But unlike Libya's abrupt disruption, the new sanctions are expected to affect oil markets only gradually.
These powerful forces manipulate the markets only to serve their own interests.
Second, Chilean firms and banks can tap international capital markets only if two bond-rating agencies rate their paper as high as Chile's own government bonds.
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Earlier this year, Communist China decided to offer a sovereign bond it had long planned to issue in New York in Europe's financial markets only.
Many have tried to tap overseas markets only to fail because of the cultural differences, government red tape (on both sides), and shipping logistics, just to name a few of the challenges.
The Sino-Forest case reveals that business is done in China through informal agreements with state or party officials, who grant access to licenses, resources, and markets only if they are paid under the table.
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Although the LG name has been a brand in most markets only for a decade or less, the company has come out with a few hits, including a 2006 steam washing machine, aimed at eco-minded consumers and designed to cut water and detergent usage.
In the end, our system only works -- our markets are only free -- when there are basic safeguards that prevent abuse, that check excesses, that ensure that it is more profitable to play by the rules than to game the system.
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Going frontier means adding lesser correlated assets to your portfolio, as the MSCI Frontier Markets Index shows 0.64 correlation to the developed markets and only 0.59 to the larger emerging markets in the EEM, according to Jackass Investing.
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However, their high end markets represent only a small portion of the total China market.
If not, markets will only benefit from discovering an idea which brings greater monetary stability.
But it would be a strange world in which markets went only in one direction.
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Meanwhile, European stock markets rallied only briefly in response to the rescue plan announcement, skeptical that it will be successful.
Facebook fired an acquisitions exec last February for buying its stock on secondary markets, only to see him pop up at Twitter.
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Within the big four emerging markets, only India equities did worse.
Even in technology-driven markets with only a few competitors, collusion is difficult.
But in the near-term, this is a good time to be an owner of financial assets especially equities as the markets are only too aware.
Facebook fired an acquisitions exec last February for buying its stock on secondary markets, only to see him pop up at Twitter this week.
Among the larger markets, only in Germany, where green parents prefer to give their kinder wooden toys, is there less enthusiasm for video games.
Trouble in the mortgage markets is only just now starting to seep into credit portfolios, and loan losses for the banking industry are expected to mushroom this year.
Most recently these policies have even caught the attention of the OECD, which linked overly regulated housing markets not only to the Great Recession, but to a continued slow economic recovery.
Instead, the President's Working Group on Financial Markets released only a vague set of guidelines and "principles" and left it largely up to banks, funds and the markets to sort out the details.
In a sign that the market pessimism seems concentrated on Japan, the most-recent selloff appeared to be contained to Tokyo stocks, as shares in other Asian markets fell only slightly and stocks were higher in Europe.
If it loosens policy while markets are only in the early stages of adjusting and before the economic risks are real, it will seem like a reward for banks and hedge funds that took on too much risk.
Regrettably, the prospect of potentially devastating consequences stemming from largely unchecked foreign access to our markets will only expand from here, barring the passage of S.1315 or a similar bill which institutes security-minded disclosure and transparency to inform and benefit U.S. investors, particularly those not on Wall Street.
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" Mr. Robinson added, "Regrettably, the prospect of potentially devastating consequences stemming from largely unchecked foreign government access to our markets will only expand from here -- barring the passage of S.1315 or a similar bill which institutes security-minded disclosure and transparency to inform and benefit U.S. investors, particularly those not on Wall Street.
Specifically, the federal government should stop protecting the pharmaceutical firms that sell their wares more cheaply in foreign markets, only to block the entrance of those drugs into the U.S. This isn't to suggest for one second that Big Pharma shouldn't achieve the highest profits possible on its innovations, but it is to say that Americans shouldn't be forced to subsidize the consumption of foreigners.
This lowers the cost of models for niche markets, the only source of growth in saturated markets, such as Europe, America and Japan.
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That put silver in second place for the strongest commodity futures markets, beaten only by orange juice.
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