Google, Exxon Mobil, Microsoft, General Electric, Apple et al. Look at all major sectors in the index and decide whether they are likely to prosper in a tepid business cycle.
Prosper Marketplace is in a similar business, offering a kind of peer to peer lending system, attracting a range of borrowers including the underbanked.
That not only creates private sector jobs, but is also creates the platform, a better environment, in which business can prosper.
Or it may be a cyclical one: Asia's component-makers often prosper in the early stages of the Western business cycle, as companies rebuild their inventories in anticipation of brighter sales to come.
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Just as London has continued to thrive as a financial centre despite competition from cheaper locations, so Britain's business services will continue to prosper in the age of offshoring.
Do we really believe that we can long prosper in an economy that devalues experience: in people, in design, and in business ethics?
"I am confident that the business will continue to prosper as part of the new group, which will be the leading managed pub business in the UK, " said Spirit chairman Tony Campbell.
At the time it seemed the business may be able to prosper despite the tragic death of Laura Ashley on her 60th birthday in 1985 when she fell down a flight of stairs.
He urged these women to share their expertise with us, recognizing that they are pioneers in their efforts to provide emerging women business leaders and entrepreneurs the tools, resources and skills to prosper and generate greater job growth.
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Plus, he says, Citi is a diversified business with a large part of its operations in brokerage and insurance, and it should continue to prosper as rates go up.
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