"It is functioning as a ... competitive market," Hall said.
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Toward better products and services in a more competitive market?
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Its also good to have competitive market pressure, Eustice said.
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"This market has always been a competitive market," Sanborn said.
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"Clearly it's a more competitive market out there," he said.
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"The Bay Area is such a competitive market," he said.
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Instead, neutrality was an organic outcome of a competitive market.
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There are a lot of virtues to a competitive market.
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The video streaming service market has become an extremely competitive market.
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The tech world's most competitive market is only growing more so.
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In a competitive market, I'd be congratulating Fowke and his team.
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Unlike the ABMS MOC program, continuing education is a competitive market.
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A union could also help drivers navigate the increasingly competitive market.
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"It's a competitive market," said Alan Lepofsky, analyst with Constellation Research.
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Both Apple and AT&T are joining an increasingly competitive market.
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Right, because it's a market that is not a competitive market.
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But eventually it will help further differentiate players in the competitive market.
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"It's a hyper-competitive market in the Permian right now," Mears said.
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In the US — the most competitive market — people don't want hybrids either.
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It's a less competitive market compared to Osaka or Tokyo or Hokkaido.
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UK PM JOHNSON'S SPOKESMAN SAYS IN A COMPETITIVE MARKET, COMPANIES DO FAIL
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"Increasing prices in a competitive market is a deadly solution," Genna said.
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Analysts said a competitive market for clothing retailers was harder to navigate.
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"Conservative approaches to dealing with health costs tend to revolve around a competitive market, but the challenge with rural areas is you don't have the ingredients for a competitive market," said Larry Levitt of the Kaiser Family Foundation.
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"You would have to show ... that their practices cause people to have to surrender more of their data than they would in a competitive market or look at more advertisements than they would in a competitive market," Newman said.
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Providing access to women Gould said Pandia Health's competitive market advantage is trust.
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" CenturyLink praised Thursday's decision as something that aligned regulations with "competitive market realities.
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In a competitive market, the customer will decide where to spend his money.
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We operate in a fiercely competitive market in which people connect and share.
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Austria is a highly competitive market for telecoms companies, especially in mobile broadband.
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In the brutally competitive market for smartwatches, battery life is a consistent problem.
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Ezra: In traditional economics, a competitive market drives profits down to near zero.
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Doug Hanna, COO of Grafana Labs: 'It's definitely a competitive market with Amazon.'
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Recreational pot is cheaper, partly because it is a much more competitive market.
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Trying to build an automotive manufacturer in this competitive market is difficult enough.
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This means … an ability to drive projects through in a highly competitive market.
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So there really isn't a competitive market for high-speed internet access in America.
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We don't yet know exactly how to value resiliency services in a competitive market.
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In a competitive market, there is too little incentive to innovate (hence drug patents).
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The most vibrant and competitive market I know is that for smartphones in China.
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Then, if they are clever, they drop their best footballers into a competitive market.
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The Viking spirit, backed by foreign cash, is expanding into a very competitive market.
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AMS entered the highly competitive market in 2017 by buying U.S. firm Princeton Optronics.
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Experts say the right fonts can help brands stand out in a competitive market.
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But in a competitive market where bids are tight, a good letter can help.
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For months, companies in the sector have been preparing for a more competitive market.
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Apple is entering a crowded, competitive market filled with banks and newer fintech firms.
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In a highly competitive market, government spending is crucial for stimulating growth and employment.
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The e-cigarette industry has developed from nothing to being a highly competitive market.
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That collaborative approach has helped the upstart thrive in a crowded and competitive market.
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The Department of Justice will only assess the deal's impact on the competitive market.
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In a competitive market, merchants would be incentivized to compete away the cost savings.
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Ideally, in a competitive market, you pick up your service and you go elsewhere.
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Sure, Obamacare's marketplaces are not exactly, on the whole, a robust and competitive market.
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"It's a competitive market for students — it's almost a recruitment tool," Mr. Cady said.
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Quibi will enter a highly competitive market filled with a spate of recent entrants.
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If there's only one drug that will cure you, where is the competitive market?
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Some drugs will flop once they start selling, as happens in a competitive market.
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"Swiggy has shown impressive growth in a highly competitive market," said Sharma in a statement.
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But this may simply be the mark of a more competitive market, says CBOE's Hemsley.
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Economic logic implies that earning above-normal profits is extremely difficult in a competitive market.
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It is a competitive market with thousands of growers, known as caregivers under state law.
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Companies argue the data are key to retaining an edge in an already competitive market.
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Cash in this competitive market is king, so it follows that mortgage demand would weaken.
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DoorDash is investing heavily in a highly competitive market that includes GrubHub and Uber Eats.
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More broadly, the competitive market means there's not much money to claim in selling phones.
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And there is clear evidence that competitive market forces, by themselves, don't prevent bad schools.
