How will Schulze justify to Best Buy management or shareholders a reported 30%-plus price cut on the offer?

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Commercial banks used their huge balance sheets to offer cut-price loans to companies in return for securing investment-banking mandates.

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Lenders offer new borrowers cut-price loans at the outset, which is possible only because these inducements are cross-subsidised by existing borrowers.

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Many working men's clubs have already realised that they have to offer more than cut-price beer, and the occasional stripper, if they are to compete with the theme bars and cheap, imported alcohol that now distract potential members.

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It's the fact that Huawei has the resources to cut margins to the bone and offer a top-of-the-range experience at a mid-market price which may prove more important.

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