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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"price trends"”.
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Natural Language Financial Forecasting: The South African Context
… of goods and services. Factors that affect the price movement of stocks include company news and performance, macroeconomic factors, market sentiment as well as unforeseeable events. The conventional prediction approach is based on historical numerical data such as price trends and trading …
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Topics in Market Microstructure
… which includes high frequency trading (HFT), on price discovery process and volatility. First chapter considers the regulatory debate concerning HFT which led the European Commission to suggest implementing a financial transaction tax (FTT) of 0.1% on all stock transactions. A simulation of pure …
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The role of the non-oil minerals sector in the economic growth of Saudi Arabia
… fact that oil is an exhaustible resource, the price of which fluctuates considerably, and is produced in an enclave economy, the Saudi Arabian government had recognised the needs to diversify their economy away from oil as the main source of income. Since the oil price crashed in 1986, the …
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Consumers' use of an expected future price as a reference: An investigation of the psychological and contextual antecedents
Consumers often use an expected future price of a product as a reference for judging the current price, and consequently make purchase decisions such as whether to buy and how much to buy. Extant literature has acknowledged the use of an expected future price of a product in formation of price …
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Econometric analysis of the historical growth and volatility trends of various metals
… activity. By studying historical production and price trends, boundaries of feasible growth can be determined and, dependent on a firm's goals, materials that may require added recyclability, substitution, or engineering efficiency identified. Therefore, a contextual understanding of growth and …
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Dynamic modeling of Shenzhen's real estate market : understanding the oscillation and trend
… question whether Shenzhen's real estate property prices are driven by speculation and will experience "chronic cyclical instability" as seen in many other markets (Sterman, 2000). The real estate model introduced in this paper extends John Sterman's Commodity Model to accommodate the durable …
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An Analysis of Trends of Generic Drugs and Biologic Prices in the U.S.
<p><strong>Introduction:</strong> Drug prices are a significant problem for the US healthcare system. Generic and biosimilar market competition reduces drug and biologic prices, results in substantial savings, and improves patient access and outcomes. As the costs of healthcare and prescription …
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The Role of Energy in an Energy Constrained Economy
… high-income countries where economic output and price of electricity influence power consumption. These results suggest that energy subsidies as a policy for transfer payments, especially in middle income and energy deficit countries, has no upward pressure on electricity consumption; rather, it …
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Investigations on hydrodesulfurization reactions using slurry catalysts and supercritical water
… on January 1st 2020 and have led to increasing prices for fuels that comply with the sulfur regulations. On the other hand, high sulfur fuels exceeding the sulfur cap of 0.5% are declining in price, also affecting refineries margins when selling high sulfur vacuum residue. Developing a solution …
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Using international diversification to enhance predicted equity index performance: a South African perspective
… that it is not possible to forecast the future price of an asset based on the information contained in the historical prices of that same asset. Under this assumption, the market behaves as a random walk and as a result, price forecasting is impossible. Furthermore, financial forecasting is a …
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New Horizon in Mobile Communications Networks Planning
… phone having ability to play movies, maximum price paid for mobile phone that have ability to play movies, the rating of mobile phone service quality, problems during the usage of internet on mobile phone handset, daily usage of mobile phone services, and the satisfaction in mobile phone …
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Essays on Bubbles in Asset Market Experiments
… to all subjects; however, bubble and crash price patterns with active transactions are found in the markets. The bubbles are found robustly in the market. Many studies have tried to explain and eliminate the bubbles in the experimental asset market. One of the most powerful ways to eliminate …