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Obamacare's future might not look like the brand new, competitive market that health plans envisioned.
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Manufacturers designed rival versions, creating a competitive market that made the AR-15 more affordable.
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San Francisco continues to be the most competitive market, with a 28% bidding war rate.
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Grocers are rushing to take advantage of this potential, resulting in a highly competitive market.
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"The individual insurance market was not a competitive market before the ACA passed," Cox said.
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Both devices are entering a competitive market against similar models from Amazon, Google, and even Apple.
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"The only way to keep winning in a competitive market is to keep innovating," he said.
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"Risk is a very competitive market," said Liam O'Mahoney, of head-hunter Eames Consulting in London.
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"Ideally, in a competitive market, you pick up your service and you go elsewhere," Rosenworcel said.
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This attracted more health plans, created a profitable and competitive market, and attracted many more enrollees.
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Miami was the least competitive market in July, with just over 1% of offers facing competition.
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But good governance means eliminating barriers to a competitive market that do more harm than good.
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It's clear the company has taken a thoughtful approach to its entry in this competitive market.
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We don't have an open, competitive market where the patients know the price before they pay.
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Paying more for energy makes no sense when the competitive market is driving energy prices down.
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But growers like Ms. Haywood see the distinction as an opportunity in an intensely competitive market.
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The move underscores the challenges North American sporting goods manufacturers face in their highly competitive market.
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Unfortunately, actions that politicize and regulate one aspect of a competitive market rarely have ever worked.
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Producers there have wrung costs out of their factories to survive in a brutally competitive market.
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The delivery business is big in China, but Best is fifth in a very competitive market.
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Shifting consumer tastes and competition from new brands has made packaged food products a competitive market.
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So that challenge is always there and the US of course is an increasingly competitive market.
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The U.K. by comparison is a less competitive market at the moment for small-scale payments.
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It's currently a very competitive market, so chances are, you're going to have to make compromises.
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In the open and competitive market, such industries could not have survived without protection and subsidies.
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The company's troubles highlight the challenges North American sporting goods manufacturers face in the highly competitive market.
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"It's an intensely competitive market with more than 30 suppliers competing for customers," said an SSE spokesman.
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Brokerage Zephirin Group started coverage with a "sell" rating, citing a very competitive market for visual sharing.
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It's a competitive market for turkeys, and price is only one of many considerations for Thanksgiving consumers.
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CHRIS HUGHES: And, what's more, I mean, the eCommerce space, again, it's not a particularly competitive market.
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Schruers, intent on earning his paycheck, insisted up, down, and sideways that search is a competitive market.
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"We're in probably the most competitive market of the all the teams presently [in NWSL]," Stoller says.
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Thiel argued that it's much better to run a monopoly than a company in a competitive market.
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It has added customers faster than rivals and triggered a price war in the highly competitive market.
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In a competitive market, customers can choose other companies like Lyft, which may collect less personal information.
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Monopoly power — by definition — gives firms the ability to raise prices above those in a competitive market.
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Read More: The theatrics are apparently part of Sequoia's schtick to stand out in a competitive market.
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But it also could face an increasingly competitive market not just for clients, but also for space.
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"It's a very competitive market so we will continue to ... be very aggressive on fares," he said.
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The company then shifted to voice analytics, a more competitive market with a number of existing players.
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Labor, space, and the competitive market landscape reduce premiums on deals in places outside prominent startup ecosystems.
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Most states have opened their 103 plans to investors nationwide, creating a competitive market among state plans.
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At the same time, Verma said her role was to foster a competitive market for private insurers.
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Employment, we calculate, is 123 to 212 percent less than it would be in a competitive market.
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That's the simplest route, particularly in a competitive market where the supply chain is not easily moved.
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It's hard to argue that you have a robust, competitive market when you see figures like those.
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With an already competitive market and barriers to internet accessibility, Spotify will hope that listeners tune in.
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"It gives the UK access to the world's leading technology and ensures a competitive market," Zhang said.
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Cloud and web services is a highly competitive market in which Amazon is also expanding its footprint.
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The company operates in an intensively competitive market against vendors including Apple, Amazon, Box, Google and Microsoft.
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Hiring is a major focus area for startups amid an increasingly competitive market for the best talent.
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Neon's products are helping to bring banking services to a famously complex and competitive market in Brazil.
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Competitive UK Communications Market: Fitch views the UK, by far Sky's largest individual market, a particularly competitive market.
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It's going to be interesting to see whether Apple can capture market share in such a competitive market.
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"This is a very competitive market," Jevgeni Kabanov, chief product officer at Bolt, told Reuters in an interview.
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Lawmakers are also expected to grill Pichai on issues related to data privacy and anti-competitive market behavior.
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This award goes to the individual who has elevated their company to new heights in a competitive market.
