In this high-tech information age few look to the most basic industries as sources of national economic power.
Basic industries that soak up labour, such as textiles and leathers, are in relative decline.
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Privatizations in basic industries were undoing an arrangement by which freight shippers simply passed along uncompetitive rail rates to the government.
The richest sectors are Basic Industries at 19.1% overvalued, Oils-Energy are 16.3% overvalued, and Multi-Sector Conglomerates are 9.5% overvalued.
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With Basic Industries, Energy and Public Utilities overvalued, stocks are no longer cheap.
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Stocks are not fundamentally cheap as twelve of sixteen sectors are overvalued, with Basic Industries the most overvalued by 19.2%.
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Basic industries have revived, our auto industry is number one in the world again for the first time since the 1970s.
In three decades at FORBES, she has carved out specialties in finance and basic industries, two avenues that brought her to Jon Huntsman Sr.
In this way, Obama differs from Bill Clinton, who after all recognized the need for basic industries as governor of poor and rural Arkansas.
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Basic industries hang on, but they aren't in the region's vanguard.
Outside of China, it would be difficult for companies of this size and operating in basic industries to list, no matter how fast they are growing.
For their part, Western companies in slower growth economies are ready sellers, particularly those in basic industries that find it difficult to access Western capital markets.
They regard basic industries as central to their current prosperity.
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Agriculture still looks a big winner, and so do industrial materials, but it seems today there's relatively more demand in basic industries than for the finished goods that use them.
Basic industries is the cheapest sector at 9.5% undervalued.
When you look at major parts of the economy like technology, health care, basic industries, energy and even raw materials producers of copper, iron ore and chemicals, you find them flooded with cash.
Assuming the three-way merger goes ahead, the new group and its two nearest rivals combined will control a little over 10% of the market, paltry compared with the concentration in other basic industries.
The sectors that have become 10% or more overvalued are Auto-Tires-Trucks by 13.5%, Basic Industries by 27.2%, Consumer Staples by 10.0%, Industrial Products by 13.5%, Multi-Sector Conglomerates by 13.3%, Oils-Energy by 21.9%, Retail-Wholesale by 10.0% and Transportation by 10.7%.
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The company has been using questioning to reinvent itself and to re-think some of the basic challenges in its industries.
Such a program will bring basic research to upgrade existing technologies and industries.
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In the first place, improvements in manufacturing have disguised the lack of basic restructuring in other, less competitive industries such as construction and retail.
Basic admin skills are the same across different industries.
In fairness to consultants, basic business principals can certainly be applied across various industries.
So we desperately need to find ways of making basic chemical materials out of CO2 to keep the chemical industries ticking over.
Similarly, places like Kansas City and the Dakotas are looking to boost their basic rail and road networks to support export-heavy industries.
The company also supplies basic materials that are used by a wide variety of industries, which tells traders how other sectors may be faring.
Using a top-down approach, they might develop a basic forecast of the economy followed by an assessment of which industries hold the most promise.
And because our economic future depends on our leadership in the industries of the future, we are investing in basic applied research, and working to create the incentives to build a new clean energy economy.
Many of India's old industries, such as machine tools, general engineering and basic textiles, remain mired in inefficiencies and protectionism.
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