"It'll certainly benefit China's reform process, " says Kevin Zhang, Beijing manager for the accounting firm Price Waterhouse.
Moreover, key proxies for global growth such as the price of copper and oil have established firm price support and have not yet broken through them.
With the most mixed of signals coming from the financial markets on U.S. inflation, investors next week will get some firm price data to help them determine the direction of American prices.
Economic growth this year is expected to hit a repectable 5.3% - and growth is sure to be spurred once the rebuilding begins in earnest, although the government has yet to put a firm price on the daunting reconstruction bill.
But will they hold firm if the price is to be passed over for ministerial office?
Selling low and buying high seems to indicate either extraordinarily bad judgment--or an effort to firm the stock price.
They may stand firm on their price and wait it out for a stronger buyer or for that higher price.
It would do a deal in America only if it could buy a leading firm at a price that brought instant returns.
This could add another 60 to 100 basis points to your tab, which would make it comparable to a brokerage firm's price tag.
Which means if your firm's price-value proposition is lousy, too bad.
EDF, which has three million domestic customers, is the fifth major energy firm to announce price rises and it is the biggest average increase so far.
Russia has stood firm on the price tag, however, and threatened to cut off gas supplies to the Ukraine if its terms are not agreed by Jan. 1.
What this all means is that there is an incredible amount of excess drilling capacity in the system, waiting to come on line should the natural gas price firm up for any prolonged period of time.
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To the extent that both large and small investors already have shares in a firm whose share price is boosted by inside information, investors logically achieve higher returns for the new information reflected in the stock price.
Fierce competition in the travel market and doubts over Lastminute.com's profitability further hurt the firm's share price.
Too many management movements or even a very high-profile change can negatively impact a firm's stock price.
Farmers have met bosses of Muller UK to discuss the price the firm pays them for milk.
By aligning an executive's pay with the firm's share price, options reduce the scope for playing games.
He also accuses City accountancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers - formerly Price Waterhouse - of negligence in managing his affairs.
These concerns have hurt the firm's share price ever since its high profile initial public offering (IPO) last year.
And share options should not, as a rule, be repriced at lower levels if the firm's share price falls.
The bonus is not payable for three years, when the final amount will be determined by the firm's share price.
The firm's share price, which hit a five-year low the day before the Vivanno was introduced, has since risen by around 10%.
HFS's shareholders now three-quarters of Cendant's investors bid up the firm's share price by almost 2, 000% between its flotation in 1992 and December's merger.
Now, most of the money has gone, the medicines are still at least four years away and the firm's share price has plunged.
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The firm's stock price is roughly where it was five years ago while rivals Apple, Amazon and Samsung have all seen theirs more than double.
If a firm's share price goes up for extraneous reasons a fall in interest rates, say, or a rise in the stockmarket why should the managers benefit?
Astonishingly, then, the fate of the Agnellis' stake in Fiat depends in part on what Fiat's new, non-family chairman does for the firm's share price.
But despite the solid results the firm's share price fell, apparently because its earnings per share came in one cent short of most analysts' predictions.
The Dell board committee that negotiated the current deal says it is selling the firm at a fair price, despite some analysts saying it could be worth more.
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