Management believes world demand over the next decade or more will support 4 or more suppliers.
But before it could go public, world demand for memory chips tumbled -- and tumbled.
Sluggish world demand growth, coupled with expanding supply, suggests that prices will, at best, remain flat.
Also, the faster-than-expected recovery in continental Europe this year is helping to fill the hole in world demand.
The International Energy Agency puts world demand at 85.9 million barrels a day, up only slightly from 2006.
So far in 2012 futures trading is running at the shocking level of 25.2 times world demand for energy.
The number is puny in terms of global oil consumption, enough to supply world demand for approximately seven minutes.
The two previous emergency IEA actions, in 1991 and 2005, each accounted for less than 7% of world demand.
Some argue that world demand for oil is anyway likely to drop sharply in the second quarter of this year.
But after the war ended, world demand for oil surged while America gradually exhausted most of its easily-tapped domestic reserves.
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He thought world demand for computers would number only a dozen or so per year, yet IBM sold thousands of 360s.
Does any other country in the world demand that much Olympic TV?
"The events around the world demand that he act quickly, and I think you'll see him act quickly, " David Axelrod told CNN.
If oil-producing countries save much of their windfall, world demand will shrink.
Effectively addressing the complex challenges of cyber security in a globalized world demand that the public debate about cyber security move beyond such framings.
Crude oil prices are trading weaker Wednesday, amid market reports OPEC will pump more crude oil amid falling world demand due to higher prices.
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Thus China's contribution to world demand at market rates would give it greater apparent weight in the world economy than in fact it has.
Hoya has huge world demand for its patented process for melting and annealing optical glass, which shrinks production times from 26 days to three days.
In the long run, the big factors in world demand are the emergent industrial powers (China, India) and the unslakable thirst of the American motor culture.
With 700 gigawatts of new coal-fired power plants planned for the next decade, world demand could surge by a third, or 2 billion tons per year.
The fate of other firms depends on a host of factors besides child labour, from the level of world demand to the strength of the rupee.
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Overall world demand for gold declined by 0.4% in 2012.
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It reached a new quarterly record of 132 tonnes between Jan. and March 2010 (GFMS data, courtesy of the World Gold Council), equal to one-fifth of total world demand.
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Blaming alleged dumping by multinationals at a time when world demand for polyethylene is down, PT Chandra Asri is running at only 60% of capacity since it opened in May.
Venezuela seems willing to risk a few public rebukes in the short term so that, in the long term, it will be ready to respond to any surge in world demand.
On the other hand, the industries of both countries will be affected little by the slowing of regional demand: almost three-quarters of world demand for semiconductors comes from America, Europe and Japan.
At today's levels of world demand, an influx of Iraqi crude could force down prices and make other OPEC members cut production even more than they already have over the past year.
Finally, since it produces products relating to refining and construction, Grace is poised to benefit from any economic recovery in terms of construction and an increase in the world demand for oil.
But that is just America: although historically it has represented 15-50% of world demand for utility-sized gas turbines, the growth of emerging economies means that it is now just 8%, reckons Bernstein.
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