Sentence examples for markup from inspiring English sources

And in an article in Economic and Political Weekly, an Indian journal, Rajiv Kumar of the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations and his colleagues note that rice retailers charged a markup of 12% over the wholesale price in December 2009, compared with 8% a year earlier.

The higher the markup, the greater the payment he receives from the lender.Consumer advocates fret that this process leaves the unsophisticated as subprime customers tend to be at the mercy of unscrupulous dealers.

To cap it all, pubs and eateries have to pay the same 80-90% markup for their booze as consumers do in the state-run stores.

Web services take this concept further, using standards based on XML (short for Extensible Markup Language).

This is because the web's main language, HTML (hypertext markup language), is essentially superficial.

He points out that fair-trade products often sell at no markup in retail stores, a matter explained away by retailers who claim they've achieved efficiency gains with fair-trade producers, allowing them to pay more for the product and still maintain their profit margins.

As a result, many cabbies stay home on days like today, and those who work will pass the markup to riders like me.

Now, officials are instituting a "zero markup" policy on drugs at hospitals, and cracking down on unnecessary prescriptions.

For years Russia has treated the region as its exclusive province, insisting on buying oil and gas at below-market rates through Soviet-era pipelines, while re-exporting it at a markup.

Once upon a time gold bulls had to pay a hefty markup to buy coins or had to purchase shares in gold-mining companies and hope that the management was competent.

The country is the world's largest producer of the oil, but one-third of its exports are sent in bulk to Italy where it is bottled and sold, often for a significant markup, under Italian labels.