(General Motors) TrueCar.com, which tracks and analyzes prices of new and used cars and trucks, announced Wednesday in a press release that it completed the acquisition of Carperks, an online service that provides prenegotiated lease rates and purchase prices on new cars for the employees of participating corporations.
He also analyzes prices and fundamental data going as far back as 1982 and has developed a stock-picking system based on which analytical tools work and which don't, depending on country, region or industry group.
Ms. Showalter, the former Washington state utility regulator, reached her conclusion about faster-rising rates for power in competitive markets by analyzing pricing data provided to the government's Energy Information Administration.
For example, in analyzing pricing moves, most respondents who were in Asia-Pacific shortened their time horizon to one year, whereas financial services firms expanded it to three to four years.
He also analyzed price elasticity, which led to, among other ideas, the "Laffer curve" of taxation.
Wal-Mart complained that it would have to analyze prices charged on more than 100 million prescriptions for 3,500 drugs.
Virtually every kind of information is analyzed — price, brand, color and so on.
Fiserv, the company that produces the monthly Case-Shiller Home Price Indexes, analyzed prices in 375 communities.
-Research and analyze price differences for a cavity filling during the past three decades 1970ss to present) and create a chart illustrating your findings.
"How do we explain these things?" asked Ken Baris, the president of Jordan Baris Realty, a company that recently developed a "hyperlocal" computer system for analyzing price trends by school district or neighborhood.
