"The World Bank estimates around half of all food that reaches the final market in Egypt is spoiled, " says Blair.
This was true for a great many items so, when possible, manufacturers would build operations as close to the final market as possible.
Big news on the Frontier Investing front: The biggest retailer in the world is making a bold new push into what most regard as the final frontier market.
Its report explored how ever-dicier logistics will affect the final-goods market in the West.
The longer the Fed waits to normalize rates, the more costly the final adjustments to market realties will be.
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For example, GDP is measuring final output at market prices: but if we have rationing and price controls then how can we really measure output at market prices?
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However, chart history also shows that the final, accelerating stage of a major bull market run can see around 25% to 40% of the entire price move during the bull run occur in that shorter, final stage of the bull market.
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But PDAs are still ripe in hardware, peripherals and applications--does anybody believe that the Palm (nasdaq: PALM - news - people) or the Visor are the final solutions in their market?
And a more serious correction in gold at some point, perhaps now, could happen before the final phase of the bull market begins.
Six months after putting out the iPhone last year, Apple had seized 26.7% of the U.S. smart phone market in the final quarter of 2007.
As more supply comes on line, home value appreciation rates will moderate and stabilize, marking the final transition from a recovering market to a healthy and sustainable market.
Sony was helped in the final quarter by a currency market that knocked almost 20 per cent off the yen's value against the dollar and euro compared with the same period a year earlier, amplifying its overseas earnings.
Such letters are the final step before a medicine hits the market, and usually spell out exactly what steps a company needs to take in order to get final approval.
In many cases it means convert to the final form closer to the end market.
That was an important driver in the final stages of the 1990s bull market.
OPEC, refused to sign the final agreement, claiming that the market did not need so much extra oil.
It then plunged with the final legs down of the bear market in stocks as the recession took hold.
She finally thought she was home-free, when she found her state requires a public hearing as a final step to determine if the market really needs another liquor retailer.
So far with all the things he has been doing at Apple, he is positioning Apple to capture the PC market back for his final closure for his legacy in this industry.
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And in the computer industry, where success depends partly on support from third-party software developers and compatibility with other machines, low profits and low market share are as final as a pair of death knells.
It started with the final stages of a big bull market, then we got the second biggest bear market since the Great Depression, a five-year bull market in which stocks over doubled, the biggest bear market since the Great Depression, and the massive start of a new bull.
On the day of his final testimony as Fed chairman, the market closed up 0.5%.
Second-quarter earnings from the company are expected to hit the market next Wednesday after the final bell.
Seven immense mobile carriers split 90% of the market share, with the final 10% split among six others.
The final key, I think, for market direction going forward is the dollar.
According to research by Gartner, Samsung and Apple now account for 52% of the global smartphone market, but in the final quarter of 2012, Samsung sold 64.5 million smartphones to Apple's 43.5 million.
Unmentioned is that in the US, Apple is the number one smartphone purveyor, and for the final quarter of 2012 has increased its market share to 36.3 percent-an impressive 6.7 percent increase over the same period a year ago.
After using MOSAIC scores and rankings as our initial guide, the Forbes team personally debates the merits and blemishes of individual companies, evaluating the strength of management teams, quality of investors, past growth, product strength and market potential to produce a final list.
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Last week, I asked why the market was so volatile during the final hour of trading.
As we approach the final stages of this high-yield bull market, these short-term positions will do fine.
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