And yet fixed-rate mortgages are still rather common, and two attempts to build a market in CPI futures have fizzled.
It warned that more work was needed to build a market economy.
With this in mind, advisors and investors can build a market momentum portfolio that helps strike an optimal balance for clients when it comes to transparency, consistency and control.
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Some executives question whether it will be possible to build a market beyond a few thousand users. (Prima says it plans to install its systems in 250, 000 homes within five years.) Others say the high price would create an exclusive, super-premium niche market without cutting into existing sources of revenue.
But nobody has any idea whether there will be enough such people to build a viable market.
Buying or partnering with a Chinese company can help level the playing field, enabling a multinational to build a leading market position.
The Jets, by mentioning Tebow, could also be trying to build a trade market for him since most believe New York will end up cutting him.
Beijing is seeking to reduce the economy's reliance on bank lending and to build a competitive market that would require companies to borrow at different rates, depending on their credit quality.
With its FotoShow Digital Imaging Center, Iomega (nyse: IOM - news - people) is apparently hoping to cash in on the exploding popularity of digital photography and build a new market for its 250-megabyte Zip disks.
And, as officials would admit, the demands go to a fundamental disagreement about the best way to build a competitive single market - and a successful European economy.
Couple these with a strong safety net and you start to build a functioning healthcare market instead of the mangled thing we have now and call a market.
Chinese companies' push into the bond market comes amid Beijing's efforts to wean businesses off bank loans and to build a competitive credit market that would better reflect the cost of capital.
Thousands of residents have signed a petition against plans to build a Tesco superstore in a Dorset market town.
Although Amazon has run an e-commerce operation in China for years, it has failed to build up a significant market share as local competitors such as Alibaba Group Holdings Ltd. and Beijing Jingdong Century Trading Co. have pressed to attract new customers.
This isn't rocket science -- just take a cue from the smartphone market and build a slider QWERTY peanut with a friendly, stripped-down top layout.
As retirement approaches, you can start putting more of your savings dollars directly into a online savings account, build a CD ladder or get a money market account for your nest egg.
For most investors in technology start-ups, the typical approach entails a five-year investment horizon that will enable the company to build market share and a sizeable customer base, making it ripe for a high-value liquidity event.
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True, it has been an effective way for companies to rapidly build a foothold in a market.
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More specifically, these start-up CEOs must hire talent, create a strong culture, build products that attract customers, pick a market to target, and develop a business model.
The ten-member Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN), which played host to the summit, likes to tout its own efforts to build a European-style single market of over 500m people.
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Greenwich Hospital Estates, which has owned the market since 1849, plans to build a 104-room hotel, provide office space and replace the market's canopy with a glass roof, but keep the original structure.
We currently build discounting models to create a fair market value for them, but there is no standard.
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To create that cultural change, they want to build the capacity for a thriving commercial market in parenting advice.
Companies could leverage social business collaboration to improve their bottom line, reduce costs, increase market share, build a competitive differentiator, etc.
Analysts say the move represents a fresh bid to build market share for Chromebooks against machines running Microsoft and Apple operating systems.
"The market is big enough, and whoever is able to grab market share and build a better brand will win this game, " he says.
Draack thinks Nokia has a good opportunity to build market share with its new partner and of course save costs in research and development when the two eventually bring a phone to market (most likely at some point next year).
The U.S. economy still needs to see an increase in consumer spending (which accounts for over 70% of GDP in the U.S. but is clearly impacted by the status of the U.S. labor market) to help build a sustainable economic recovery.
In other news, Colgate-Palmolive (nyse: CL - news - people ) says it struck a deal to buy the privately owned Swiss toothpaste company GABA Holding in order to build a bigger presence in the European toothpaste market.
In a note to UMG employees, UMG leader Anand Chandrasekher said that Bell will help build and lead a team to build breakthrough smartphone reference designs to accelerate Intel Architecture into the market.
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