That spells disaster in a market climate where B2B buying is social, transparent and trust-based.
The reason for this is simple: consistent delivery of profitable results regardless of the market climate.
Indeed, from the way healthcare stocks have weathered the storm, they appear to be a safe refuge from the currently unhealthy market climate that has bedeviled most investors.
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Furthermore, the market is demonstrating some fear that has been largely absent for the past 14 months, which means an investor must think twice before devoting more capital to stocks in this market climate.
"Despite the substantive accounting issues as to whether companies end up paying twice, we believe that in today's market climate, it is in the best interest of our shareholders to expense the options AIG grants going forward, " Greenberg said in a prepared statement.
Correctly or not, complaints from business groups that the carbon market and other climate policies are contributing to higher energy prices at a time when they are already grappling with a weak economy appeared to be decisive in Tuesday's vote.
Putting a home on the market in this grim real-estate climate might seem like lunacy considering how heavily the market favors buyers.
Texas stands out for its free market and business-friendly climate.
False association of the crony capitalism practiced under the dictator there (and many other places) with a true market economy is causing the climate for real entrepreneurs to grow chilly in Cairo.
Chairman Jonathan Warburton said the last year had been "particularly challenging" due to the economic climate and a competitive market.
One of the ATA's chief interests is a bill now moving through Congress that uses a market-based approach to curb climate change.
Meanwhile, Viloria said the foreign-exchange market has factored in a weak economic climate for Europe.
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However, because of the economic climate and the horrendous job market, how am I meant to get there?
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It said the growth was achieved despite the "challenging economic climate" and a depressed market for savings and investment products across the sector.
The luxury car market has struggled in the down economic climate, plummeting from 17 million in pre-recession 2007 to some 12.7 million in 2011.
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The announcement follows the release of a report last month by Dutch and American scientists arguing that the voluntary Montreal agreement has been more successful in combating climate change than has the market-based Kyoto protocol.
Rothschild has a good, niche position in the market, but it's a tough climate.
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It has a portfolio of activities and partners, with programs spanning advocacy, market transformation, community-based conservation and climate change.
The economic climate has hurt Cadbury's market share in gum, though, which is down 0.8% in the U.S. since the start of the year.
Greg Hunt, the shadow minister for climate action, pointed to the EU market's price swings in the aftermath of Tuesday's vote.
Perhaps more surprisingly, Bloomberg very directly castigates Romney for reversing his position on the topic, saying that his previous stances about climate change were driven by free-market, centrist ideas.
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From the private sector, Steve Corneli, senior vice president for sustainability, strategy and policy for NRG Energy, attempted to blend free-market principles with an unquestioning belief in claims by climate-change advocates that have yet to be backed up with conclusive proof.
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Obama's renewed focus on climate, including his call for "market-based" solutions -- meaning reopening the idea of carbon markets or other such mechanisms, a couple of years after such ideas were considered by many to be dead -- was a return to promises made long ago.
Free market economics, sometimes blamed unfairly as the cause of climate change, can be the key to solving it.
The statement said that ANZ had withdrawn funding for Whitehaven's proposed Maules Creek mine due to "reputational risks and analysis of the returns on this mine in the current climate of high volatility in the coal export market".
Then as now, it is naive to assume that Chinese consumers will buy what you make just because it is cheap, and foolish to treat the vast country with its differences in income, climate and tastes as a single, giant market.
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Earlier at the Rome summit, U.N. chief Ban Ki-Moon called for a drastic increase in food production to meet the demands of a rising population and stave off a crisis brought about by oil prices, climate change and the impact of the biofuel market.
Coal on the global market is so cheap that it threatens government attempts to tackle climate change, the chairman of the Environment Agency has warned.
The carbon market is central to Europe's efforts to meet its climate change target of a 20% reduction in C02 emissions from 1990 levels by 2020.
The Climate Group launched LightSavers in 2009, supported by the HSBC Climate Partnership, with the goal to accelerate the market adoption of outdoor LED lighting and smart-lighting controls.
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