve to hold reserves will depress both total demand and bank lending.
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