It will, of course, sell a Windows license for most of the 350 million PCs sold in this year, but that market is shrinking.
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Higher supplies of most commodities and slowing economic growth could mean lower prices, but that emerging market demand will prevent a collapse, they said.
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But even that market has suffered an attack of investor nerves.
In the end, Fama conceded that returns were not normal but insisted that the market portfolio was still unbeatable.
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Stack says the biggest threat to stocks will come from interest rates, but that danger, he says, is not imminent, with the Federal Open Market Committee all but assuring the market that rates will not rise until spring 2004 at the earliest.
Does that mean that the current secular bear market will last until 2017, but that the current cyclical bull market will last a couple more years, and not end until it has reached its peak of 2000 again?
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Her critics say that she saw the benefits of an open market but failed to appreciate that the management of that market would inevitably lead to handing over of some sovereignty.
It's no surprise to anyone but the SEC that market volatility exploded after the uptick rule ceased.
But that unsecured interbank market more-or-less closed down in 2007 and 2008, and has never properly recovered.
But Puri says that market is now saturated and the end is in sight for the relevance of the PC.
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Kaplan says that when he took over the fund he expected to pay about 20 times earnings for a good semiconductor stock, but that the overall market's high valuation has made everything more expensive.
But to gain that market share Alukkas first had to leave the subcontinent and seek his fortune in the Gulf, tapping into the buying power of expatriate Indians, the dominant immigrant community in the region.
But when that free market enterprise results in our economy almost collapsing, resulting in Wall Street needing more than a trillion dollars of infusion from the American taxpayer and the Federal Reserve, it sure isn't free to us.
After modeling GM against Ford on a 11.5 million car year, followed by 12.5 million and eventually 16 million units, GM's market valuation comes in a touch cheaper than Ford but that assumes they hold market share which is not a given.
Of course, second-lien debt is a niche product for issuers that require higher leverage than is usually available in the first-lien market, but that in many cases are locked out of the regular-way high-yield bond market because of size, credit quality, or complexity.
But market participants expect that the agency will meet the market in terms of pricing, as other Spanish sellers increasingly have been doing lately to dispose of distressed property.
He acknowledges that Android is winning in market share but notes that Apple is taking nearly all the profits in the industry.
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The problem with tactical asset allocation is that it looks, sounds, smells, tastes, acts and feels so much like market timing that calling it anything but market timing becomes an issue in itself.
There was a short-term pullback in the weeks that followed this reading, but the market was higher in the months that followed.
He added that IBM had yet to decide how to bring the product to market, but that it should become available to customers within "the next few years".
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There may be times when a long-term bull market periodically consolidates but fails to avoid getting out and staying out of a long-term bull market that periodically consolidates but fails to meet your 10% target to re-enter, consider putting 5% back to work for each quarter where the total return is plus or minus 5%.
But Church predicts that the market will soon come around on this blue chip, which is his biggest holding.
But experience shows that the market mechanisms, or the people using and building them, are not so sophisticated, yet.
But the fact that the market price is the best available estimate doesn't mean that the market price is right.
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This sparked an increase in copper production, but that quickly left the market flooded when the telecom industry fell into a rut.
But that still leaves the market some 50% down from its peak.
The IDC article not only reinforces this point, but also indicates that the market share declines are much larger than had originally been believed.
But Chambers is confident that market is going to recover quickly.
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