It took advantage of a shift in demand towards smaller container ships.
The acceleration in rents may have resulted in part from a shift in demand toward rental housing as families found homeownership less financially attractive.
As the country grows and the average Chinese sees an increase in buying power, we expect to see a growing shift in demand from 2G to 3G smartphones.
As the country grows and the average Chinese buyer sees an increase in buying power, we expect to see a growing shift in demand from 2G to 3G smartphones.
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As the country grows and the average Chinese buyer sees an increase in purchasing power, we expect to see a growing shift in demand from 2G to 3G smartphones.
Lucent botched a shift in demand to cutting-edge gear for fiber optics, failing to recognize telecom companies' hunger for bandwidth and then reacting too slowly to stop them from defecting to archrival Nortel Networks.
This raises serious doubts about claims that biofuels account for a big shift in global demand.
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One explanation may be that China's rise has resulted in a bigger shift in investment demand in the rest of Asia than elsewhere in the world.
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When you say that there's been a notable shift towards supporting demand and job growth, are you seeing that from Chancellor Merkel and other members of the German delegation?
Microsoft also has offered price breaks on its Windows software meant for a new class of simple PCs known as netbooks and seems to be responding to a market shift in consumer demand toward smaller tablets.
Ford has said it must restructure its business to account for a permanent shift in consumer demand toward cars and crossovers, and away from the large trucks and sport-utility vehicles that had been a staple of profits in past years.
The problem for Apple is that several sources are now claiming that the iPhone range is undergoing a radical mix shift, with demand moving towards older models with less memory.
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The decline of manufacturing, the rise of high tech, and the profound changes in technological landscape are behind the shift away from a demand for less educated workers toward those more educated.
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The shift reflects both a slowdown in demand in the U.S. market and continued growth in Chinese PC sales.
The television and film industries are motivated to be part of this shift to a content on-demand-on-all-devices-type reality that is evolving every day.
The shift in demand for skills has a long way to go, as our special report on the future of work explains.
This shift caused a substantial decrease in semiconductor demand in 2012, as the semiconductor content of a smartphone or a media tablet is far less than that of a PC.
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Now the ADB is arguing that, with demand from the advanced economies for its manufactures unlikely to pick up strongly soon, Asia needs to shift to a model based more on rising domestic demand and relying more on its service industries.
We believe a shift from PCs to alternate growth segments will help drive demand as well as stabilize declining DRAM prices in the future.
He added that the shift towards smartphones and tablets had led to a rise in demand for such centres as consumers made use of remote computers to provide cloud-based services.
We believe Windows Pricing for PC Makers will decline gradually over the forecast period due to a shift from premium Windows to lower-priced versions driven by higher demand in emerging markets and demand for lower priced editions for netbooks.
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It is one of the most powerful instruments, perhaps the most powerful instrument, that China has at its disposal in the near term to both counter inflationary pressures, which is a very high priority for them, and also to shift to domestic, demand-led growth.
In any case, the holy grail in China could shift away from property development as the country's consumers demand a better life.
It has been clear for some time that, if Brazil is to continue to grow at a decent clip, the policy emphasis needs to shift from twiddling the dials of demand to tackling the high cost of supply.
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In these circumstances, a cheaper dollar will helpfully loosen overall monetary conditions, and also shift the composition of demand from consumer spending towards exports.
One big reason to expect such a shift is that the very cheap lease finance that manufacturers have relied on to stoke demand for their more costly cars, especially in America, Germany and Britain, is probably a thing of the past.
One argument carried through many of these articles deserves more scrutiny: the notion that the effective cost of auto transportation will drop so dramatically that there will be a substantial shift away from car ownership to reliance on third-party fleets, available on demand.
Those three businesses have built impressive market share by recognizing how patterns of entertainment consumption are shifting away from programmed, scheduled packages and toward on-demand, a la carte snacking and making it easy for consumers to incorporate that shift into their own lives.
If demand for tax preferred qualifying dividends were to shift partly over to REITs as this tax advantage is removed, that increased demand should be a tail wind for REIT share values.
China has benefited as foreign companies shift manufacturing to take advantage of its cheap workforce, and as a pick up in global growth boosts demand for its products, such as raw steel.
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