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The idea is that the monopolist's profits should not exceed the level that a competitive market would allow.
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That kind of high spending is necessary due to the increasingly competitive market for rights to other content.
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The U.S. is a slower growing and far more competitive market (hello Amazon Prime, Hulu and HBO Go).
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Its efforts to build a more competitive market for the middle class are the parts that keep failing.
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More Americans acquired cellphones, and with a robust and competitive market, changing plans, providers and numbers became common.
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In a competitive market firms will enter and leave specific markets in response to commercial attractiveness and potential.
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Housing costs continue to outpace the overall cost of living, creating an incredibly competitive market in many areas.
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Consumers today benefit from a vibrant, competitive market that has evolved and innovated for years without government interference.
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In today's incredibly competitive market, some sellers are getting offers without home tours or getting tour requests immediately.
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Home-goods retailers are in a competitive market these days — and not every store is making the cut.
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Health plan startups are vying for a foothold in the ultra-competitive market of selling insurance to seniors.
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"In a duopoly there is little to no competitive market pressure that would curtail these practices," Jasper said.
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A federal consumer privacy law should also ensure that American companies continue to lead a globally competitive market.
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Alexa has become a household name in an increasingly competitive market for smart assistants and in-home speakers.
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Before she left in 2003, she would win five local Emmy Awards in the nation's most competitive market.
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In a competitive market, firms and entrepreneurs are forced to offer their best wares at the best prices.
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As a result, I got over 50% market share in a luxury condo building in a competitive market.
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We see competitive market forces continuing to have more impact on coal producers then any change in regulations.
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"It's a highly competitive market, and we've seen more aggressive pricing and promotions in categories like home," she said.
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According to Leve, this is all intentional: "In today's competitive market, consumers want to know you care," he says.
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Even for a heavily funded company like Amazon, India has emerged as a very competitive market in recent years.
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While Tesla's electric vehicles are gaining popularity, its solar business has been in retreat in an ultra-competitive market.
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Check out the story below to learn more about the competitive market that has popped up around your teeth.
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I don't think it will be easily to pass through higher prices because we are in a competitive market.
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But entrepreneurs also face challenges like learning a new craft, a difficulty raising funds and an increasingly competitive market.
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Ocado slumped 12.7 percent after the online grocer warned of sustained margin pressure due to an intensely competitive market.
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Yet bank executives argue that, in a competitive market, they need to be footsteps away from the best customers.
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" Kroger: "This is a very competitive market, and I've got to tell you, the supermarkets don't have enough inflation.
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The German airline recently bought parts of Air Berlin's business after it, too, failed, in Europe's fiercely competitive market.
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On a conference call with investors following the earnings release, however, he said it was a very competitive market.
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With big players like CVS Health already offering similar services, ZipDrug will have to break into a competitive market.
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Samsung also acknowledged that its own smartphone business is struggling in a "stagnant and fiercely competitive market," CNBC wrote.
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In a competitive market, though, advantaged people still end up leveraging their advantages: that is why Happy Host exists.
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On the other hand, the question is whether we're seeing insurers designed for this more competitive market rise up.
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Instead, more companies are turning to artificial intelligence to boost productivity and stay relevant in a fiercely competitive market.
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Despite U.S. sales falling 7.3 percent this year, Kerssemakers is optimistic about Volvo's position in a highly competitive market.
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Byte enters a competitive market, given social media has evolved considerably since Vine&aposs heydey in the early 2010s.
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And so Europe started from a starting point of a pretty not-competitive market, but got better over time.
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Ocado slumped 13.7 percent after the online grocer warned of sustained margin pressure due to an intensely competitive market.
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Japan is a fiercely competitive market, Garduno added, with Coca-Cola launching 100 products a year in the country.
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Recently, the F.C.C. dropped this investigation — believing that this kind of bundling is now commonplace in a competitive market.
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But coming up with the required funds can be tough — especially for cash-strapped millennials in today's competitive market.
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"This merger will create a globally competitive market infrastructure group benefiting our customers, shareholders and the wider economy," he added.
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"San Francisco obviously has a very competitive market — it's harder to hire and very difficult to retain talent," he added.
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It also brings Alipay into the same competitive market as US-based giants like Apple Play, Android Pay, and PayPal.
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A healthy competitive market and a variety of options are what we all need to keep providing the best products.
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The move is meant to make Starz' app more engaging, in the now highly competitive market for video streaming services.
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A competitive market of cashless financial services is good news for the future of financial inclusion in mobile-savvy India.
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Fitch expects RNR to maintain its historically strong underwriting discipline and leading competitive market position in the consolidating reinsurance sector.
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As business leaders, we rely on global research and technological advances to develop accurate business models in a competitive market.
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This is unlike large companies who buy insurance in a more competitive market with better-quality plans that cost less.
