Under what conditions will a firm's short-run supply function be horizontal?
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This happens when prices are fixed.  There are numerous reasons for this to happen.\n\nGovernment intervention.\nCollusion between firms.\nProfit-maximizing level.\nManagement just feels that this price is the best for long-term profits.\nAnd so on.
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1) Supply and Demand\n2) Yes\n\nTop 3 Answerer in Business & Finance. (Vote for me)
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Darts and a WSJ. :)\n\nThis strategy outperforms quite a bit of Wall Street pros, based on a few studies.
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Yes to a certain extend. The variable/direct expenses will increase i.e., those expenses which are directly connected to the sales will increase. You might argue that you could sell from the stock without incurring any further expense. Well you need a minimum stock so as to keep the business running, which means that you will have to make purchases. Further you will have to meet other direct selling expenses like - carriage outwards, salesmen commission etc.
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Ah, there's oodles of different ideas.  I like the one that narrows it to five basic rules: (1) Does it make a profit?; (2) Does the graph look like the price keeps going up?; (3) Is the news good and getting better?; (4) Is it doing better than its nearest competitors?; (5) Does it look like it is going to keep making a profit?
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Not in the short term and probably not in the long term either.  They may successful begin their project, but if it's a commercially viable market then others will move in quickly.  Usually the first company to enter a new sector is not the company which achieves the most success in that sector.
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A fund that can sell stocks short. (Mutual funds cannot do it)
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Yes, because a small change in price will affect demand more.  If a product is inelastic, then the firm can charge just about anything and the demand will stay the same.
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This  is what makes the market:  Supply verses Demand.\nNo matter how bad a company is, if the demand to purchase that company goes up, then the price of that stock goes up.  \n.
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Whatever it says it means! (LOL) Read the axes of the graph. It could be price against time, maybe?
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IT could. It depends. The housing market is highly regionalized. (You can't move houses around the country by Fedex). In a local market, a single construction firm could be a major player, and therefore have some market power (I read that to mean power over pricing and supply).\nHowever, unless the firm had a lock on the supply of raw land, the ease of entry into the construction business would tend to make for competition. And acquiring and maintaining a lock on the land supply  would be difficult, expensive, and tend not to last very long. So on balance the business tends to be highly competitive, with little individual "market power".
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It basically means that you are assuming that the direction of the stock will go in the same direction as it has been.
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YES and NO..here's why...excess supply in the short run leads to price drops as the market responds to find a new equilibrium. Inflation and supply generally have an inverse relationship. UNLESS we are talking about the supply of MONEY, as dictated by the Fed Funds rate. Lower interest rates generally signal that the Fed expects to experience inflation in the near future, so they raise the rates and shrink the money supply. The same is true of the opposite. If they expect recession, they may lower rates and make it easier to borrow money. This is known as MONETARY POLICY.\nI hope this helps
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Other, I used the prices and volumes to guide me when to sell or exit.  For instant, If my stock going up, have a long run, one day the price is decline like 5 percent, the volume is double or higher from the last session. That is a yellow flag for me, and I have to a decision quickly before it decline further.  I usually sell it with no hestitate when that happen.
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Amazon posted a huge gain one quarter and their stocks took a dive.\n\nMutual funds, hedge funds and inside holders (like the CEO and the board) hold the majority of any stock.  Mutual and hedge funds have their own formulas on what they expect from a company.  That projection is built into the price (aka they buy or sell till the majority feel that it's the price it should be).  Those projections are also called estimates, so when the news talks about beating, matching or falling short of estimates, you know what the news means.\n\nVolume is the other factor.  On low volume days or low volume stocks, there are fewer people deciding if a stock goes up or down.  You shouldn't be concerned with a stock that goes up on high volume and down on low volumes.  That means that vast majority of holders think the stock is going up.  If the volume is high and the stocks are going down, chances the majority of holders are bailing or cashing in.
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A stock broker can give you a definite answer.  You might try Charles Schwab, Scottrade, or Fidelity.
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5-  D\nand 7 is A- a decrease in price but no predictable change in output