An increasing number of homes on the market have had their prices slashed, a recent report from online brokerage ZipRealty shows.
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Crude oil prices slashed earlier losses Thursday afternoon, following reports that Saudi police opened fire on protestors in the town of Qatif on the Persian Gulf, according to TradeTheNews.com.
That forced CIB to cut its prices and slashed its profits by about 20%.
Last year, Cipla also slashed prices in India on its cancer medicines by up to 63%.
Nearby, boutique owner Parvin Yonani said she's slashed prices by as much as 85 percent.
To that end, LG slashed prices by as much as 70% in December on all major products.
But that Christmas shopping season Wal-Mart slashed prices on toys, flat-screen televisions and other electronics as it warred with Target and Costco.
All of them have slashed prices on hardware to reach new customers.
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During the heart of the economic slump, many retailers slashed prices in hopes of luring cash-strapped consumers and ridding themselves of excess inventory.
That could be a safe bet given the slew of new announcements and slashed prices within an increasingly crowded smartphone and tablet field.
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However, same store sales fell 7.9% as hardware manufacturers slashed prices.
She slashed prices on Rite Aid's 1, 500 top-selling items by 20%, closed underperforming stores, remodeled others, adjusted the product mix by location and paid angry suppliers.
Comet, which has now ceased to exist, slashed prices in order to clear its remaining stock in the run-up to Christmas, after it went into administration.
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One night after dinner I drove to the outskirts of town, where the old shopping center faced off against the new mall in a battle of slashed prices.
Time your visit for the hour before closing - usually around 8 pm - when prices are significantly slashed on everything from packaged sushi to perfectly ripe Asian pears.
But even among existing products, companies like Amazon and Barnes and Noble are also looking to keep their respective Kindle and Nook products fresh through slashed prices.
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And they have not slashed prices for Hublot's watches, as they have with those of its rivals (watchmakers get only about a third of the final selling price of a watch).
The reason: As long-haul carriers desperately slashed prices to fill seats and spread expenses, the implied price each passenger pays per connecting leg has dropped relative to the distance traveled during that leg.
To fight the decline, International Speedway, the biggest track owner in the U.S., has slashed prices on some 15% of its seats by more than 40% in advance of the upcoming Daytona 500.
Data accumulated by Reuters on cellphone unit sales by each manufacturer indicate that Motorola actually lost about 1.1 percentage points of market share in the third quarter to Nokia which slashed prices to gain share.
But while Apple slashed prices for several iPod models in September, analysts worry that Apple will have to cut margins further still to counter everything from cheap, new laptops offered by the likes of Dell to new media-friendly, touch-screen handsets being readied by Nokia.
Data accumulated by Reuters on cellphone unit sales by each manufacturer indicate that Motorola actually lost about 1.1 percentage points of market share in the third quarter to Nokia (nyse: NOK - news - people ) which slashed prices to gain share.
Many shops in the Republic have slashed their prices to compete with their rivals in Northern Ireland.
Yet at the beginning of 2004 Nokia, the market leader, slashed its prices, putting Siemens under increasing pressure.
Manufacturers slashed PC prices, eliminating margins for middlemen like Merisel (nasdaq: MSEL - news - people ).
According to the several online reports, Intel has slashed the prices of its microprocessors by over 10% to achieve mainstream pricing which would help increase user adoption of Ultrabooks.
It also has slashed some prices and set plans to link some programs to Linux, even while trying to kill off the rival by telling customers it is risky, unreliable and a dubious bargain.
"More U.S. refineries are gaining access to lower-priced domestic and Canadian oils and passing these benefits on to their marketers and retailers in the form of slashed wholesale gasoline prices, " Lundberg said.
That was when the city authorities, in a bid to attract drivers of private cars off the road, slashed the ticket prices on the subway -- by more than half in some cases -- and introduced a flat fare of 2 Yuan (30 U.S. cents) with unlimited transfers.
Corn prices soared 34 percent after USDA slashed its yield projection 12 percent over a previous estimate.
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