In certain industries, such as oil and gas, concentration is especially acute, with only two or three auditors ruling the market.
From then on, the commission's efforts to see full compliance with the ruling over market dominance became a bane to Ballmer, who would have preferred some sort of settlement over the issue as had been obtained with the United States Department of Justice in 2001.
In China in 1978, the ruling party introduced market-oriented incentives.
Production and use of GDP is valued at current market prices ruling in the period of production or use of products.
Scottish and Newcastle, Britain's biggest brewer, which brews Foster's lager in the UK and recently bought the French Kronenbourg brand, already has around 30% of the UK market, effectively ruling out a large-scale purchase such as Carling.
After that was ruled illegal in June, Guidant was left with few options: strike a deal with Boston Scientific, buy Cook, find a viable way around the ruling or sit out the market until its second-generation product was approved.
The ruling class in Angola is another promising market.
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This is especially problematic in SCF because should a non-recognized Shariah authority attempt to market his services to the financial institutions seeking Shariah guidance, a ruling by the existing Shariah authorities that the newcomer has not satisfied their credentialing requirements would render the market closed to that newcomer as a practical matter.
Analysts said investors were worried that the ruling could see certain products taken off the market.
Any market participant can ask for a ruling.
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In my view, the ruling essentially brings a heavier dose of the free market to the credit card business in that it will let merchants offer discounts and special deals to customers depending on which piece of plastic they use to pay for things.
But perhaps the biggest threat to the market leader would be a further WTO ruling or, ironically, a change of heart in America that led to the legalisation of online gambling there and allowed established firms from the pastime's spiritual home to enter the market.
Certainly this ruling seems to have had a significant effect on the sukuk market.
Government attorneys warned that "substantial market confusion" could result if Korman's ruling was enforced while appeals are pending.
That was the challenge that the Supreme Court declined to consider this week, leaving intact a lower court ruling that EchoStar cannot beam a local channel outside its home market to consumers who already are served by other local channels.
"We consider this ruling to be a significant step in creating fair competition across the internal market, reducing artificially inflated prices which vary across member states, " said the firm's Martin Ochs.
In a post last February, Supreme Court Cert Petition Spotlights Speech Limits on Securities Market, we urged the Justices to review a Massachusetts high court ruling which prevented communication about investment opportunities.
True, the court reversed the finding that Microsoft had attempted to monopolise the market for web-browser software, and also overturned last year's ruling by Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson that the company should be split in two.
What the market is focusing on now is the downside, the indecisive character of the ITC ruling.
But a recent court ruling will give Amgen the exclusive right to sell Aranesp not only to the U.S. market, but also to the European dialysis market, the oncology market, and patients with chronic kidney problems that do not yet require dialysis.
They see little to distinguish the ruling centre-left coalition from the right-wing opposition, both of which espouse orthodox free-market policies.
The case follows a March ruling by the Fair Trade Commission of Japan, in which the Japanese regulator warned Intel against using its market dominance to pressure computer makers to accept its chips.
But Snyder said a ruling against Apple would mark the first time in anti-trust law history in which a new entrant in a market was condemned when its presence benefited consumers.
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