All he did was work in the souks, the old markets of Aleppo, waiting in vain for the tourists to come back.
Experience suggests that export revivals are led by highly productive industries that already export a lot, rather than less productive industries regaining old markets.
Dell and HP keep investing cash into trying to find past glory in old markets, but customers shifting to new markets causes that money to be wasted.
Defending and extending the old product markets is not sufficient.
Casey Institute's four- year-old Capital Markets Transparency Initiative is the same: State governors, legislators, treasurers, as well as pension fund managers and board members must avoid making in the future the kinds of mistakes that Pennsylvania's State Employees Retirement System (among others) has made in the past.
Still, after so many downgrades across the Old Continent, markets appear relatively inoculated from their negative effects.
Although textbooks may view gold as the old money, markets are using gold as an alternative monetary asset today.
Lacking any plans to drive growth, in old or new markets, it was no surprise that lay-offs and draconian cost cutting continued.
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Bruce Jenkyn-Jones and Ian Simm at Impax Asset Management run the three-year-old Impax Environmental Markets fund, a closed-end fund with 41 million pounds in assets.
Whisky has also suffered from its image in these markets as an old man's drink.
Canceled deals are another symptom of the year-old crisis gripping the credit markets.
In Silicon Valley talent is so dear to the capital markets that an old tradeoff is gone.
Because new competitors never stop beating down rates of return on old success formulas, and markets never stop shifting.
But with longer life expectancies and more competitive markets, those old promises began to seem unaffordable, or at least too risky.
Honda is now very profitable in several major markets, while the old gladiators struggle to survive.
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Old regulations were binned, financial markets created and listless state companies privatised.
There is still an old school view on the emerging markets that if the U.S. gets a cold, then emerging markets get the flu.
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You could grow rich by supplying and serving these new markets. n Destroying fat old verticals.
European regulators face the same hurdles as their American counterparts in trying to apply decades-old laws to dynamic and protean technology markets.
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Nearly every food and beverage company is putting more in emerging markets as shoppers in the Old World cut back and become more spending conscious.
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Due to the small size of most European domestic markets and due to their old imperial legacies, European firms tend to be more globally focused.
Nor, can they be trusted to coordinate their actions through the centuries old institution of voluntary exchange in free markets or through the voluntary organizations that are the bedrock of a civil society.
The old rule of thumb was that emerging markets were pricey when they traded at a higher multiple of profits than their developed counterparts, as they did in 1999 and 2007 just before sharp falls in prices.
That security is why people on a fixed income rather put their savings in US government bonds and get 3%, instead of putting half their life savings into a bond like the 10 month old, higher yielding, Oppenheimer Emerging Markets (OEMAX) mutual fund.
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In an odd three-degrees-of-separation, White's old job as head of equity capital markets at Credit Suisse was reclaimed by Ernesto Cruz, who is married to Zoe Cruz , the former head of fixed income at Morgan Stanley whose promotion to co-president of the firm in March helped precipitate the management turmoil.
Currency manipulation is considered an economic crime because the old orthodoxy says currencies should float and the markets decide.
Viewers in those markets had two options: Buy old-fashioned antennae for their sets, or watch friends' satellite TV systems.
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