The bank finds that Australia's consumers (jointly with Spain's) are the world's most exposed to higher interest rates or recession.
The certainty that carbon dioxide restrictions will impose higher energy prices on U.S. consumers and the U.S. economy is clearly evident when examining the relative costs of various energy sources.
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Their success proves, if nothing else, that Russian consumers are as shrewd and sceptical as any other country's consumers: they are not arbitrarily prejudiced against Russian manufactured goods, but they demand international standards of performance and reliability from the products they buy.
In his view, it is America's venturesome consumers that drive the country's leadership in innovation.
An oft-heard statistic while I was in Silicon Valley was that the Bay Area and Seattle (where Microsofties multiply) were the America's biggest consumers of pizza, Levi's and triple lattes.
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"Streaming content across numerous mobile devices, not just from the cloud but locally, has become a common practice for today's consumers, " said Bev Crair, general manager, of Intel's Storage Division.
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Over the past year Dell has broke Dell 's mania for dealing directly with consumers to strike deals with Best Buy, Tesco and others to get Dell's computers in consumers' faces.
If the transition were to turn violent and exports dropped, U.S. consumers could face higher prices and U.S. economic growth could take a hit.
The industry can anticipate a new level of attention from U.S. legislators, regulators and consumers following Shuanghui's deal to acquire Virginia-based pork producer Smithfield Foods.
In fact, the XO's isolation from the Web might have been a reason why consumers didn't snap them up during the buy-one-donate-one promotion that allowed U.S. consumers to purchase XOs between November and January--the promotion ended Jan. 1.
The recent round of currency devaluations in Asia leaves that region with even greater ability to lower costs to U.S. consumers, putting that much more pressure on U.S.-based companies to cut their own prices.
"Intel must now answer to the Federal Trade Commission, which is the appropriate way to determine the impact of Intel practices on U.S. consumers and technology businesses, " said the company's chief administrative officer, Tom McCoy, in a statement.
Asia's consumers are readier for a culture change than are its banks and institutions.
The U.S. buys a lot more from China than China's consumers buy from America each year.
Similar worries about pricey oil and faltering house prices may be haunting America's consumers.
For most consumers today's Internet, far from being a perfect market, is the high street from hell.
But a 1992 ruling from the commission prohibits prescription-drug companies from selling their wares directly to Europe's consumers.
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The euro area's consumers have high savings and low debt by rich-world standards but are nervous all the same.
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Why remind consumers there's a reason they've hated cars for all those years?
But at home, Japan's consumers are getting progressively less thanks for their parsimony.
Nevertheless, there is a good chance that Japan's consumers will grow more confident that, this time, the recovery is real.
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The message to all of us fortunate enough to be the world's consumers is: Be outraged where appropriate, but be selective.
In any case, the holy grail in China could shift away from property development as the country's consumers demand a better life.
But foreign companies are more upbeat on India's consumers, as well as health care and education, due to potential growth, analysts say.
But the bargain with today's consumers will have to become more refined.
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"Today's consumers are overloaded with complex technologies, and the LightSpeaker is designed to enrich their lives without complication, " said Klipsch president Paul Jacobs.
Now, however, Europe's consumers can no longer be relied on to buy big American and British acts as enthusiastically as they used to.
Last week the European Commission President declared that a robust euro was good for the region's consumers since it helped control inflation.
But this time it's consumers and all of the digital gadgets they are buying that are pulling the semiconductor business out of its rut.
The new models in the W- and R-series offer consumers Sony's unique combination of technology and content services, delivering life-like picture quality and immersive audio.
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