Since many of those same companies export combat systems in competition with producers in other markets like France and Russia, Pentagon insourcing has the potential to impair U.S. military exports.
In fact, until this year Kimberly-Clark pretty reliably offered investors the things giant consumer-goods producers in mature markets have historically provided: Stability through downturns, plush capital-return policies to make up for the limited growth potential, and no big surprises.
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But even as their markets in industrialised countries are closed, asbestos producers are finding huge new markets to exploit - among people who know little of the epidemic of cancer asbestos has created elsewhere.
Fairtrade's price-adjustment mechanism is intended to insulate small producers from volatile commodity markets and the free-trading, no-holds-barred capitalism that multinational companies espouse.
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Competition within Italy is fierce and Asian producers have conquered foreign markets.
China needs to loosen its peg to the U.S. dollar, Koester says. or risk losing out on some business to lower-cost producers in other emerging markets.
Traditional economists have argued that proper use of the options markets helps producers and buyers alike, but many on the ground argue that the spikes and dips far exceed actual supply fluctuations.
The economy's recovery will depend crucially on net trade, spurred by the big drop in sterling over the past two years, which will give an edge to domestic producers both in export markets and at home.
Looking at in terms of China, we should open our markets to Chinese producers without restrictions.
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Halstead says the European crisis might even provide a boost in exports for wine producers as they seek new markets.
Its subsidies to corn producers helped to displace rival producers from third-country markets, such as Mexico, Canada and the Philippines.
The argument usually made is that such steps are necessary to ensure that American producers can compete in world markets and that "higher fences around fewer technologies" can safeguard what absolutely must be protected, and allow easier transfer of products that need not be.
The marginal producers and investors are distorting the markets, and their crashes will come first in a very ugly way.
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America uses its energy growth to keep traditional producers on their toes and emerging markets firmly in their hydrocarbon place.
China was stocking all the copper it could get on world metals markets or from large producers like Freeport McMoran, FCX on the NYSE.
Domestic ethanol producers will want to protect their markets and avoid competition that could cut into their margins (as their new lobbying effort amply demonstrates).
Regulated utilities, which sell power to business and residential customers in defined geographic areas at negotiated rates, have been outperforming the companies, like independent power producers, that operate in unregulated markets.
For having decided this, they ignored the simple economic truth that anything worth having must first be wildly expensive and very unavailable so that the producers and innovators know what the markets want mass produced.
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Markets maximize benefits to producers and consumers.
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This partly explains why food bought from local producers either directly or at farmers' markets is growing in popularity, and why local-food advocates are now the keepers of the flame of the food-activism movement.
But then few have such concentrated suppliers as platinum, palladium and nickel - and Opec has been aware of its special power to influence the markets ever since 1973, when producers quadrupled world oil prices almost overnight.
Third, rising incomes in the poorest ranks spur greater innovations: entrepreneurs find markets with greater purchasing power, larger markets give greater economies of scale for producers, and production facilities search for labor saving innovations.
Producers and consumers have a common interest in stabilising oil markets.
In other words, cap and trade would be a boon for carbon-intensive electricity producers--at least those located in unregulated electricity markets--because they raise rates to reflect the market value of those allowances.
Others provide entry into commodities markets or let you buy a group of commodity producers.
They show that America's extensive subsidies to its barley producers, for example, helped keep foreigners out of American markets.
High prices normally send out two signals in free markets: they tell consumers to use less and producers to supply more.
They lend gold bullion reserves to short sellers as well as to gold producers themselves, who then sell the metal in the spot markets.
In time, integrated producers will be able to maintain an undisputed advantage only in markets for the best-quality, highest value-added products, such as those used in cars and household appliances.
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