This year, we are expecting the smartphone sub-market to grow 55% year over year.
If you have supportive evidence your salary is at sub-market levels, you should speak up.
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They really are more tolerant of sub-market returns if it means that they are experiencing less volatility and feel that they are reducing their risk.
Despite the sub-prime market's attractive returns, prices have not fallen as others come in.
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The impact of misrepresenting or miscalculating risk was felt in the sub-prime market and cascading global financial meltdown.
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Also in March, Bristol-Myers started selling two of its aids drugs at below cost, and it has allowed generics to come into the sub-Saharan market.
The Shariah black box is yet another financial fad like the sub-prime market where transparency is shrouded in opacity in the mad rush to market-share and quick profits.
Countrywide's profit warning had served as a reminder to investors of persisting troubles in the sub-prime market, analysts said, with some fearing it may spread wider than that.
Wal-Mart sees more opportunity in emerging markets than in Europe, and with its potential stake in Massmart, Wal-Mart can gain a strong foothold in South Africa and the sub-Saharan market.
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Which is a reminder that the scale of what went wrong in the sub-prime market was not just any old banking accident, but that the disclosure of losses in this market became the trigger (though not the cause) of the economic malaise that afflicts us to this day.
One reason is that the country's banks were relatively unexposed to the US sub-prime mortgage market.
The sub-prime lending market - worth billions of pounds - involves lending to people with poor credit records at an interest rate premium.
But when the sub-prime mortgage market turned sour, the darling of the financial markets became the Black Hole equation, sucking money out of the universe in an unending stream.
But while many major international banks have seen large writedowns in the wake of rising defaults among the sub-prime mortgage market, the majority of China's US mortgage-backed securities were underwritten by US government agencies such as Fannie Mae.
The truth is that unlike Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people)--well-known for its months-long, delay-ridden product launches--and in spite of a sub-10% market share for personal computers, Apple still knows how to work a room.
For these consumers, Apple undoubtedly has the advantage over its competitors and will continue dominating this sub-section of the market for the time being.
Also in October 2012, the GIIN announced a new partnership with the UK Department for International Development (DFID) to develop and grow the impact investing market in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia.
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An initial three-month pilot phase will see up to 50 kiosks installed mainly in market town-based sub post offices, with a further 50 added every three months.
Google says its Mini customers range from appliance maker Sub-Zero to the Nasdaq stock market, public-sector patrons such as the city of Bloomington, Ill. and the University of Oklahoma.
The U.S. economy appears to be on track for a mild recovery, after years of sub-par growth, while the labor market remains depressed.
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For the last several years, he has led engagements focused on identifying challenges and opportunities across the agricultural market and supply chain in sub-Saharan Africa, including cash crops (for export), staples, and horticulture.
Another source of hope for victims of predatory lending could come if the securitisation market, which buys lots of sub-prime loans, became more vigilant about whom it buys loans from.
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Market stops are beginning to add up sub-1.05 towards 1.0480.
The interbank market tried in vain to trigger stop-losses sub-1.3460, ran smack into central bank support, got themselves short and now have been chasing the EUR higher ever since.
While I am optimistic about the prospects for continued growth in the U.S. economy (albeit sub-standard growth from a historical perspective) and for the stock market overall for 2013, I remain concerned that many of the same headline risks that were in place heading out of 2012 may still prove to be headwinds in 2013.
People familiar with Microsoft's product plans have said the company didn't anticipate the rise of sub-8-inch tablets, which comprised nearly half of the tablet market in the fourth quarter, according to IDC.
But the effect of the new laws, says Michael Williams of the Bond Market Association in New York, could be simply to push secondary-market participants, fearful of liability, out of the sub-prime business altogether.
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The panel expresses concern over the continued sale of potentially harmful drugs in India years after such products were banned or withdrawn in developed countries and the prevalence of "sub-standard" - 7-8% of total sales - in the market.
"I think the market is now a little bit concerned that it is not just isolated to sub-prime, " said George Goncalves, strategist at Morgan Stanley in New York.
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