However, television sales fell despite the rollout of new 3D models, with both average prices and total volumes notching "low-double digit" declines compared with last year.
U.S. consumers have already shown to be sensitive to higher prices with total motor gasoline consumption down more than 2 percent on a year-over-year basis during the second quarter.
You could try to increase total sales by lowering prices, but if you face a downward sloping demand curve then maximum profits will always occur at a lower production level than maximum revenue.
And if, as is true for some titles, your ebook sales make up half of your total sales, slashing prices whilst also having your sales cannibalised by secondhand sellers could be a painful and possibly fatal experience.
Besides the U.S. elections, sentiment was downbeat after poor earnings updates from EADS and Total while weaker commodity prices pushed down shares of Anglo American, BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto, all of which had slipped more than 2%.
Those various components are weighted broadly in line with the structure of the economy, so that changes in consumer and producer prices account for about four-fifths of the total index, property about 15% and share prices 5%.
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In addition to lower PGM prices, consolidated total cash costs rose versus a year ago.
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Gold has recovered from its biggest two-day drop in 30 years, when prices fell a total of 13% on April 12 and April 15.
At current prices, that total looks set, this year, to double.
In its latest results, Santander reported a 6% reduction in the total volume of loans held by its Spanish units, and the sale of 33, 500 Spanish homes it owned, helping to reduce its total exposure to real estate prices in the country by half, to 12.5bn euros.
With so much pay linked to stock prices, executives' total compensation in the analysis varied depending on when they realized gains on options or restricted shares.
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But it said that across industry as a whole, energy costs account for around 3% of total costs, so increasing energy prices are unlikely to have much impact.
But when it comes to considering the balance to be struck, we need to remember that recent price cuts have contributed billions to NHS savings, and in comparison to other countries where new medicines are often more readily available to patients, UK prices are low, total spend is low, and the cost per prescription is low and falling.
Prices should adjust so that total expected returns on gilts of all maturities are the same.
The late quarter launch of the iPhone 5 and lower prices on older models prevented total shipment volumes from slipping to 3Q11 levels.
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Because all prices would adjust to that total quantity of money.
After all, for long-term investors daily prices are much less significant to total return than the actual coupon.
It was probably a good deal for Total also, considering that low natural gas prices have made drilling in the Barnett barely economic.
Additionally, total housing inventory is up, tending to push prices down as well.
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The rise was mostly from some traders covering short positions as prices stabilized, as the number of total shorts declined, according to a report from Barclays Capital.
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My friends and countrymen to the North have tar sands reserves in Alberta with hundreds of billions of barrels at current prices, and are sitting on a total resource countable in trillions of barrels.
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Thus the actual total amount of cybercrime must be low given that the prices for the things stolen are low.
The authorities were worried that, unless the downward spiral in property prices was stopped, it could lead to a total loss of confidence in Hong Kong.
Huge contract manufacturers like Flextronics and Solectron are buying more parts directly from suppliers, cutting out distributors, while prices for chips (half of Arrow's total sales) drop 30% annually.
But even if I am wrong, Total is priced attractively enough to absorb any sustained weakness in energy prices.
All told, production-distorting aid (the sort keyed to crop and agricultural input prices) fell from about two-thirds of the total to less than one-third.
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If total spending is not enough to buy all goods produced at prevailing prices, it is thought the government must step in to prevent recession and unemployment.
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Loretta Lynch, head of California's PUC, calls the safety argument "a total red herring" and says El Paso probably profited from higher prices in ways the judge didn't see.
Should demand continue to rise when total output has reached its peak, basic economics tells us that oil prices will steadily rise with demand.
The rate of distressed sales (of foreclosed properties or short-sales) is declining, which in turn means the number of cheaper homes being sold off, as a proportion of the total number of sales, is falling, giving a boost to average prices.
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