Despite a credit boom, which has seen a big increase in low earners' unsecured debt relative to their income, the doorstep lending market is flat.
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"I'm a big advocate of low fees, and the new regulations have caused an extra layer of fees, " says Richard Nichols, a high-school teacher in suburban Chicago.
While historically low mortgage rates are translating into big savings for homeowners, those same low monthly payments are masking a troubling trend.
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Our big cities are very secure and their crime rates are very low relative to other big cities all over the world.
Be wary of REITs that have bet big on suburbs with low barriers to entry for developers.
One big one is the low return, high risk of these investments, which could discourage widespread participation.
Some of them growled about the big corporations for wanting low prices no matter what happens to the farmers.
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This will favour big Western firms and low-cost Chinese ones, especially those with friendly support from China's state-controlled lenders.
Even ad-hoc query tools such as Dremel have been introduced to support Big Data environments with low latency.
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The evening's big surprise was the low scores for Jacques Torres Chocolate, the chocolatier of choice for many New Yorkers.
Though strong balance sheets are preferable, big cash balances and low money market rates can be a drag on return on equity.
The two big net winners, Texas and Florida, had no such taxes, and most of the other big gainers were relatively low-tax states.
Big Pharma could integrate low production cost in China with the quality control of Western medicine and tap a huge domestic demand, Li foresees.
The other consequence is many of the people who lose their own setup are eventually absorbed in the big box system as low-skill employees getting paid the bare minimum wage.
She uses aftertax salary--no big sacrifice, given her low bracket--to fund a Roth individual retirement account.
Consumers, finally, are taking on some debt for big-ticket purchases at low interest rates.
We're suporting the research base in a big way, especially in low carbon.
But the big rally off the June low has the Dow now recovered and 2% above its May 1 peak.
More will be shifting from the high-priced, low-growth big metros for opportunity cities such as Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth, Raleigh and Charlotte.
Big studies have shown that low HDL levels may be as important as high levels of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) in causing heart attacks.
And if the buyer thinks he is sitting in a cheap car, he will buy only if rewarded with low prices and big incentives.
The fund focuses on 8 themes: gaming, luxury goods, big box retail, popular low-cost food brands, rising incomes, real estate, healthcare and, lastly, the internet.
Its lead in hybrid technology is under threat as other big carmakers scramble to bring low- and zero-emission vehicles to market before low-carbon legislation bites.
The downgrades come amid rising concern about the political and economic turmoil in Greece, and the potential ripple effect of that crisis on nations like Spain and Italy that are struggling with low growth and big debts.
During times when oil prices are low, a big company like Exxon Mobil can come in with all its financial strength and its technology and offer these poor countries, such as Angola, a deal that's hard to beat.
We have to realize that the market has already factored in a substantial economic recovery with its big bull market last year off of the March 2009 bottom, and in its big rally from the July low last year.
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Levels of trust are so abysmally low that some big governments would basically like something like a Cold War spy swap, with Mr Klaus and a pen poised at one end of a foggy bridge, and the council conclusions ready for approval at the other.
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