All of which is to say that central banks have to a large extent displaced the market, providing record volumes of loans to banks, and in return for assets or collateral of increasing diversity and - arguably - diminishing quality.
With this sequence of bets you'll (a) be exposed to market losses to the extent of the money you paid for the trade, (b) get triple the index return up to 15%, (c) give up any gains above 15%.
A. Hayek, market theoreticians have to a large extent employed the equivalent of the Great Man theory of history to explain what makes markets tick.
The most eye-catching was a move away from competitive markets, which to some extent would reverse the privatisation of the energy market as there could be a centralised energy buyer that could be government owned or regulated.
All of the above is shutting self-employed borrowers out of the mortgage market to a greater extent, Mr. McBride says.
WSJ: Qualifying for a Mortgage Is Harder for the Self-Employed
OECD's indicator of product-market regulation (ie, the extent of state ownership, the red tape involved in setting up a business, and barriers to international trade and investment) again puts India at the bottom of the class.
Second, because Amazon was propagating a technology platform as the front end of a book ecosystem, publishers feared a future monopoly in which Amazon controlled the market to such an extent as to control wholesale pricing and other business terms.
ENGADGET: Editorial: Bring on the digital overthrow of publishing
The obvious solution is to strip the rules of references to ratings where possible, so that the market, rather than a government mandate, determines the extent of their use.
Apple's problems in increasing its market share are, to a large extent, a result of the high prices it charges for its computers compared with similar products from the likes of Dell or Hewlett-Packard.
Unit trusts account for about 13% of the British equity market, which means that, to a significant extent, these managers are the market.
After two years of fighting Roku, Apple TV and, to a lesser extent, Google TV for market share, Boxee has drastically rethought its approach.
ENGADGET: Boxee TV delivers dual-tuners and cloud-based DVR for $99 November 1st
To what extent Leapfrog is a response to genuine market need, as opposed to a piece of industrial policy intended to keep the European garment-making industry alive in the face of competition from low-wage countries, is not yet clear.
This type of linkage is repeated across the industrial metals sector and, to a lesser extent, in oil, a more speculative market.
Arnott, who has managed the fund since 2002, believes mean reversion could take hold as soon as some uncertainties are taken removed from the market, especially concerning General Motors, Citigroup, and to a lesser extent, AIG and Bank of America 's merger with Merrill Lynch.
应用推荐