Smith said although silver is the loss leader for Wednesday, this selloff is gold-inspired.
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Historically, Google has looked at absolutely everything it does besides search as a loss leader.
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For the cardmakers, the free offerings are something of a loss leader--and a snare for advertisers.
The TV revolution made them hot, something casinos needed to draw guests, even as a loss leader.
Amazon, EBay, Walmart and other on-line discounters, have targeted the electronic sector as a loss leader department.
For some manufacturers, they're a loss leader, doled out to retailers as a traffic-drawing reward for carrying high-margin refrigerators and dishwashers.
That allowed NBC Universal to break even on them after first warning that it expected them to be a loss leader.
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In May Microsoft effectively stopped treating Live like an add-on for a videogame console and started pricing the console as a loss leader for an entertainment platform.
The relevant chart went up and I said, "the three greatest threats to HMV are, online retailers, downloadable music and supermarkets discounting loss leader product".
It would appear that the stores in the south of that great country have got themselves locked into a price war on a loss leader.
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"This is not going to be a loss leader, "says Canessa.
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Comparisons with publicly traded real estate investment trusts are difficult because Hines uses its property-management business as a loss leader and makes virtually all its profits from appreciation in property values.
Comparisons with publicly traded real estate investment trusts are difficult because Hines uses its property-management business as a loss leader and takes virtually all its profits from appreciation in property values.
Yet ESPN's president, Bodenheimer, insists the X Games are more of a "loss leader" than a major profit center, expensive to produce and "tremendously valuable to the company, " mainly for promotional purposes.
Amazon's whole business is a loss leader.
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With apologies to the less wonkish, China is using physical capital as a loss leader in order to grow cities that will produce network effects will in turn foster the human capital that really makes a country rich.
In other words carbon becomes a loss leader to energy, much like the way we at times intend to make a quick trip to our neighborhood grocery store to pick a bottle of milk, but end up buying a few other things.
Although many consumer game devices eventually turn a profit, they often hit the market as a loss leader, herding gamers into a closed ecosystem and securing a revenue stream for the manufacturer -- every Nintendo, Xbox or PlayStation game made funnels a small licensing fee to the owner of the platform.
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But such a loss-leader model does not seem to be working in the daily-deal industry.
It was clear that they were simply a loss-leader for high margin referrals for other medical services.
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Smaller rivals have claimed that the big firms use auditing as a loss-leader to promote other services.
While moving data around may account for more than half of all telecoms traffic, it remains a loss-leader.
And it is hard to trust auditors' independence if they have sold their services as a loss-leader for lucrative advice.
In every other country where supermarkets sell petrol, they have used it as a loss-leader to tempt people into their shops.
That loss-leader is intended to whet the appetite for pay services.
Freeserve describes the service as a "loss-leader" for its e-commerce operation.
It was a common, loss-leader kind of issue throughout my career.
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