China, however, is a hard market for foreign banks to break into.
Plus it is a hard market to serve well: The window to reach customers is very small and retailers must offer large assortments to reach women at different stages of pregnancy.
South Africa, with a strong economy, provides attractive fixed-income opportunities while India, with a massive need for infrastructure investment, is a hard market to access given relatively under-developed capital markets. (Read: No Credit Bubble In Brazil, Just Dangerous Consumer Debt Burden).
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Their origins lie in 2004, when some of the big subprime lenders began to compete hard for market share.
An added pain for studios is that comedies, even ones that do relatively well domestically, are hard to market overseas.
She had something to sell, her experience as a geisha and of Japanese culture, and she worked hard to market it.
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Chinese and Southeast Asian investment banks are fighting especially hard for market share, while some French banks are switching their focus to Asian bond markets, away from Europe where activity is slow.
Marshalls dominates the United Kingdom hard landscape market. (The company manufactures paving and other products.) It is often the first to innovate and its ethics are above reproach, which has been a successful formula.
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Black worked hard to market herself.
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Mr. Hoguet recommends holding about 2% of an overall bond allocation in emerging-market hard-currency bonds, and about 8% in emerging-market local-currency bonds.
However, faced with competition from the storage market leader EMC in its core unified storage market, NetApp may find it increasingly hard to gain further market share.
Commodities in general were hit hard during the market rout, he pointed out, not just gold.
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If this continues, it will be hard for the market to get much momentum to the upside.
Disappointing U.S. corporate earnings reports recently, with DuPont being the latest, have hit the U.S. stock market hard.
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Germany's insistence on negotiated, rather than regulated, access has made that market hard to penetrate without an army of lawyers.
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The recent turmoil in the banking sector has hit the British job market hard--particularly in "the City, " London's financial center.
The same fear of subjecting South Africa's economy to hard-nosed market judgments lies behind apartheid's second economic relic: regional trade barriers.
Economic signs in April hinted at its return, with a 21st century twist that could be especially hard on money market accounts.
Higher oil prices and inflationary fears hit the stock market hard on Tuesday, and even the big oil companies were under pressure.
Equities were hit particularly hard since stock market indexes like the Dow Jones Industrial Average are just off record highs set last week.
The Thai flooding created significant shortages in the hard disk drive market that generated millions of dollars of losses for well-known electronics manufacturers.
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Soviet oil production, the most strategic sector of the civilian economy, is declining which bodes ill for meeting the rigid requirements of the domestic economy, Eastern Europe, and the crucial hard currency export market.
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Shares of big mining companies like Newmont Mining and Barrick Gold, down 17% and 30% respectively in 2013, are getting hit hard as the market takes a less sympathetic view of any operational hurdles they are facing.
Among other things, the turn of events has removed a huge competitive advantage for Ford at just the time the brand could use one, in view of its struggles to continue to grow and hold on to hard-won market share.
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A. Hayek and Milton Friedman, both of whose lectures she attended, that her instincts about hard work, market competition, thrift and a sound currency were exactly the blast of oxygen Britain needed to save it from slow asphyxiation by the trade unions.
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Wendy's has benefited in part from weakness at Burger King, which analysts say has suffered in recent years from a series of management and ownership changes, a lack of menu development and an over-reliance on young adult customers at a time when high unemployment hit that market hard.
While the market is surging the morning, gold is selling off fairly hard in the pre-market.
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