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Messrs Rothschild and Stiglitz showed that, in a competitive market, insurers cannot profitably offer the same deal to both groups.
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Ballmer got mixed results out of the acquisition of Skype, which remains a popular service in a very competitive market.
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In a competitive market, developers have started offering rebates, furniture vouchers and other incentives to woo buyers, Mr. Adis said.
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The next evolution of the set-top box is not a competitive market; it's the elimination of the box outright.
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One of its rivals, GoPro, quit the drone market last year, citing difficulties with regulators and an extremely competitive market.
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The major manufacturers of lacrosse equipment are not saying much, perhaps fearful of tipping their hands in a competitive market.
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So drivers gain the potential for more business while Uber increases its pool of cars in a fiercely competitive market.
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The highly competitive market has forced smaller rivals to exit and prompted Idea to merge operations with Vodafone's Indian unit.
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"In a competitive market, Verizon and AT&T cannot afford to ignore each other," Recon Analytics analyst Roger Entner said.
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If you don't like most goods or services in a competitive market, you can move on and find someone else.
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"It's a very competitive market, and we kept walking into houses that weren't quite right," the mom-of-two explains.
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Some comments suggested the bank was using Brexit as an excuse to leave Britain's competitive market for banking start-ups.
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In a competitive market, those high margins ought to present an opportunity for rivals to invest and steal market share.
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The fact that professors choose and students buy destroys whatever power a competitive market might have to keep prices lower.
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To fully leverage consumer power in a newly competitive market, the supply of medical care must also be strategically increased.
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To cope with the increasingly competitive market, Halo Top wants to make sure it is "best in class," Woolverton said.
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In a competitive market, if Comcast puts Netflix at a disadvantage, then a customer can call one of Comcast's competitors.
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Starling operates in a very competitive market, with well-funded startups such as Monzo, Revolut and N26 all iterating quite quickly.
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A vibrant and highly competitive market for dockless bikes emerged seemingly out of thin air, as Crunchbase News has previously covered.
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I'm confident that as a businessman you would much prefer a monopoly achieved by any means necessary to a competitive market.
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And Europe is the world's most competitive market: for mass-market carmakers, profits are much harder to eke out than elsewhere.
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GoPro has announced that it's exiting the drone business, citing the challenges of turning a profit in an "extremely competitive" market.
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Altice's share price has halved since it reported disappointing quarterly results in France earlier this month amid a fiercely competitive market.
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On one hand, this flurry of trades can simply be seen as churn reflecting rational behaviour in a healthy, competitive market.
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Enbrel sales fell 13 percent to $1.37 billion due to lower demand and net selling price in a highly competitive market.
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But it's a competitive market with many countries scrapping for a share of the cash being invested by foreign tech companies.
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In 2017, PayPal is far from the only other company working in online payments, and it's a crowded and competitive market.
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A new IP in a highly competitive market, made in tandem with Uncharted 3, it was so far from a certainty.
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It's a dangerous and competitive market, but their product is well thought out and could make data plays down the line.
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Analysts had said that BJ's debut in a competitive market was "sensible" as investors' confidence in the retail sector had risen.
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Excessive market power can be defined as the ability to raise prices above what would be charged in a competitive market.
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If you, the customer, don't like any of this, you're out of luck, since there is no competitive market for devices.
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Engines are massively expensive (up to $35 million each) and are sold into a highly competitive market that keeps margins low.
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There is no duty to bargain in good faith imposed on resistant employers that upsets the operation of any competitive market.
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Now, there is a competitive market in which merchants can choose between at least two different networks to process debit transactions.
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Gottlieb has been vocal about his mission to lower drug prices and the agency's role in helping foster a competitive market.
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But the company has made some missteps along the way, as it tried to keep up with the increasingly competitive market.
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It's likely that as this competitive market grows, so will the meat industry's desperation to squash it any way they can.
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Chasing the Deal Often to gain traction in a competitive market, new hotels open with attractive rates in their initial season.
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As I have said ad nauseam this year, VCs are in a hyper-competitive market like we have never seen before.
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It is not the first time that TIM and Telefonica join forces to broaden their operations amid an increasingly competitive market.
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It is not the first time that TIM and Telefonica join forces to broaden their operations amid an increasingly competitive market.
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The unregulated, ruthlessly competitive market leaves American workers struggling to value their labor and artistic intellectual property without veering into exploitation.
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The debacle has become a prime example of how startups can take aim at each other in the region's competitive market.
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Meanwhile, Jasmin's strategy to focus on the less competitive market upcountry should help mitigate risks, at least in the short term.
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Kim said he believes that level of detail is what has helped set his business apart in an exceedingly competitive market.
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"First-time buyers, for the most part, tend to be buying in the most competitive market," said Ms. Lurie of Compass.
