In many countries, weak competition allows too many underperforming, poorly managed firms to survive.
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Early postwar Britain was notable for cartelisation, nationalisation, weak competition policy, and protectionism.
The U.S. also benefits from having weak competition for our bonds.
Rather, regulation and weak competition discourage them from doing so.
First, the industry suffers from weak competition, in large measure because the interests of consumers and their financial advisers are not aligned, since advisers are generally paid by providers through commissions.
Rudy Giuliani has been gifted with surprisingly weak competition.
But this also is a treacherous time to make a big bet on the retail industry, which is battling headwinds from a weak economy, competition from online shopping and overbuilding during the boom years.
In Africa they can learn the ropes in a region where competition is weak.
It said it expected sales volume for paper chemicals to decline given weak demand and increased competition.
Pay-TV looks a lot like retail banking: competition is weak not because the rules need rewriting but because customers are reluctant to switch suppliers.
The downgrade follow dismal earnings reports this week from both Dell and Hewlett-Packard, as PC sales sag amid a weak macro economy and competition from tablets and smartphones.
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Times have been tough for the PC industry, as falling prices, weak demand and high competition have already forced Lenovo Group into a loss, while Dell has found that IT spending by large companies is weak.
Personal computer maker Hewlett-Packard may be trying to branch out into software and services, but it still has to contend with falling PC prices, weak demand and fierce competition in the legacy business that still dominates its profits and revenues.
Cathay said that weak cargo demand and increased competition in the region also hurt its profitability.
Opportunities lie where others are weak, not where the competition is strong.
In the process, the company is raising new questions about slowing growth for the broader pre-paid phone sector, which seems to be taking a hit from both a weak consumer economy and intense competition.
But the same absence of outside competition also made them weak and sloppy.
So how do Americans plan ahead for an economic climate of weak government support, international labor competition, and technological substitution?
When the Indian market opened up, he recalls, Indian companies thought they would all have to merge with each other, because years of protection had made them too weak to face the new foreign competition.
Simply stated, we think competition is intensifying in a weak demand environment.
The research firm blamed the decline on weak consumer PC demand, due in part to competition from tablets.
Though Henican had denied it not two months before, he is being buried by competition from cut-rate cremation parlors and a weak outlook for acquisitions.
More competition, the argument goes, could exacerbate the problems of weak banks and insurers, requiring costlier government bail-outs.
Increased competition and weaker than expected acceptance of new software offerings contributed to weak operating results for much of the past decade.
Weak ones would be marginalised and maybe even killed in the cut and thrust of male competition.
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Alpha Natural Resources has endured weak demand from power utilities through an unseasonably warm winter in the U.S. and stiff competition from cheaper natural gas.
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