In the currency market, the prospect of a potential American default also remained the main consideration.
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By now, however, the economy has slow-down and the market has discounted the prospect of expiring drugs.
And here we are facing the end of a rocky market year with little prospect for a sustained rally that will lift everyone.
There is, moreover, an increasing prospect of market distortion and turmoil.
The prospect of another market crash caused by a Greek default is keeping a lot of people on the sidelines.
Next-generation e-readers and tablets have spurred interest in the prospect of a paperless magazine market.
New Zealand, which has introduced its own carbon price, has welcomed the prospect of a trans-Tasman carbon market.
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The prospect of such freedom in such a market comes as a relief after four years of tough negotiations with a plethora of government ministries.
While EnableTalk is initially targeting the deaf community, the smart glove technology that they are developing has a much broader market, one that is embracing the very real prospect of wearable computing.
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Bond investors were unenthused by the prospect of all this extra paper flooding the market, and the price of Russian bonds fell sharply.
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You might think that the invisible hand of market competition would have solved these problems, that the prospect of higher income from improved practices would have encouraged change.
The mutual dependence of PUCs and the industries they regulate explains why the prospect of losing out on a growing VoIP market sent California regulators into a tailspin.
With Clear Channel's stock trading well below its buyout value, lenders to the private equity consortium now face the prospect of lending far more than the current market value of the target company, and at a time when banks are already nervous about making loans.
Storing this information and utilizing connections between the different pieces of information is an important driver of the modern information economy and a rich prospect for hardware and software providers that serve this market.
While about half of the current market cap is in cash, the Q1 loss and the prospect of further losses ahead raise the specter of a capital crunch as the company invests in the new platform.
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At the same time the stock seemed like a good buy partly because its shares seemed to be oversold, driven down by the prospect of increasing competition, a slight loss in market share and a Securities and Exchange Commission inquiry into revenue recognition errors.
Firms like Bertelsmann , which was happy to enter the U.S. media market by acquiring Random House , apparently are less happy at the prospect of facing aggressive, U.S.-style competition on their home turf.
That's where LFL's new owners come in, getting into the growing market of litigation funding - that is, raising risk capital with the prospect of a big share of eventual pay-outs.
In Britain, the committee warned that the labour market appeared to have reached a "turning point" and that the prospect of rising unemployment was likely to depress consumer spending which had been keeping the economy afloat.
His target audience includes professional services firms in law, accounting, market research and real-estate, hoping that LinkedIn can help their partners prospect for clients, as well as banks, pharmaceutical companies and medical-device makers that see LinkedIn as a way of developing better sales contacts.
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Meanwhile the prospect of a government bailout continues to hang over Spain, according to market watchers.
"Taking Pinewood's experience and skills to that market in partnership with such an established and successful local partner is a truly exciting prospect, " said Mr Dunleavy.
The prospect of a sweeping trade-protection bill in the fall of 1929 triggered the stock market crash.
Another boost to the company's prospect is the planned introduction of a new line of laptop computers aimed at the consumer market.
The prospect of further gains will tempt Brazil to join the other soya superpowers in allowing the market to determine how much biotech seed to plant.
That, and the prospect of more years of quantitative easing, may not be welcome news to many emerging market economies, who worry that Ben Bernanke's Fed is sending a wave of cheap liquidity into their already challenged financial systems.
The prospect of a higher wage encourages people to drop out of school and participate in the labor market (where they might crowd out those who are even less productive).
In the U.K. market, Wal-Mart's Asda supermarket chain has been facing increasing competition, as well as the prospect of being prosecuted for its refusal to recognize unions.
After years of strong growth, and with the prospect of more to come, its shares are valued at 20 times trailing earnings, nearly double the market average.
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