Right now they have a disadvantage to the brokers in that regard.
Mr. SCHULT: You have an advantage and you have a disadvantage.
New capital requirements that take effect next year will make the business more attractive to commercial banks, which right now have a disadvantage to the brokers because they have to set aside more capital against margin loans to hedge funds.
"If Jonny had come back as captain at outside-half with a new centre combination outside him, it could have been a disadvantage for England, " explained Ruddock.
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At the very least being public does not seem to have been a disadvantage for GLG.
In this new era, the record companies have a further disadvantage: everybody dislikes them.
Europe's diversity may once have been a disadvantage, a clash of cultures and languages rather than a healthy mix of skills.
If anything, they become more emboldened to pursue their own agenda when they sense they have foreigners at a disadvantage.
But commercial news is now at a distinct competitive disadvantage when you have a behemoth like the BBC "giving away" news on the Internet thanks to involuntary taxes that criminalize watching a television without a license.
Of course, in a zero interest rate world where interest returns have dropped close to traditionally low Japanese levels in the U.S. and elsewhere, Japan at present does not have much of a competitive disadvantage.
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That has been a huge boost for Western firms, which have otherwise often found themselves at a disadvantage in the Chinese market.
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And Bombardier said it would have been at a "distinct disadvantage" if Canada had not provided the loan subsidy.
It is not the first time in this Six Nations that England have had to play with a man disadvantage.
"If you make it a law, then you have a level playing field, no one's at a competitive disadvantage, " she said.
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In the not-too-distant future, it will be a competitive DISadvantage to not have Open Notes.
Business leaders such as CBI Scotland and the Scottish Chambers of Commerce (SCC) have claimed businesses had been put at a disadvantage following the change.
Single mothers, who are disproportionately low-skilled, face a triple disadvantage: they have only one worker, they earn low wages and they pay all the costs of raising a child.
This is not an uncommon practice in business in these times, and throwing such agreements out of Oklahoma courts simply based on the fact that they contain elements of foreign law could in fact place Oklahoma corporations at a disadvantage in having to have all disputes adjudicated away from home.
They say a radical overhaul of the commission system in Britain makes little sense when America, the world's largest equity market, will continue with today's arrangements, soft commissions and all. (Softing is more generous and more widely used in America than in Britain.) To have a different commission system from international peers would put British fund managers at a disadvantage, or so say London money-men.
Within those battles, you will face all sorts of situations where you can have the upper hand, or be at a disadvantage.
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The affair could scupper the campaign to defang the FCPA. American firms have long grumbled that they are at a competitive disadvantage because other countries' anti-bribery laws are laxer.
It is feared that forcing e-tailers to contend with more red tape than their offline counterparts have to deal with will put them at a disadvantage--distracting them from their business of selling.
Even though they are paying horrendous interest rates and are at a huge disadvantage because these loans have triggers in them that in many cases will make their interest rates go even higher.
The Supreme Court has already ruled, just last week, that employees need not have suffered any disadvantage in their job to bring a lawsuit for harassment.
Girls are at a disadvantage in other ways, too, and have a higher drop-out rate than boys.
The European budget was (and is) relatively small, but it would have been hard to design it in a way more calculated to disadvantage Britain.
Their disadvantage is that they have to be scanned physically by a line-of-sight reading device.
Although entrepreneurs from emerging markets have made impressive strides in building global companies, they are still at a disadvantage in terms of creating global brands.
One of the major arguments banks have used against reenacting Glass Steagall is that it would put them at a competitive disadvantage, especially with European banks.
An MoD spokeswoman said the tests were not intended to recreate actual battle conditions as this would have put the women, who are not trained for infantry warfare, at a unfair disadvantage.
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