Also, in a flat basic food market, clothing sales increased 10%, and small electricals were up 24%.
There is a deeper basic for the market which relates to where profit margins stand currently for major corporations.
This actually poses something of a problem for one of the most basic theories of modern market finance.
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The most successful businesses are those that master the basic transactions of their market and execute them with reliability and excellence.
Much like the PC market, basic and feature mobile phone volumes are falling as consumers migrate not only to smartphones, but smartphones at low- and mid-tier price points.
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Meantime, basic materials led the market higher.
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Until now, the mobile hotspot market has given users essentially two basic payment plans, both of which are borrowed from the phone market: You can prepay for some fixed amount of data and re-up when you run out, or you can plop down a monthly fee for a capped per-month allocation of bits.
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And this basic part of the car market is not just confined to the emerging world.
After years of regulators pushing network competition, basic economics is now making market consolidation inevitable.
As for the sentiment that it is not merely the international capital market but the basic principles of capitalist economics that need to be questioned, one can only despair that the thought has even surfaced.
Basic materials stocks led the market lower.
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Basic material stocks pushed the market higher.
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The basic idea behind Dover Street Market was believing that by gathering various kinds of creation together, and giving free reign, the "fashion of now" would become chaotic, and within that chaos, through synergy and accident, each brand would shine more brightly and with a different power than when all alone.
"You're seeing some pretty decent action in the overall market, with today's leadership coming from the basic materials sector, " said Robert Pavlik, chief market strategist at Banyan Partners.
It was a big step away from pure, basic research, sniffed some dons, but Friend argued it was the best way to drive his technology to market and fund improvements in the basic science along the way.
The notion of reasonably widespread entrepreneurial opportunity underpins basic faith in the free-market system.
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Our basic idea is motivated by the stock market performance of minority investors in publicly held subsidiaries in Japan.
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China, which sees basic chemicals as strategic, is undeterred by market signals.
This is a basic tenet of capitalism at work: the market simply refused to sustain the oil prices that had ballooned so quickly.
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The basic idea of the carbon credits or permits market is that in order to emit CO2 (or equivalents) you need to have a permit to do so.
Analysts said the device could help Nokia regain its competitive edge against Samsung at the low end, and get a piece of the India's fast-growing market of consumers trading up from basic mobiles.
We can do the basic research either way: we want the market as that is what gets the new drugs, the new treatments, the new spiffiness, into the hands of people who use it to do interesting and useful things.
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Good research is one thing, but it takes a lot of profits from the few approved drugs that make it to market to pay for all the basic research and failed development candidates that lie beneath the surface and out of view of most people.
Chronic budget constraints also threaten plans to build more farm-to-market roads, boost education and improve basic health care.
For the stock market, with its steady rise since the start of 2012 and in January 2013, it should pick up more steam this year, powered by a buildup of basic optimism as opposed to a fear-based market attitude.
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Levy senior used basic economic statistics to predict the direction of the stock market.
The next 40 pages explains some basic investments, like bonds, commercial paper and money market funds.
The basic causes of the Great Recession began in the Housing Market and the community banks on Main Street.
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