Because prices turned around at different times in different metros, and some metros have seen prices rise for 2 years or more, metro-level inventory changes show what might happen to inventory nationally as the price rebound continues.
Both ended up offering deep discounts in an effort to move a significant level of inventory still left on the floor at Christmas time.
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Its skill in understanding fashion trends and the right level of mark-up on merchandise, as well as the proper level of inventory, and the intelligent staffing of stores makes the all the difference.
Our view is that semiconductor growth rates have compressed to a level such that inventory cycles are not able to drive equity valuation outperformance.
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That likely reduces the inventory of the lowest award level, especially now when fares are high, airline capacity is down and demand for award seats is higher.
Most striking however is the fact that inventory has contracted to its lowest level since December 1999, more than 13 years ago.
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In Corning's wholly owned display business and Samsung Corning Precision, total glass volume is expected to be consistent to down low-single digit percentage sequentially, depending on the level of normal seasonal inventory correction expected from panel manufacturers.
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The project, composed of four phases, is to conduct a series of pilot Intangible Cultural Heritage inventory-making activities on a grassroots level in six Sub-Saharan African countries, namely Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Uganda, Swaziland and Zambia.
Or could it have been the consequence of an inadvertent inventory mix-up or other lower-level action?
It's especially tough for Toyota, the pioneer and master of just-in-time inventory and the philosophy of heijunka, or level production.
Inventory levels in many markets were at the lowest level in years.
Inventory levels are at a reasonable 6.9 month level, unchanged from a year ago.
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Even more surprising, the inventory of unsold homes has now fallen to its lowest level since March, 2005.
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Considering Switzerland, if some of its exporters are having trouble moving goods, the logical answer is for them to lower prices to the level at which buyers come in to clear their inventory.
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On Wednesday, July pending home sales were at their highest level in more than two years, according to NAR, and inventory continues to contract.
Of course, some Manhattan brokers are now warning of listing shortages and potential price increases this year, as the inventory of co-ops and condominiums on the market are at the lowest level in a decade.
Housing experts have summed up 2012 as the year of the bottom, with national-level home prices finally beginning to rise as sales activity bounded and both inventory levels and mortgage rates plunged.
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The most disappointing reports were that the inventory of unsold homes jumped 9.2% in February and is back to its level of last September, even though new home construction fell 5.9% in February, now at a level of activity not seen since 1963.
Mr. GEOFF SUNDSTROM (Spokesman, Triple-A): What's occurring at the retail level and at the fuel distribution terminal is a complete draining of their gasoline inventory, the cleaning of all the equipment and storage, and then a refilling of that storage with the new Ethanol blend fuel.
Car inventory in June was at roughly a 43-day supply, well below the standard 60-day level, according to J.
Your avatar has a race (human, elf, orc etc), a class (warrior, priest, wizard, etc), a more or less extensive inventory of all sorts of stuff (weapons, armor, potions, fishing rods, etc), a level and, in effect, a bank account.
The advance estimate the Bureau of Economic Analysis will revise the figure twice if necessary over the next two months drew positive contributions from consumer spending, inventory investment, exports and residential investment, while reduced government spending, from the federal down to the local level, and increased imports had a negative impact.
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