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"We operate in a fiercely competitive market for services which help people connect, discover, communicate and share," a Facebook spokesperson told me.
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In an increasingly competitive market for talent, employees are selective and choose employers based on a variety of factors, including philosophical alignment.
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Management noted it is seeing a reduction in rider incentives across the industry and believes overall the current competitive market is rationalizing.
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Goldman Sachs believes all possible coalition governments after April 28 would be committed to the European project and a competitive market economy.
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Taking a significant slice of this competitive market will not be easy, but Apple is confident that it can make an impression.
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Still, as the Streaming Wars heat up, it's unclear what the WarnerMedia package can offer most consumers in an aggressive, competitive market.
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In the increasingly competitive market for talent, tech companies are leading a new type of labor innovation: retraining as the new recruiting.
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Rather than being less free, Liu said it is the "most competitive market ever," pointing to Didi's hard-fought battle with Uber.
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It has seen its business model threatened by online retailers who have made inroads into an increasingly competitive market in recent years.
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I guess I'm asking you, do you agree that's not a competitive market when it's operating 94 percent of the market share.
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The deal presents a lifeline for a company that has been looking for ways to keep customers in a highly competitive market.
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SoundCloud Go arrived late to a highly competitive market with little to distinguish it from formidable incumbents like Spotify and Apple Music.
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It would also create a competitive market in which drug producers can compete on price and quality and improve both over time.
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As for the destructive turn in a competitive market, well, conflicts about capitalism are a major theme for historians and political scientists.
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In a more competitive market, upstart firms would hire labour and pressure big firms to use their cash for job-creating investments.
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But embedding diversity and inclusion into our work helps us to punch above our weight in the highly competitive market for attention.
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After a year marred by volatile weather in the UK, motor insurers have struggled with strained prices in a highly competitive market.
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In a competitive market, companies recognize the benefits of training from within to move existing employees into higher and better paying positions.
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Low-Margin Business LOL's competitive market positioning is balanced against its exposure to volatile commodity products with low single-digit EBITDA margins.
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Mia Aesthetics is a plastic surgery company looking for a social media manager to help them stand out in Miami's competitive market.
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It's the latest move by the Yum Brands-owned pizza company, which has struggled in a competitive market to regain its lead.
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America's vision for energy independence could also include policies to promote a competitive market for alternative transportation fuels, breaking the gasoline monopoly.
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"Many of the regulations are written by businesses that want to insulate themselves from the rigors of the competitive market," said Johnston.
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"[The Fleshlight] really helped change the game for men's sex toys and establish a competitive market for male masturbation toys," he says.
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In a normal, competitive market, the price of a product should rise and fall along with the cost of producing that product.
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Private credit funds are recruiting co-investors to reduce their costs, while continuing to underwrite large tickets in an increasingly competitive market.
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The least competitive market in September was Miami, with a 2% bidding war rate and then Dallas and Austin, Texas, at 3%.
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What's left is a greatly contracted, less competitive market, in which costs have gone up and patient choice has increasingly gone away.
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Why investors are disappointed in Snapchat Snapchat (SNAP) is now consistently adding users and growing its business in a highly competitive market.
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In the 2202s, labor leaders sought to retrofit collective bargaining to a sector where competitive market forces are less threatening — the government.
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Adobe is sharpening its focus on the fast-growing cloud business, a fiercely competitive market dominated by Microsoft Corp, Oracle Corp and Salesforce.
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Because financial advisors need to differentiate themselves in this competitive market with a niche to attract and retain clients, according to experts say.
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It's aimed squarely at Microsoft's Skype for Business or Cisco's WebEx service, and joins many startups like Zoom in an increasingly competitive market.
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"In this fast-changing, very competitive market, the question is whether the founder will have the skills to right the ship," said Bishop.
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Those policies are pro-business (in the sense that they favor existing businesses), but they are harmful and distort a competitive market economy.
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The competitive market has some experts worrying for several reasons: First, the compensation packages in Silicon Valley often include shares in a company.
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In the US, UberEats competes with Grubhub, Seamless and Postmates, while in a competitive market like London it's up against JustEat and Deliveroo.
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So far 20113 Typhoons have been sold to eight customers in a very competitive market, but orders from the Middle East have slowed.
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The rating also takes into account the country's developing and competitive market conditions, as well as the evolving regulations in the insurance sector.
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Firms can offer wages below the competitive-market rate knowing that many workers will not be able to afford to turn them down.
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Paytm, India's top digital wallet and payment service, has introduced a chat feature to amp up its appeal among an increasingly competitive market.
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The app gained popularity by providing a sleek service to last-minute travelers, but operates in a highly competitive market that features Booking.
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We however conservatively assume close-to-zero like-for-like (LfL) sales growth over the medium term due to the competitive market environment.
