Such returns are something her market-astute label manager, Madonna, wasn't going to miss out on.
In the 1880's, Charles H. Dow and Edward D. Jones were financial reporters known for their astute market analyses, but it is Dow, the first editor of The Wall Street Journal, who is credited with creating the averages that mirror the whims of capital with such apparent authority.
Some time ago, an astute market observer who was also into psychology, Fibonacci and other nonobvious effects on the market noted the "55-Day Rule".
A bargain home represents inefficiency in the market, and the astute investor can take advantage.
But is this doubling up just an astute marketing ploy?
Partly this is a result of astute marketing by Spanish-language mass media.
Endowing the crus bourgeois with a new sense of prestige could prove an astute marketing ploy.
Or was it "an astute marketing strategy" that worked in her – and her publishers' – favour?
Brubaker, the Diamondbacks executive, called the $5 tickets part of "a very astute marketing plan" by the Yankees.
This was reinforced by astute marketing, using mainstream advertising as well as non-traditional methods, such as the product placement of futuristic gadgets in "Matrix Reloaded", a cult movie.
The series of Lady Dior films, starring the French actress Marion Cotillard, are astute marketing tools, particularly for regions like Asia — highlighted in the recent "Lady Blue Shanghai" by David Lynch.
