"This looks like the last gasp at the end of a pricing cycle, " said John E . Jacobson of Jacobson & Associates, a steel consulting firm in Swarthmore, Pa . " The increases might hold in coated and other high-value products, but the hot-rolled situation is unclear ."
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"This looks like the last gasp at the end of a pricing cycle, " said John E . Jacobson of Jacobson & AMP; Associates, a steel consulting firm in Swarthmore, Pa . " The increases might hold in coated and other high-value products, but the hot-rolled situation is unclear ."
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While the company traditionally let others pioneer a new market IBM released its first commercial computer a year after Remington Rand's UNIVAC in 1951, but within five years had 85 % of the market the personal-computer development and pricing cycles were much faster than for mainframes, with products designed in a few months and obsolete quickly.
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Isaac Xenitides, an analyst at Fitch Ratings, said it was fortunate for Shell that its recent problems have come at a flush time for the industry . " The high oil-price cycle gives this company enormous financial flexibility, " Xenitides said . " This doesn't create value for shareholders, but it does allow Shell to buy into any project that they think makes sense ."