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" AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson noted that unlimited data plans increase mobile video usage and "made an already competitive market even more so.
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In the conference call, Stephenson acknowledged that AT&T's response to unlimited plans was "probably a little slow" in an "already competitive market".
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Fortunately for you, the optimistic fan, Oculus appears to recognize the importance of a healthy, competitive market with a variety of pricing points.
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The diesel scandal hit VW's U.S. dealers at a time when the automaker's product portfolio was already suffering in a highly competitive market.
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Car buyers may be affected, too, though they're now benefiting from a highly competitive market for auto loans that's keeping borrowing costs low.
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AND IF THE COMPANY DOESN'T INNOVATIVE, DOESN'T LAUNCH A COMPETITIVE MARKET, THEY'RE GOING TO LOSE SIGNIFICANT MARKET SHARE IN THAT PART OF BUSINESS.
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"A big challenge for the company is that motor insurance is a very competitive market," said Russ Mould, investment director at AJ Bell.
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"We again have a competitive market in Kansas for 2019 with every county having plan choices available from multiple insurance carriers," he said.
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Analysts are skeptical of the profit targets as India is a highly cost-competitive market and lightweight bikes are historically lower-margin products.
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Without a competitive market, and a tax code that encourages growth for job creators, the American middle class will continue to fall behind.
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"It's a hyper-competitive market, there's immense amounts of capital flushing around it," Khosla said at a fintech conference in London last week.
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The 5.2-inch Xperia XZ1 and 4.6-inch XZ1 compact are the Japanese electronics giant's latest devices launched into the increasingly competitive market.
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The proposed competitive market test "may result in reduced choices for small businesses," S.B.A. officials said in a public filing about the meeting.
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Technology companies in particular are adopting new health programs as another way to attract and retain talent in the hyper-competitive market for engineers.
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"Most pinky rings are either inspired by traditional men's signet rings, or are simply thin little bands," Far told Racked of the competitive market.
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This is a highly competitive market in Paris, as there have been quite a few full-stack food startups over the past few years.
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Apple's flagship business took a hit when the company rolled out overpriced iPhones last fall, adding pressure to the already saturated and competitive market.
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Advanced tech projects also help Uber to recruit and retain engineering talent in the hyper-competitive market of San Francisco where it is headquartered.
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Allowing VW "to flood a competitive market with $2 billion in goods threatens the survival of the current participants in that market," ChargePoint said.
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The German telecoms group is considering exiting the Netherlands because it is a very competitive market where consumers are shifting to all-inclusive packages.
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The more market power a firm has, the greater its ability to set prices above the level that would prevail in a competitive market.
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"LendLease's stage two offer did not meet the government's expectations, so we are looking for another builder in a competitive market," John Sidoti said.
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Companies including Nestle, Unilever and Campbell Soup have all pursued divestitures as they try to boost profits and efficiency in an increasingly competitive market.
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Too many technology industry leaders trusted in the rationality of human nature or believed that a competitive market of ideas would protect the truth.
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Both are valued well north of $1 billion, the traditional unicorn mark, but have yet to turn a profit in a widely competitive market.
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In a textbook definition of a perfectly competitive market, there are zero abnormal profits, which means zero profits above a proper return to capital.
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"It's still a very competitive market; we are looking at 16 million AR-15s that are in private ownership today in America," he said.
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One of the biggest challenges that I face is hiring experienced, qualified engineers and designers to continue innovating in a fast-paced, competitive market.
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"Thirty days is not enough time to separate real sales trends from short-term fluctuations in a very dynamic, highly competitive market," said McNeil.
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"Reputation is crucial in a competitive market, and the wiretaps show how much value smugglers place on their reputation," Campana said in a statement.
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But in Sunday's episode, these issues come to a head as Issa grapples with trying to find an apartment in a highly competitive market.
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These agreements may well be illegal under antitrust laws, which protect not only a competitive market in products but also a competitive labor market.
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The suit comes as the electric car maker has been trying to revive its solar business, which has struggled in a fiercely competitive market.
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While putting a GMO label on a product is truthful, it works brilliantly to create a competitive market advantage because it is also misleading.
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In a competitive market, market forces put downward pressure on prices and if a competitor tries to raise his price, he loses market share.
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Big, established players in China's education market are trying to make the most of the trend in what can be a highly competitive market.
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Newsrooms around the globe have been forced to cut staff or shut down entirely in an increasingly competitive market for readers and ad dollars.
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In many states, including California, the transmission system was "deregulated" in the late 1990s, which meant that wholesale power generation became a competitive market.
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Sub categories: Franchises, full-serviceFull-service restaurants are a competitive market, and rising labor costs add pressure to anyone looking to start their own.
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So increasingly our whole lives operate as if there's some kind of competitive market where all we're supposed to do is beat other people.
