Refinancing a home is a lot like walking through a Third World market.
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With more than 206.5 million movie tickets sold in 2010, French cinema is the third largest market in world and the most successful in Europe!
As each of the big four has strengths in different markets, any that united would immediately acquire geographical spread, as well as a dominant one-third share of the world market.
The euro crisis has spread to Italy, the world's third-largest bond market, which means the stock of rich-world government debt that is considered safe has shrunk dramatically.
This lack of decision maker powers now means that Italy, the third largest bond market in the world, is facing a short term funding crunch.
In 2006, McKinsey predicted that the by 2025, the Chinese middle class would reach 612 million and China would become the third largest consumer market in the world after the U.S. and Japan.
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China has passed Germany to become the third-largest auto market in the world, after the U.S. and Japan.
It would have a 21% share of the world's third-largest grocery market after America and China.
In 2003, MoneySense magazine named Gary the third best stock market forecaster in the world, right behind Warren Buffett.
The result is that the world's third-largest wine market is fractured and largely under the control of distributors and retailers.
As their incomes rise, so will consumption, making China the third-largest consumer market in the world after the United States and Japan.
Singapore accounts for a third of the world's tropical fish market.
Vale, one of the largest iron ore exporters in the world, announces its third quarter results after market hours on Oct. 24.
The Film Distributors Association said that the UK remains the world's third largest cinema-going market, with 40 million admissions to screens around the country so far this year.
One could say a business magazine's calling is elsewhere, but I'd argue not, when a good third of the world is essentially out of the market for goods and services.
"The Iron Market is a first-class building for a third world country, " says Baucher.
The Panjiayuan "Dirt Market" not far from the China World on the Third Ring Road.
Ironically, the government's failure to restore public confidence in banks may be good news for its own postal savings system, which, as the world's biggest financial institution, controls about a third of the savings market and is badly in need of reform.
But all of those negative third years were prior to World War II, not in the post-1950 modern market era.
But Kodak is really buying something more valuable: admission to what could be the biggest film market in the world within a decade (it is already the third-largest, and is growing by 20-40% a year).
However, while Apple may always remain a third place player in China, iPhone sales will undoubtedly increase as China dominates the world smartphone market.
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The bear market that began for the Dow in January 2000 is now the third longest since World War II.
The bear market for the Dow that began in January 2000 is now the third longest since World War II.
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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It is also losing market share: Taiwan's Acer has surpassed it to become the world's third-biggest computer-maker.
The two had presided over both heady success and then precipitous decline of their signature product, the BlackBerry, which had nearly half the world market for smartphones just three years ago, but fell to only 9% in the third quarter of 2011, according to one market research report.
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The winning trio want to use a third-generation technology called W-CDMA "because it will be the standard for 80% of the world market, " says Lee Jung Sik, vice president for LG's bidding unit.
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