If one firm cut its prices, destroying the unspoken deal to carve up the market, it would succeed only in starting a price war.

即使一家投资银行通过降价来掠夺市场，打破了之前默认的协议，那么它也只可能在随之引发的价格战中获胜。

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Without a benchmark deal, iron ore is sold in the open market, which could leave Chinese steelmakers vulnerable to soaring prices as the world's resources sector recovers from the downturn.

如果没有一个基准价格协议，铁矿石将公开在市场上出售，这可能导致中国钢铁企业容易受到由于世界资源产业从衰退中恢复而带来的价格飙升的影响。

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The best emerging-market companies have learned a great deal from the West in recent years. It is time for Western multinationals to return the compliment.

近年来新兴市场最优秀的企业们已经如饥似渴的学习了西方经验，现在是西方公司不耻下问的时候了。

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"They're not quite there yet. There have been some serious efforts to deal with a combination of long-standing problems in the auto industry and the current crisis which has seen the market for new cars drop from 14 million [vehicles in annual sales to nine million.

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EBay has reached to an online shopping club for a way to improve its fashion credibility in the European market in a deal to buy brands4friends, the largest online club for fashion in Germany.

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Traders added that Cyprus' decision last week to sell a portion of its gold reserves as part of a bail-out deal had dealt a sharp blow to confidence in the market, arousing fears that other eurozone countries with much larger gold reserves could follow suit.

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Starz controls the pay-cable rights to movies from Disney and Sony, and signed the deal with Netflix in 2008 when online video was a much smaller market, according to the LA Times.

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