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Cook blamed the ongoing trade war , and said the Chinese economy is weaker than expected. And yes, as it does everywhere, at a certain point price matters, as evidenced by the fact that the newer hardware models, such as the iPhone XS Max, retail for north of $1,000, while other Apple models have a price tag of around $300 or so.

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OCTOBER 8, 2018

The price per calorie of fresh produce is much higher than that of potato chips, and that price differential gets more notable the fresher and healthier the product is. Whole Foods was colloquially called “Whole Paycheck” for a reason — eating organic comes with a very high price tag.

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AUGUST 28, 2019

But can Costco do well in China, and in the midst of a trade war that still seems to be escalating? China trade war, but the competitive presence of China-based commerce and payment ecosystems such as Alibaba – which, the newspaper notes, “operates brick-and-mortar Hema stores that integrate online and offline shopping.”

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JUNE 8, 2018

percent on the news and, overall, stock indexes declined with the Apple news coupled, with fears of a trade war just before the G7 summit in Canada, Reuters reported. Additionally, demand for the iPhone X might have soured due to its price tag: It retails for around $1,000. Shares of Apple fell by 1.5

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AUGUST 28, 2019

But can Costco do well in China, and in the midst of a trade war that still seems to be escalating? China trade war, but the competitive presence of China-based commerce and payment ecosystems such as Alibaba — which, the newspaper notes, “operates bricks-and-mortar Hema stores that integrate online and offline shopping.”

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MARCH 29, 2017

In the latest twist of the MoneyGram acquisition bidding war, Euronet is ramping up for a fight with Ant Financial. As the bidding war continues to heat up, strategies from both sides have emerged. In a new report , Euronet has urged the U.S. If MoneyGram pulls out of its deal with Ant, it will cost the company.

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MAY 14, 2018

That deal came with a price tag of $4.65 The move could have set up an ‘us’ versus ‘them’ war in the ranks,” Block wrote in Forbes. billion , and Symantec brought in several of the company’s executives.

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DECEMBER 9, 2017

Star Wars Winter Gear. Options abound in gifts for the Star Wars fan out there. We can’t even pretend there is a dearth of high-end Star Wars stuff out there, either. The two big limitations are price and availability. They’re still available on eBay, of course, but at double the price.

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OCTOBER 24, 2019

The retailer is also planning events based on popular culture, with Pokemon, Frozen and Star Wars on the roster. As many as a fifth of consumers say their holiday budgets will be reduced this year if tariffs increase the prices of items more than 10 percent.

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MAY 25, 2016

After just five days, Payne’s Star Wars geek-out has racked up just short of 142 million views and 3.2 Of course, one excitable Star Wars fan uploading a video of her Chewbacca-fied self isn’t retailers’ ideal conception of contextual commerce , but as the landscape stands now, it might be what they should aim for.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Though Samsung normally eschews big price tag acquisitions in favor of building capacity internally — in this case upper-level management seems to have determined that it would be both faster and more efficient to make an acquisition and get into the market now. This deal must be approved by Harman’s shareholders.

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JANUARY 16, 2021

Car technology was an expected part of CES in 2021, as vehicles are a big part of the big show every year — particularly for the last few years, as consumer interest in connected car technology has spiked alongside a growing enthusiasm for a possible future where cars can drive themselves and the humans just tag along for the ride.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

And Joshua added tags to that, and so you could browse things by tags. And as a result, if we think the price is too high, we can just find something else. Unless we really course correct very hard, very dramatically, and by dramatically, I mean, the level of government activation that we had in World War II.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

It can even be washed just like a regular jean jacket, just be sure to remove the flexible snap tag from the sleeve first. But, for those who are always in a rush to try the latest and greatest tech, $350 doesn’t seem like too bad of a price tag. The Verge claims “Google is going to war against the iPhone.” billion.

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JUNE 4, 2018

On June 4, 1949 – 78 years ago today – the miracle at Dunkirk was completed, despite the fact that at the time, reversing the tide of war and rescuing the nearly 400,000 trapped British troops seemed like an impossibility. Reversals, no matter how surprising, are always possible. Some took to Twitter.

