"Softening in the sales market is always a driver of further demand in the rental market, " he added.
Some media buyers were surprised by Mr. Lauer's public comments, coming in the middle of the upfront ad-sales market.
Apple expects China to overtake the US as its biggest sales market, the company's chief executive has told China's state news agency.
Start with the U.S. home-sales market, the center of the storm.
Gasoline prices could spike high enough this summer to significantly rattle consumer confidence and further depress an already sluggish U.S. home sales market.
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These predictions suggest the upfront could be weaker than last year, when the ad-sales market was tepid, and volume was flat at most of the major broadcast networks.
Because of the difference in the way the data is collected, existing home sales lag new home sales by a month or two with regard to changes in the residential sales market.
Lifted by peak season sales, the market experienced stronger demand for TV products in both developed and emerging markets as LED TV sales drove overall market growth of over 40 percent on-quarter.
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Toyota spokeswoman Sona Iliffe-Moon said the company won't comment about any potential hit to sales or market share before its scheduled release of January sales on February 2.
These consumer loyalty ratings correspond very highly with behavior and sales and market share.
We measure corporate size using four measures--sales, market value, assets and profits--to produce a composite measure of bigness.
Yet for the country's two biggest automakers, their sales and market share have been slipping, and profits have evaporated.
It had a phenomenal year for sales and market share last year and needs exciting new products to pump that momentum.
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Genesis and Equus' premium segment success extends beyond sales and market share.
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Want to divert attention from flat sales or market share losses?
The cable industry continues to see stagnant TV subscriber growth, thanks to the weak economy, anemic new home sales, market saturation and the rise of Internet video options.
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Expectations for social media remain high in the buzz, brand-building and customer-loyalty categories and lower in the areas of sales, market share and customer acquisition, according to the survey.
Other executives described coping with decreasing sales and market share, employee layoffs and terminations, poor employee performance, failure to respond to changes in the marketplace, inability to grow their business, increasing competition, and managing conflict.
Motorola's fourth quarter and 2007 earnings turned out to be pretty bleak indeed -- as expected, perhaps -- and according to the company, it expects a further slide through the first quarter in both sales and market share.
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Meanwhile Shawn Spott, manager of corporate intelligence and research at RBC Wealth Management, responded to a request for better insight into sales and market performance by taking a couple of years to think about what information executives needed and how complex data could be presented simply.
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Those spreads, those large ticks, had paid for middle-market institutional sales groups, after-market support, and research analysts.
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Some market-watchers expect distressed sales to cause the market to soften again.
The stock market is now mesmerized by the surprising health of the US recovery, from car sales to house market.
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Mr. WILL ASTON-REESE(ph): (Vice President, Money Market Sales, Tradition Asiel Securities): I'm very scared.
Procter reported gains in volume sales and in market share growth during the quarter.
Is Japan about to break through in design, manufacture, and global market sales of commercial aircraft?
There are also a lot of short sales on the market that buyers should look out for.
Especially since both Apple and Google already have distribution and substantial market sales.
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