In the spot market, according to the web site DRAMeXchange, prices today jumped 5% in the spot market for DRAMs, with 10%-20% increased for NAND flash memory.
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With additional capacity kicking in over the next 4-5 years, we may eventually see supply outpacing demand, which would result in oversupply and a consequent decline in spot market prices.
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The majors can't raise prices at retail because of fierce competition from independent discounters who can get all the supplies they want in a spot market awash in the stuff.
These products are then sold to direct end users, marketers and in the spot market.
The company said the Fine Silicon charge reflects a sharp drop in the spot market price of polysilicon.
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Iron ore prices have been sliding in the spot market over the past few months as a result of weak demand.
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The company is insulated from fluctuations in the spot market for juice, especially from Napa and Sonoma, where prices have zoomed of late.
Also according to the annual report, the company has traditionally purchased natural gas, through the use of forward purchase contracts, in the spot market.
Another approach is to borrow bullion to sell today in the spot market and repay the gold, with interest, from the mines' future production.
Genco also has an ownership interest in Baltic Trading Limited ( BALT), a publicly traded company whose vessels are involved more heavily in the spot market where rates are more volatile.
The currency is closely monitored by the Central Bank of China and in the spot market, is allowed to rise or fall by 1 percent from the set parity rate each trading day.
Governor Wheeler and his fellow cohorts are expected to step up their resistance against further NZD strength, especially now that they have revealed their pain threshold level in the spot market for the NZD currency value.
Casey's buys its gas in the spot market, but sometimes it can't recover a price hike immediately at the pump, since some of the competition is buying on long-term contracts and can afford to respond more gradually.
In response, HP pointed to its top spot in the market for x86 servers.
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After all, his country has been intervening in the local spot market to keep the real low.
And networks can exact a few extra sponsor dollars, up to a 20% premium in a spot-market buy.
Most online forex traders have accounts with retail off-exchange forex brokers, most of whom only offer trading in the forex spot market.
And when Nvidia wanted to grab a spot in the market for mobile multimedia gizmos, it bought PortalPlayer, the company that supplied the silicon for the original iPod.
The report come a day after Dell launched a new suite of servers targeting HP, which owns the top spot in the market for servers running processors supplied by Intel and AMD.
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Oil pumped in the Gulf of Guinea comes ashore, via the international spot market, in the form of billion-dollar transfers that have made Lagos a regional financial centre.
For Britain's private-health insurers, that leaves company-sponsored plans as one bright spot in a dull market.
The 11.9-liter engine is a game changer, industry officials say, because it occupies a "sweet spot" in the market.
Gallaher bought Russian cigarette maker Liggett-Ducat in 2000, and the acquisition would leapfrog Japan Tobacco over Altria Group 's Philip Morris into the No. 1 spot in the Russian market, with a 34% market share .
Gallaher bought Russian cigarette maker Liggett-Ducat in 2000, and the acquisition would leapfrog Japan Tobacco over Altria Group 's (nyse: MO - news - people ) Philip Morris into the No. 1 spot in the Russian market, with a 34% market share .
Since its launch in 2004, the DS line has held the top spot in the hand held game market, selling twice as many units than the PlayStation Portable.
That may be why this game is a rare bright spot in an otherwise lackluster market, and one of the most important ideas in video games right now.
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But it would be good to lose some of this bias as economic power shifts to developing countries, particularly China, which took over the top spot in the global PC market from the United States in 2Q11.
Rich and Green, who essentially invented spot-market trading in oil, aroused the scrutiny of the U.S. Justice Department for their shady Middle Eastern trades in the 1970s.
Nokia maintained the top spot in the overall mobile phone market despite year-over-year unit shipment growth of less than 2% in new chief executive Steven Elop's first quarter at the helm.
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