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Even without tariffs, automakers and analysts were already expecting U.S. new vehicle sales to fall in 2018 versus last year, creating a highly competitive market.
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Left, of Citron Research, said in a report that Motorola Solutions has been relying on sales to government first responders in a non-competitive market.
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Shaw Communications has been investing heavily to develop its next generation 5G network in a highly competitive market to lure more subscribers to its fold.
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He said the company charges customers in the U.K. substantially less than its government clients in the U.S., due largely to a more competitive market.
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"We don't have a competitive market because we are not requiring price transparency," Seema Verma, administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, told CNN.
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Samsung said marketing expenses and flat sales volumes led to a decline in profitability in a "stagnant and fiercely competitive market" in the smartphone business.
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"The company has not achieved its projected premium volume, due to the current competitive market environment in property catastrophe reinsurance," Best said at the time.
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Today, Google, Microsoft, IBM and many others have joined the fray in a fiercely competitive market, but AWS still dominates it, at least for now.
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A competitive market means that car manufacturers must keep investing to add new features while keeping prices down; that may mean replacing people with machines.
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"I just don't see competitive, market leading businesses among those remaining," said the executive, who declined to be identified given the sensitivity of the matter.
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The unit could attract interest from other insurers that already have this product line and are seeking scale in that competitive market, the sources added.
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Dressbarn, a household name for over 50 years, has struggled to grow sales in a competitive market where it battles with online retailers like Amazon.
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Walking the subdued floors found hardware vendors despondent about their chances in a hyper-competitive market and consumers who increasingly favor smartphones instead of PCs.
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That is why a true reform bill must fundamentally separate air traffic control from the government and expose it to a free and competitive market.
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A large number of these brands have gone away due to mergers as airlines joined together in order to survive the brutally competitive market place.
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But in a competitive market, it may not be able to raise prices and, in fact, may have to offer significant discounts to lure customers.
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The former would make it hard for Uber to expand in a competitive market, while the latter impeded the deployment of Uber's surge-pricing model.
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They emphasize the FCC's recent conclusion that there is already a robust supply of fiber infrastructure and a competitive market capable of meeting backhaul needs.
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Banks may find it harder to push back on fees, due to the need to maintain good relationships with sponsors in a brutally competitive market.
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It will take some time to see whether Apple can succeed as a streaming service, joining giants like Netflix and Hulu in a competitive market.
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"It's a very competitive market, and there are a lot of projects," said Lauren Witkoff, the executive vice president of sales and marketing at Witkoff.
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While the other three traditional groups have upped their game in recent years, Asda is still struggling to attract shoppers in the highly competitive market.
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He catches up with Wendy's CEO Todd Penegor to get more insight into how the restaurant chain's breakfast strategy will work in a competitive market.
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The resulting scarcity of spectrum means that consumers pay higher prices for inferior mobile broadband service than they would in a more competitive market environment.
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"It's a very competitive market" for both buyers and sellers of the high-capacity weapon, said Mark Oliva, spokesman for the gun owners advocacy group.
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Attendance took a decided drop last year, and the lack of a competitive market has set players in pro sports' most powerful union to grumbling.
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The bank said that the optimal strategy in a highly competitive market that is under lots of pressure to cut excess capacity is to get bigger.
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"It's a competitive market and a lot of banks on the top of the list tend to stay there," said Greg McBride, Bankrate's chief financial analyst.
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The Brampton-based company has ramped up its online presence in a highly competitive market and sold all of its gas stations to simplify its business.
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However, Strayer and Capella have managed to find a way to cope with regulatory constraints and differentiate themselves in the highly competitive market, according to analysts.
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Yes, we are breaking things along the way, but we are moving fast just like we need to be because it is a highly competitive market.
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Yum, which has over 48,000 Pizza Hut, Taco Bell and KFC restaurants across the globe, is among several restaurant chains facing a tough and competitive market.
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"The sale of Kipa reflects the particular strategic challenge we have faced in Turkey as a small regional player in a highly competitive market," said Lewis.
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In other words, you need to demonstrate that you can sell your product in a bigger, more competitive market before turning the heads of international investors.
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"Valeant, unlike many other companies, has never really been interested in participating in a competitive market," a spokeswoman for the company, Premier, said in a statement.
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It would facilitate the conditions for a competitive market with many players and many new innovations, all while preserving our democratic values and improving our society.
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SolarCity shares have fallen more than 50 percent this year in a highly competitive market, fanning criticism that a Tesla deal was meant to save SolarCity.
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An FCC official said that the item, which has been circulated to the other four commissioners, does not try to define what constitutes a competitive market.
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CEO Lowell McAdam said the results showed that the company can turn a profit and give back money to shareholders even in a highly competitive market.
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SG joined in this revival but said "weaker asset financing in a highly competitive market", which is also included in this figure, offset better performances elsewhere.
