wholesale
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This means that even if gas only generates 1% of overall electricity at a given time it can often set the overall wholesale price which gets paid to every type of generator.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
This would be by reducing the amount of time in each year that gas sets the wholesale electricity price.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
The decline in wholesale prices was helped by a drop in energy prices last month.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
The cost of partly finished goods and raw materials, however, both fell in June, perhaps a sign that wholesale inflation might continue to ease.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
Drays full of wholesale goods rumbled over the pavers, led by immense horses gusting steam into the murk above.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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Production, exports and wholesales of passenger cars in China all hit fresh highs in November compared with the same month in prior years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 8, 2025
While the company makes most of its money from direct sales at the moment, Yang expects its wholesales business to grow.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 9, 2022
To some extent, the board split reflected different levels of dependence on the imported supplies that Metropolitan wholesales to the Southland.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2018
But Jeff Kightlinger, general manager of the giant Metropolitan Water District, which wholesales water to the six counties of that megalopolis, said there is enough to last the year, even without more rain.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 9, 2014
Never sells apples in the orchard; wholesales, retails and peddles them.
From The Apple by Various
That’s not the narrative being wholesaled by the financial press and investment pundits.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2022
“In a normal situation, there’s some surplus that gets generated when you’re farming,” he said, explaining that the surplus would be wholesaled to other retailers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2021
He has brokered real estate deals in Florida, arranged bank loans in Venezuela, marketed industrial pumps in Thailand, wholesaled shoes in Panama, promoted a building-materials company to Mexican interests and advised transnational financial services firms.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 28, 2015
After that, I started a company that wholesaled mobile phones.
From New York Times ● Oct. 15, 2011
Marketing: In our large apple-growing districts the crop is generally wholesaled, either in the orchard or subject to delivery at the railroad, generally in barrels.
From The Apple by Various
Margins for machinery and equipment wholesaling rose 3.5% month over month in April.
From Barron's ● May 13, 2026
Jefferies also expects Sigma to make improvements in its wholesaling business.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026
After the public sector, the wholesaling, retailing, hotels and restaurants sector showed the strongest regular annual growth rate.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2025
By the 1930s, the Mayers had expanded into jewelry wholesaling and made more than 100 street clocks for customers in multiple states, said Mendez.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 2, 2024
Each Forest is going to be a big and complicated business, like railroading or wholesaling.
From The Rules of the Game by White, Stewart Edward
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