Fundamentally, my valuation figures have changed due to the recent market pop.
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And it came on the heels of a press-release-hyped market pop.
While at sea somewhere between Monaco and Barcelona, Forbes stock columnist Ken Fisher predicted the American stock market would pop during the second half of 2006.
But the vanguard of China's pioneers has been an army of small merchants fanning out throughout Africa, setting up "mom and pop" shops and market stores, selling cheap imports.
Mom and pop shops flourished, the market was fragmented and studios had a lot of power.
That leaves mom-and-pop businesses as the addressable market.
Hot Topic, in the midst of restructuring its merchandise strategy to appeal to a younger and more pop-culture-oriented market, also missed expectations, reporting a sales increase of 0.4%, under the 1.7% estimate.
When finished it will offer five new chef-driven sit down restaurants, plus an expansive food hall with taqueria, gourmet burgers, upscale sandwich shop, Chinese barbecue, fresh seafood, fresh market, and pop-up retail stores.
Other well-known chefs now travel the world and use Pop Ups as a way to market their home restaurant in local popular restaurants or even resorts, which offer dining rooms and advertise food-driven events featuring these chefs.
In the first case, Alan Greenspan was worried about a stock market bubble and tried to pop it with higher interest rates.
Then again, that pop in the 10-year bond market was short lived.
The price pop for each could be explained by unique market conditions.
Two weeks ago, FORBES GLOBAL asked whether the stock market was signaling an asset bubble pop, as it did in 1987, or something far worse -- an Armageddon like 1929.
As such, we'll continue to see N-Series handsets already in development pop with S60 on board alongside mass-market Maemo devices as the platform matures to the point that Nokia can make the full switch by 2012.
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Cloud computing has recently stepped into the public spotlight and become a pop-culture buzzword thanks to its adoption by market leaders like Apple ( AAPL).
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It tends to pop up as a broad concern after a bull market has been running for a while and usually coincides with extreme optimism or even euphoria.
Mom and Pop investors wait some more, only to watch the market-index arrows continue to point up, and then continue to sit and wait, still worried they are missing their chance.
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New Delhi (CNN) -- After a slow start, Apple's iPhone has jumped to India's second largest smartphone supplier by pushing phones to Mom-and-Pop shops in the world's fastest growing smartphone market.
Of course, we can never be sure what the VIX premium will look like at the bottom, and a VIX pop like that of January is certainly possible before the market ultimately troughs.
On Friday I said the U.S. stock market had a further 20% to 30% pop in it over the next two years.
Thirteen such deals have generated an average first-day gain of 20%, compared with a 14% first-day pop for all initial offerings, according to Ipreo, a market intelligence firm.
First and foremost, Panasonic informed us this isn't currently targeted at the US market -- but we suppose if enough of you pop by the booth and crank it to 11 they may reconsider.
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The simple rule about market bubbles is to get in and out before they pop, and by that standard the news that Groupon is moving towards an IPO makes all the sense in the world.
But Hukku, after establishing his family in the U.S. and growing comfortable with American pop-culture references, has found that the U.S. market is still a challenge and a half.
When will the big emerging market stock indices in Brazil, Russia, India and China finally pop?
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But by the time he went back, hoping to record groups like this in the late eighties, Mobutu was gone, Christian Evangelists had cornered the funeral music market, and Kinshasa was full of slick guitar bands playing amorous pop music.
Take away the NRSRO designation and the playing field levels out significantly: entrepreneurs pop out of the woodwork with creative ways to measure credit risk, and the market economy helps to select those new and innovative ideas which have the most merit.
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She also notes "broader demographic themes" that will support growing bottom lines for homebuilders, such as continued immigration into the United States, a shortage of land available for building, and the market share that big builders continue to steal from the "mom and pop" outfits.
One thing's certain: the small players just don't have the money to market their devices over there, whereas Samsung and LG got to get local pop groups to sing and dance about their phones Gangnam style .
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