So it means that you have more market, you have new market to work.
Being large and established meant you were supposed to have market clout, and you could protect your profits.
What really happens is in some markets, private insurers don't have market power.
These banks have market capitalizations below the liquidation values of the companies even when the liquidation values are 100% cash.
We have market-facing people in country, and we have a big back-office operation in India to optimize our cost structure.
Investors that are cerebrally driven (i.e. have a GTB biased to the brain side) have market views and resulting portfolios that are too conservative.
Diageo is busy absorbing some of its other acquisitions of recent years, and Brown-Forman and Beam have market caps of 13 billion and 10 billion, respectively.
But I also believe that market economies sometimes have market failures, and when these occur, there's a role for prudential -- not excessive -- regulation of the financial system.
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Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a product or a service that the customer does not and cannot have, and does not need if he can trust the brand.
Moreover, they would have market incentives to choose on their own to delay their own retirement ages as long as possible, because the longer they wait the more they would accumulate in their accounts, and the higher benefits those accounts could pay.
Typically mutual funds is where we are looking at quite substantially right now for really one reason, and those tend to trend better with a lot less risk, so you know you can have market-like rate of return on high-yield-bond mutual funds with historically a third of the downside risk of the markets.
Sales of mass-market beers have been weak of late, as microbreweries and premium beers have taken market share, which bodes well for InBev's European lagers.
Middle market firms tend to have weaker balance sheets, have less market momentum than big firms, and are dealing with competition from both small firms and big firms.
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Although behavioural financiers have spotted market anomalies, they have not shown that these can be systematically exploited: the average fund manager still struggles to produce a return that matches the index.
Take, for example, the semiconductor market: Here you have a market that has created employment sectors on its own merit, but has also created support markets in software, fabrication equipment, assembly, packaging, test and chemicals, etc.
The recent margin and productivity trends have exceeded market expectations and the railroads have set records even during the recession.
And the founders will start to appreciate the challenges needed to have a market adopt your product and have partners want to work with you.
In any event, the higher the stock market the more people will have stock market gains that just might find their way into the housing market.
At the present time, that signal can be jammed very readily and the Russians, whom we have encouraged to learn free market ways, now have on the free market a commercial jammer that you can purchase.
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The recent market turbulence has shaken investor confidence but have the market-leading sectors changed?
Since early January, emerging market equities have fallen close to 3%, while developed market equities have rallied about 5% in dollar terms.
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So the software companies are sitting back lovely because they don't have to market as hard as they normally would have to do on their own.
When the UK's competition watchdog last examined the state of the UK grocery market, it said that no one player should have a market share of more than 25%.
Companies, according to the report, will be eligible for listing if they have a market capitalization of at least 30 billion yuan and have a combined net profit of at least 3 billion yuan in the three years preceding the listing.
Emerging market equities have underperformed developed market equities in 2011.
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If you have taken money out of the market and have it parked in a money market fund, think about putting a portion of your money market fund holdings into stocks like American Capital Agency Corp. (AGNC) to improve your yield.
Britain's banks, which have bigger market shares than most rivals in America and Europe, have been frightened of cannibalising their own customer base.
The elections come at a critical time for Italy, which has undergone a year of tax increases and spending cuts measures that have eased market concerns over the country's economy, but have left the majority of Italians poorer and disaffected.
Collectively, these have been big market participants and have enjoyed the tailwinds of the Fed.
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