You can even go against the market and profit as stocks slip.

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The issue of concentration will also be big, as the hostile bid would go against the trend of fragmentation in the stock market.

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Free short-stay parking in three Oxfordshire market towns has been given the go ahead against the advice of a council's chief finance officer.

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One of the more interesting things that can happen when a company is backed up against the wall is that it figures out a way to use its strengths to go after a new market.

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One challenge facing Rousseau and David Pottruck, Schwab's co-CEO, is this: As Schwab begins to go after the high-end of the retail investment market (see story), it will find itself up against stiffer competition.

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