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DECEMBER 28, 2019

As for what people bought, it ran the gamut from smartphones, laptops, TVs, smart speakers , Barbie dolls, gaming systems, Star Wars toys (but no Baby Yoda! ), books, pajamas — the usual suspects. But not every over-the-top gift can be measured by the size of the price tag. But not everyone stays within the realm of the usual.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

It would likely not be fair to say that Apple has rethought its status as a brand built around premium pricing. The iPhone Pro starts at $699, the iPhone 11 Pro at $999 and the iPhone 11 Pro Max at $1,099 — consistent with the pricing of their previous flagship releases. a month — far below Netflix, Amazon or even Disney+ pricing.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 11, 2023

And that seems to be where indexing really took off and where people became a lot more price sensitive. You can put those tags in there but still take a professionally managed strategy… RITHOLTZ: Right. He had the ones from World War I, World War II. I assumed people would see that and steer away.

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MAY 23, 2023

Then suddenly in the ensuing weeks, you get tagged to be CEO. GREW: And at that point Lehman share price had its first sort of crumbs moment. 100 percent sure that we need, and there is a war for the best talent. RITHOLTZ: I — I have been looking forward to this for a while. GREW: It is nothing short of surreal.

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JULY 12, 2017

As has been widely reported , Ant Financial had been in a brief bidding war for MoneyGram with Euronet, and raised its offer to the $1.2-billion billion price tag. Within that 75-day timeframe, firms have time to work with the panel to address any outstanding security issues.

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AUGUST 14, 2018

As the world knows, Elon Musk sent a short missive – over Twitter, where all the missives are short – that he was considering a go-private deal, with an attendant price tag of about $72 billion, or at $420 a share, where the stock ended last Monday at around $356. The biggest splash may have been made with Tesla.

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MARCH 14, 2017

This would be due to the fact, the reasoning goes, that Ant Financial may look for another deal, should it lose out to Euronet, or walk away, or even if a bidding war erupts and the price offered gets too rich — and considering that MoneyGram shares were up 25 percent at this writing, one wonders how rich is too rich.

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JANUARY 27, 2017

And this was in the wake of a report that a baker’s dozen Wall Street firms lifted price targets on the name. a share that it shakes out to is about a 12 percent premium to MoneyGram’s trading price at the close of business on Wednesday (Jan. Structured data initiatives are doing well. Bitcoin (More Scrutiny). The $13.25

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OCTOBER 10, 2023

Can I just tag along? So while they’re covering a war, what was that like? 00:32:30 And this becomes a war in the end. I think I said this on 60 Minutes, that we’re now in kind of a story war that about the story, right? It very consciously, I knew when I wrote this book, I was gonna be in a war.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Bank of America decided they wanted to sell their branch in Lima, Peru, and the price tag was a million dollars. And they go, you know, you told me that there were no other jobs out there, that we didn’t have to pay this price. Is it going to be treated like Germany after World War I or Germany after World War II?

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 25, 2023

If I’m here from a roll up or an aggregator and I tell you, now’s the time for you to sell to me because prices are at all-time record highs, right? Control is like the big tug of war that’s happening nowadays. RITHOLTZ: There’s no price fixing, so I guess it escapes that way. RITHOLTZ: Oh, really?

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DECEMBER 26, 2023

Because if you, you can see a price pattern, you know, you can see a trend. I will occasionally throw in second derivative type of indicators of price, like, you know, an RSI or, 00:14:37 [Speaker Changed] Or relative strength indicator. Meaning that sentiment needs to start to confirm price action. Oh, really?

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APRIL 2, 2024

I mean the corn laws, which were, you know, you had an aristocratic land owning class who passed the corn laws to keep the price of grain up. He wrote a book called It’s the Price is Stupid Sort of Idea. So then what happens is the pharma companies, if they wanna sell it in Britain, they reduce the price to meet that cutoff.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 16, 2023

He launches Wallstrip in the early 2000s and before you know it, he’s in the middle of a bidding war with a bunch of different people, theStreet.com and CBS wanting to buy it. And Gulf War breaks out. I can either just give it away for free, which, you know, I started the cash tag dollar sign… RITHOLTZ: Right. I told you.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2022

And we literally talk about during the show, I got a tag to present to the SEC, about their new single stock product. And you know, there’s a reason why artists offer their tickets at affordable prices, to their fans, and these rentiers in the middle are abusive. Why don’t you speak to him? And they said, “We already do.”

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OCTOBER 3, 2023

They had sent, set up a gold arbitrage desk, meaning [ Barry Ritholtz ] 00:04:46 That the slight difference in prices between the two exchanges, they would help bring ’em into line and maybe pocket a few cents on each exchange. So there were these five plus dollar disparities in the price of gold. Gary Cohn ] 00:04:54 Exactly.

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