While they may never be able to beat LEDs, these new alternatives could match CFLs and will enjoy, for much lower low capital cost, a huge advantage when lumens are needed only occasionally.
Going forward, it may be even tougher for them to compete with low-cost capital from China.
There is a chance that Brazil is heading in the U.S., European and Asian direction now of low cost capital.
The high-quality REITs with strong balance sheets and access to plenty of low-cost capital are positioned to capitalize on the sales of good assets by weak borrowers, thus fueling their growth.
His view is that this is something of a deliberate strategy, and that Amazon will use he first-party business to drive scale to attract and retain consumers and third-party sellers, to build out its fulfillment infrastructure, to be the anchor tenant for Amazon Web Services and as a source of low-cost capital.
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This expansion of the economy's risk-taking capacity has helped firms and individuals (not to mention governments) to raise record amounts of capital at low cost.
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The irony, which seems to have been lost on Washington, is that an artificially low cost of capital (created by lenders who lost sight of risk management) got us into this mess in the first place, and now we're considering returning to easy money to get us out of it.
Examples include moving capital among sub-units around the world, or the ability to gain financial benefits derived from broad international scope, via access to low cost sources of capital.
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The model may have enabled traders to fund themselves too cheaply, but the bank's managers set the internal cost of capital too low.
Over the past 30 years, China has become an industrial powerhouse by leveraging the low cost of its considerable human capital.
Many lenders reckon they will end up making a return on equity in the low teens, above their cost of capital.
We still believe that the real cost of capital is too low, and hence expect a long drawn out rate hiking cycle into 2012.
And this when valuations are in general low compared with the cost of long-term capital.
The cost of capital should remain at comparatively low levels for many companies.
Borders Group intends to use the capital in order to revamp its website and market its new low cost eReader.
Mr Summers wants the Fund to focus on short-term crisis management, and to avoid being a low-cost source of money for countries with ready access to private capital.
Inflation was a problem then, it is today, and even though capital gains rates are historically low, the weak dollar has made the cost of investing very high on the way to a depressed market for startups.
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Since Germany's last recession, in 1993, its companies have greatly increased their return on capital as they have shed unproductive workers and subsidiaries or moved to low-cost locations.
This is mainly due to the high levels of risk and uncertainty that come with new tech: private firms would generally rather seek out low-risk, low-cost alternatives (i.e. more efficient internal processes or capital goods) than to invest time and effort into developing high-risk, initially-high cost alternatives (i.e. hydrogen fuel cells).
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By putting such low-cost assets on the books, Global Marine has generated average return on capital of 29.5% a year over the past five years, first among the Forbes Energy Extractors.
American steel is really two industries: a group of low-cost, non-unionised mini-mills and an array of unionised, capital- and labour-intensive integrated steel producers.
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While all of the above represent relatively low cost ways into China, gaining an important share of the market will require an investment of capital and manufacturing in-country.
The wiki goes on to show examples of how it works when you invest a single sum, covers topics such as using a loss from one tax lot to offset the capital gains from another, donating low basis shares to a charity, and how the stepped-up cost basis works at death.
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