The purchasing price index for manufactured goods went down by 2.4 percent year-on-year, and 0.1 percent decrease month-on-month.
The top online rental company offers students both new and used textbooks for anywhere from 25% to 80% off the retail purchasing price.
In the average in 2013, the PPI decreased 1.7 percent, year-on-year, the purchasing price index for manufactured goods went down by 1.8 percent year-on-year.
"I don't think the purchasing price is enough for those people who really feel a sense of betrayal, who had real emotions created by this book, " said Meyers.
The absence of price data creates particular difficulty for institutional investors that are required to mark their portfolios to market: investors in Mexico and South Korea have got around this by purchasing price quotes from independent vendors.
So, a better way of thinking about the volatility of gold and other commodity prices is to view it as a 40-year period of unprecedented volatility in the price or purchasing power of the dollar.
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While this is a significant sum, to be sure, if an apples- to-apples comparison were made, the price of purchasing and operating modern fighter aircraft wings or a class of surface ships or submarines would significantly exceed that associated with a ground-based NMD system.
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Every retailer fears the threat of shoppers visiting a store to check out a product, but then purchasing it at a cheaper price, online, from home.
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Rather than purchasing stock at the market price and actually delivering the shares, brokers can let each other's unfilled deliveries ride as part of a gentleman's agreement.
By the time new money and credit has passed through many hands, it has lost substantial value as prices are bid up, people find that their purchasing power lags behind consumer price increases, and their living standards fall.
When would an increase in purchasing power (due to falling price levels) be a problem?
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When their purchasing patterns were tracked along with price fluctuations, the researchers found that the people drink less soda the more expensive it becomes.
As excess liquidity often is tied to higher inflation, instead of sitting on short-term cash with no real earnings, investors have been purchasing commodities ahead of potential further price increases.
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Additionally, the market is pretty affluent and has a strong purchasing power, so the higher price point at release of the PS3 console was never a deterrent for strong sales.
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This price increase reduces the combined purchasing power of citizens by an amount equal to the new money created.
In simple terms, you can exercise your right to purchase the stock at the strike price (call away) with a Call and you have the right to sell the stock at any time (put to someone) at the strike price at any time by purchasing a Put.
The tool then computes the amount a consumer would save by purchasing the product at the most affordable listed price and lists the savings as a percentage.
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The Chinese economy is set to become as large as that of the US by around 2016 when assessed in purchasing power parity terms, which factor in price differences between countries, it added.
During peacetime, commodity standards (silver or gold) worked through market forces to achieve price stability, and thus safeguarded the purchasing power of money.
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For buyers interested in seeing but not purchasing such a product, noticing such a high price point could make much lower ones offered by the same merchant seem accessible, even reasonable.
At the same time, other Chinese have self-organized online to form purchasing groups with enough leverage to force down the price of, say, the new Toyota Yaris they each want to buy.
When pharma and device companies approach health systems to pitch their ideas for lowering the cost of healthcare, the conversation gets delegated to purchasing managers who just want to negotiate down the price of the drug or implant.
As I wrote last June, its value chain let Dell set its costs 14% below those of competitors like Compaq (that HP bought in 2002) while charging companies a 13% higher price because of the convenience its online purchasing process gave companies who could order PCs configured for their specific requirements.
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The Big Mac Index uses Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) in comparing the price of the ubiquitous Big Mac across countries relative to its price in the USA. PPP refers to the idea that exchange rates across two countries should be equal to the relative price of a basket of goods and services in both countries.
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The findings come from Swiss bank UBS' "Price and Earnings" survey that looks at purchasing power in 73 global cities.
While the mega-players continue to spend heavily on research, however, their new size gives them more purchasing muscle when buying lab equipment: Thermo may face more price resistance.
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While WIPO's report mainly focused on abuses in registering domain names -- with name "scalpers" often purchasing choice domain names and then selling them at a high price -- ICANN said that it needs to develop a more comprehensive policy regarding all intellectual property issues.
The share of people purchasing gift cards items that are almost always bought at full price increased to 25% from 22%.
You still need to invest with a focus on price appreciation if you want returns high enough to preserve your purchasing power.
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