However, there are clues that safe-haven investor demand continues to limit the downside in gold.
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In the fourth quarter, the challenging global economy will continue to limit demand in developed markets although Samsung will look to target premium products for growth.
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Indeed shareholders should demand that executives limit outside directorships.
Mr Huhne said the government would aim to encourage new entrants into the energy market, make clean energy more attractive to investors, develop reserve plants to ensure "the lights stay on" during periods of high demand, and limit the amount of carbon emissions from "dirty" power stations.
We expect these factors to limit consumer demand for 3D TVs for the foreseeable future.
So if there is a limit to demand for health care, it is still far away.
Employers are still cautious and weak demand will continue to limit new hiring.
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This left Chrysler little alternative but to drop the demand, although it may limit the range of magazines in which it advertises.
But even if agriculture is highly productive, emerging economies need to industrialise because there is a limit to the demand for foodstuffs.
The medical economist Rashi Fein observed in 1986 that there are only three ways to limit the extravagant demand for medical care: "Inconvenience, " the practice used in the military, where one must wait interminably for care.
This scenario has worked to limit safe-haven demand for gold this week.
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Now he says that most HMO payers demand documentation for pre-authorization or limit the number of visits per year.
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Even as weak commodity prices depress export prices, sluggish demand growth in the rich world may limit emerging economies' export volumes.
The demand for space in cities is largely a product of regulations that demand valuable land be wasted on parking, limit mixed-use zoning and restrict the height of buildings.
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Reports overnight said better demand for physical gold coming out of Asia continues to limit the downside in gold prices.
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"I would like to see a limit of two years from the point of demand to the point of opening an allotment site, " he said.
That may be slightly bearish for the gold market as it could limit physical buying interest this week, due to demand from China slowing during its holiday season.
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Instead, the oil inflation of 2011 was widely believed to reflect a long-term structural increase in demand from China and other developing economies running into the inexorable limit of a global oil supply that is at or near its geological peak.
But that last factor aside, there is no obvious limit to consolidation currently in sight, only supply and demand.
By agreeing to limit their production they endeavored to maximize both long-term demand for oil and short-term price.
AEP's commitment to greenery is not driven by rose-tinted altruism: it expects demand for clean power to increase as a result of government actions to limit climate change.
It has empowered civil society organizations to demand that governments respect women's human rights and to adopt policies to limit sex trafficking, domestic violence, child marriage and discrimination in the workplace.
The U.S. debt limit debacle and the simmering European Union debt crisis continue to produce safe-haven investment demand for the precious metals.
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Republicans must demand no less than such pro-growth tax reform as the price for their agreement in the next debt limit round.
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In theory, a discretionary central bank could limit the quantity of money and achieve long-run price stability by controlling the growth of nominal final demand.
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