That plus market-to-market accounting, no short uptick rule, and no ban on naked short-selling, led to the avalanche.
Finally, FASB made market-to-market accounting a regulatory capital requirement in November 2007.
But then again, it takes lower levels of fear to carve out a short-term bottom in a bull-market environment relative to a bear-market environment.
Overreliance on markets and models led the SEC and its sidekick FASB to put into place the highly procyclical and ultimately very destructive market-to-market accounting system, despite strong warnings from the secretary of the Treasury, the chairman of the Fed and the chairman of FDIC that it would create greater volatility in banking and lead to severe credit crunches.
For example, a somewhat aggressive team salary cap, coupled with a higher minimum salary for players and revenue sharing that redistributes money from large-market teams to small-market teams, may be in the interest of a majority of owners and players, but would be unacceptable to the folks at the table.
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States and localities got religion in the mid-1970s and began funding their pensions more soundly, but then a long bull market led management and unions to count on super-charged stock-market returns to cover the future costs.
Its lead in hybrid technology is under threat as other big carmakers scramble to bring low- and zero-emission vehicles to market before low-carbon legislation bites.
Therefore, the fan must subscribe to a cable package that includes the in-market game in order to watch his in-market team, regardless of the fact that he may have purchased the above-mentioned TV packages.
However, a real, honest-to-God, fly-to-the-market jetpack remains the province of science fiction.
In Australia, Tony Abbott, the opposition leader, had already vowed to repeal a government policy to introduce a carbon market in 2015 -- which would eventually link to the EU market -- if his Liberal National coalition wins the federal election in September.
Known as conduits, these special-purpose vehicles borrow in the short-term, commercial-paper market to make acquisitions of highly rated paper in American asset-backed securities, and have been walloped by the plunging value of those assets since the frailty of subprime loans were exposed.
After the developer failed to repay a loan, the bank involved - Deutsche Postbank AG - appointed Savills to re-market the entire site and project.
We endured the deep recession of 1973-74, when the market declined over 20% back-to-back, and the 1969-70 market, which wasn't much better.
After all, our huge long-term corporate losses stem not from easy money or mark-to-market rules but largely from the incorrect short-term incentives that compensation plans give to key executives.
The yield for seven-day tax-free and municipal money-market funds slipped to 1% in the latest week from 2%, while the yield for 30-day funds held steady at 0.02%.
In other words, it provides more ammo for small- and mid-market clubs to neutralize the big spenders by arguing for more wealth-spreading luxury taxes in the name of competitive balance.
There may be times when a long-term bull market periodically consolidates but fails to avoid getting out and staying out of a long-term bull market that periodically consolidates but fails to meet your 10% target to re-enter, consider putting 5% back to work for each quarter where the total return is plus or minus 5%.
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We would need to imagine a world and market-place that would allow such a pattern to occur and I think it is safe to saythat this market-place would be quite different from the one we currently have.
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Under existing regulations, generic firms can compete against an off-patent branded drug and battle for first-to-file, 180-day exclusivity to market a generic replacement.
The availability of this fully certified NFC SIM on the market provides a strategic time-to-market advantage for mobile operators and banks looking to deploy NFC massively.
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Just as in Japan, politicians have failed to make the structural labour- and product-market reforms essential to spurring growth.
Morningstar's "long-short" mutual-fund category includes market-neutral and absolute-return funds, which are designed to generate returns in any market environment, and arbitrage funds, which try to exploit market inefficiencies.
What they represent is a low cost opportunity to apply new solutions in the market before anyone else, enabling first-to-market advantage and enjoying the ability to increase strategic revenue streams or reduce operating expenditures.
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It must change from production-based marketing to market-based production.
It has to be regarded as a powerful new force in a world where population growth and competition for resources have changed the economic and political ground rules for ever, apparently crippling the ability of old-style free-market economics to deliver growth.
The Shariah black box is yet another financial fad like the sub-prime market where transparency is shrouded in opacity in the mad rush to market-share and quick profits.
As an added blow, Circuit City--and its suppliers--has lost market share to rivals such as Best Buy and Wal-Mart.
The tablet market - just like the smartphone market - has been subject to intense patent wars, chiefly between Apple and its key challenger Samsung.
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