The thought ten years ago was that they would mostly be charged at night, filling in the valley of low off-peak demand, and thus allowing more kilowatt-hours to flow across the same infrastructure.
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The Chinese stock market is at an 11-month low, down 24% since its peak last July.
Finally, the CBOE Market Volatility Index confirmed the peak at its double low in the 30-area, as it did a round-trip back below a few key long-term moving averages and the 20-Level.
Unemployment is close to a 20-year low of 5.6%, down from a peak of 11% in 1992, or 8% when Mr Howard first took office in 1996, yet inflation remains well-behaved.
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Anything to goose the perilously low occupancy rates--50% at the Indian hotels, when the peak-season rate is 80% to 90%.
If and when oil exports and trade imbalances next reach a cyclical peak, it may make sense to park surpluses in low-risk assets until the boom subsides.
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So you know real time, if you are a low mileage, safe driver who only travels during off peak times, your trade-in price will be more.
The glut exacerbates the inefficiency by forcing the utilities to rely on dirtier and less efficient sources of power to meet peak demand rather than simply redirecting surplus power from low demand to high-demand markets.
Weaker-than-expected off-peak season demand and a global supply crunch of HDDs coupled with low demand for PC DRAM chips and the oversupply of mobile DRAM impacted profit margins, in which the memory portion saw its revenue slip to 4.89 trillion won.
U.S. manufacturers now produce three and a half times more output per worker hour than they did in the peak employment year of 1979, in part because offshoring has sent many low-value jobs overseas, but also because automation has replaced lots of factory jobs.
The iShares 20-year bond ETF TLT declined 13% from its peak last summer to its low last month.
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