And the answer was pretty clear: foreign owned firms were more innovative than purely domestic firms.
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Russians are believed to make up the largest proportion of foreign owned accounts on Cyprus.
American companies, such as ExxonMobil would be effectively rendered uncompetitive against foreign owned oil and gas companies.
One argument may be that allowing foreign owned companies to operate in the health insurance market undermines the regulation by individual states under the current regime.
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Imagine a U.S. automobile market with no foreign owned companies.
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For the rest of us, it is of little doubt that competition from foreign owned car companies has led to higher quality and lower priced products for American consumers.
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Here you have 800bn euros of foreign-owned government bonds, 600bn euros of foreign-owned corporate bonds, and 300bn euros of foreign-owned listed equities (numbers from JP Morgan) - together with E3 trillion of deposits.
The move is likely to cause chaos for the host of smaller operators, some of them foreign owned, which entered the market after 2008, and could hurt the banks that have loaned them money.
Remy, Inc. (formerly Delco-Remy, and formerly part of GM) is already building starters and alternators in China through both a wholly foreign owned enterprise (WFOE) and a joint venture with a unit of ASIMCO.
This foreign owned group has already, during Hutton, showed, through a concerted attack by the Sun, The Times the News of the World, BSkyB and Fox what it can do at a nod from Rupert Murdoch.
If we start seeing a recovery in such things as auto sales, one can expect much of the new demand to be meant in efficient, largely foreign owned factories that have been gearing up across the Southeast.
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To do otherwise may set the precedent that by merely incorporating a subsidiary in the U.S., any foreign owned and operated company would be eligible to acquire -- or merge with -- U.S. security-sensitive firms without CFIUS review.
In a stroke of a pen, a law allowing foreign ownership of Chinese banks made the oldest foreign-owned bank unholdable by its foreign owners.
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It's also striking how much more valuable foreign-owned businesses are to Scotland than indigenous ones.
In manufacturing, foreign-owned companies accounted for 36% of value added and 27% of employees.
In services, foreign-owned companies generated double the value added per worker, and had labour costs 30% higher.
Detroit would want imported automobiles barred from the country and foreign-owned U.S. factories closed down.
Meanwhile, foreign-owned car companies have created some 20, 000 new jobs in mostly southern factories.
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The city's best restaurants tend to be foreign-owned, and notably cleaner and better than home-grown rivals.
And if there are several competitors, what does it matter whether a few are fully foreign-owned?
Lower rates will not necessarily encourage Chile's banks, some of which are foreign-owned, to lend.
He also pledged to punish foreign-owned power companies that he said charged too much.
And, right on cue, two foreign-owned, high-tech multinationals have just announced plans for the region.
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And the occupation of foreign-owned businesses will do nothing to draw new investment into Argentina.
But the measures leave the banks most of the big ones are foreign-owned staring at huge losses.
Banking remains, with few (mainly foreign-owned) exceptions, a woefully undercapitalised and badly managed affair.
That all goes to show foreign-owned companies are more efficient and competitive, right?
Many companies -- especially foreign-owned -- say they will not even consider such locations for new sites.
Now the top 20 include six foreign-owned banks, among them TD Bank, HSBC, Santander and BNP Paribas.
Among others, Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Federal Reserve, has expressed support for competition from foreign-owned exchanges.
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