That was especially the case in commodities markets, where selling by index-tracking ETFs would be instantly visible to traders, unlike harder to spot sales of bullion.
All of this has already propelled the book to the No. 1 sales spot on Amazon.
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In the past, Asia was always the bright spot in PC sales but not anymore.
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ET, "Abbey Road" had already jumped to No. 21 on the album sales spot.
America was the lone bright spot, with sales up 3.6% and operating income increasing 2%.
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General Motors may be teetering on bankruptcy, but the one bright spot has been sales in China.
Toyota also re-took the top spot in global sales from GM in 2012.
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Nintendo Wii scored the second spot in unit sales with 325, 000 sold, representing a 23 percent decline compared to June 2010.
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Cookbooks are currently something of a bright spot in book sales, which declined overall by about 5% in 2008, while the cookbook category declined by only between 1% and 2%, according to Simba Information, a media research company in Stamford, Conn.
In another positive sign for the U.S. auto industry, General Motors took the top spot in China sales in 2011, displacing Japanese automaker Toyota to take a dominating share of what the Detroit automaker called its biggest international market.
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One bright spot should have been sales of the iPod digital music player, which Apple breaks out in the "peripherals and other hardware" category.
Racing ahead of rivals like Temenos of Switzerland and Misys of the U.K., Flexcube snagged the top spot in the annual sales ranking by International Banking Systems, a U.K.-based industry publication, three years ago and has hung on there.
In 2007 Ford slipped from the 2nd spot in terms of US sales when it was passed by Toyota.
First that Morrisons, which recently reported a fall in like-for-like sales, was spot on in pointing to its de minimis presence in convenience and online shopping as significant sources of weakness.
For Joachim (Joe) Eberhardt, ChryslerGroup's new executive vice president for global sales, marketing and service, Hemi sales are a bright spot in a disappointing year.
As the open market sales would be at spot-rates, which are much higher than contract prices ExxonMobil would have entered into with its major customers, this would mean an increase in profits for the company in the short term.
Auto sales were another bright spot.
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The suit also seeks to shut down sales of Huawei routers by Spot Distribution , a U.K. company.
Fakes can be hard to spot, but the best traders train sales staff to do just that: become experts in the subtle signs of bad goods in their areas of specialty.
The rising average selling price of Sony Ericsson phones as smartphones occupy more of the sales channel was a bright spot, and the four screens strategy (discussed in more depth here) is clearly a focus.
Growth in China: Sales in China were a bright spot, up 23%.
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Despite a slow opening two weeks ago, Shrek held onto the No. 1 spot last weekend amid the worst Memorial Day ticket sales in nine years, according to Box Office Mojo.
That's especially true for GM, which gets 60% of its sales from foreign markets, providing a bright spot amid an otherwise gloomy business outlook.
In fact, standard domestic beer has been the weak spot in the sector, with experts noting a 50% sales drop between 2007 and 2010.
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Already the fourth largest car market in the world in terms of sales, Brazil is poised to take the third spot from Japan within the next decade.
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Toyota, which is scheduled to release first-quarter numbers next week, dethroned GM to retake the top spot in 2012, a year in which VW posted record sales and came within 190, 000 vehicles of beating GM.
The joint venture has been the lone bright spot for the handset maker over the past year as its smartphone sales plummeted amid a tough transition to Windows Phone.
Toyota took the third spot in terms of total units sold in June, with a 60% sales increase to 177, 795.
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The national network will help health authorities spot disease outbreaks by tracking doctors' reports, admissions to hospital casualty depatments and sales of medication.
Overall, mobile sales were up 96% compared to those in 2011 with the iPad taking the top spot as it drove more than 7% of online shopping.
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