The high value of the pound makes Britain a particularly attractive market for parallel importers.
Thus, the mainstream exchange-traded market does not have any clue about the volume of transactions happening in this parallel market or the prices at which they are being executed.
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Now the Market Rules The parallel development, in the business world, is the rise of consumer power.
Those with a bit of foreign currency to sell on the parallel market need to raise billions to fund these occasions.
However, he also tolerated a legal parallel market that kept the country supplied with hard currency at a higher rate (providing countless opportunities for arbitrage).
Muxlim.com is trying to tap into a parallel market with a site that offers file-sharing, streaming video, search and social networking, all for a Muslim audience.
Venezuela's government has stopped issuing import permits, nor is it providing dollars at the official exchange rate for imports from Colombia (a dollar costs almost three times more on the parallel market).
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And in one way, as it will seriously disturb the market in grey or parallel imports, one they might be quite happy with.
Danone says it believed things were going smoothly until 18 months ago, when it discovered Wahaha had started a parallel firm to market similar products.
In a parallel universe our market is the mainstream, writers are celebrities, dinner conversations never include references to The Jersey Shore or the Dow, and the whole world is again an enchanting place of discovery, invention and intellectual evolution.
Running parallel to Electric Avenue and steps from Grandville Arcade, Market Row is home to Franco Manca, a pizzeria that drew attention to the area well before the Spacemakers regeneration project for its Neapolitan-quality wood-fired sourdough pizzas.
Financial historians point to 1937 as a rough parallel but it's an inexact one and, despite one of the greatest stock market rallies ever, few traders came out on the right side of it.
Which means that our parallel importer might be taking necessary, life saving even, drugs away from someone in that low priced market to sell them in the high priced one.
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It's not exactly a landscape of mom-and-pop inns, but Liang says there's a parallel with the U.S. of the 1950s before the interstate highway system was finished: The market is fragmented and full of opportunity.
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