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BTMU's entry should accelerate Security Bank's growth in a highly competitive market, executives of the Philippine lender said on Thursday after signing the strategic partnership agreement.
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The U.S. Photoshop maker is sharpening its focus on the fast-growing cloud business, a fiercely competitive market dominated by Microsoft Corp, Oracle Corp and Salesforce.
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These arrangements offer an additional advantage: Owners can arrange highly favorable contracts in which their nursing homes pay more than they might in a competitive market.
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Workday has been trying to become a one-step solution for all back-office services for small and medium sized businesses in a fiercely competitive market.
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In a competitive market, the introduction of comparative-ratings system means that brands will be forced to consider the security of products in their business models.
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Breaking up that ecosystem will "create a competitive market for search engines, mobile operating systems, internet browsers (and) the supply of digital advertising," the company said.
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Startups should think about IP along the lines of a portfolio specifically created to protect their particular business goals and strategy, in light of competitive market forces.
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In addition, "rather than establish a new brand in a very competitive market," he said, a Chinese company "can buy a brand and keep it" as theirs.
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Why we picked Glide: While desktop website makers is a brutally competitive market, it's still not easy to make a mobile site if you're not a coder.
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That product, the only gadget launched publicly by Building 8, is a video-calling device that's failed thus far to gain traction in a highly competitive market.
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If distractions/interruptions persist, people will simply find another job—because a corporate culture that doesn't understand the HPE is supremely dispensable in our hyper-competitive market.
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The key to succeeding in what he says is a very competitive market is keeping both sides of the market happy, not merely matching supply and demand.
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In a perfectly competitive market markups are winnowed away to nothing while the more market power a firm has the more it is able to impose markups.
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Google entering a crowded, competitive market This is Google's first foray into delivering fresh produce, which has historically proven to be high cost and low profit yielding.
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The increasingly competitive market will also make firms keener to eke out benefits from efficiencies of scale, increased diversification, cost-cutting opportunities and more efficient capital management.
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Philadelphia is a very competitive market, with several large academic health systems all offering state-of-the-art facilities and vying for patients with private insurance plans.
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This takes place when the owners of an input of production—labour, machines, intellectual property, capital—extract more profit than they would get in a competitive market.
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"These policy changes advance U.S. national security and foreign policy because they make FMS more attractive in a very competitive market," Hooper said in a DSCA statement.
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"The group expects to maintain its disciplined pricing strategy in the ongoing competitive market that is likely to continue for the rest of the year," Hastings said.
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But as Google itself grew, it came to be the target of possible regulatory action rather than simply the beneficiary of a competitive market in allied industries.
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Google's argument, that the presence of large rivals like Amazon and eBay are proof of a competitive market, has so far fallen on deaf ears in Brussels.
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These sharks aren't afraid to face a competitive market for business investments and loans with both their checkbooks and by rolling up their sleeves and getting grimy.
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LONDON — It may not seem entirely rational to introduce a watch brand in today's highly competitive market, but Don Cochrane is not a man driven by reason.
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At least six brokerages, including Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs, rated the stock "buy" or higher, citing the company's long-term growth in a highly competitive market.
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Airlines based in these countries — Etihad, Emirates, and Qatar Airways (Gulf carriers) — are growing at a faster rate than one dictated by a normal and competitive market.
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VESTBERG: IF YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT THE WIRELESS CONSUMER BUSINESS, I THINK FIRST OF ALL IT IS A COMPETITIVE MARKET AND IT HAS GREAT COMPETITORS FIGHTING EVERY DAY.
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Pioneer's existence is partially the result of an advent of remote work and communication tools, but another real enabler is the competitive market for early-stage investing.
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In the case of loans for college students, the chimerical goal of creating a competitive market distracts from the real problems faced by colleges and their students.
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The law establishes an independent communications regulator accountable to the prime minister and will be responsible for promoting a competitive market, draft legislation seen by Reuters showed.
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"The UK was particularly hard hit with very high levels of promotional activity coming on top of an already competitive market for holidays to Spain," the company said.
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That's better than anyone else, this is a competitive market, if shoppers are not able to earn a competitive wage on Instacart they will defect to other platforms.
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The company is attempting to start fresh with the Xperia 1, and it's hoping its massive 4K display will allow it to stand out in a competitive market.
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The company's market position is deepened by its loyal and productive career agency distribution channel, which Fitch believes reduces pricing pressure and anti-selection in competitive market environments.
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The company is modernizing its stores by introducing digital menus and adding wooden tables and faux leather chairs as it seeks to attract diners in a competitive market.
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It's a competitive market, but Pluralsight has built a big business around online software development courses, helping people hone their skills in categories like IT, data and security.
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"Today's decision underlines the importance of a functioning competitive market to foster the development and dissemination of cost-efficient low-emission technologies," the Commission said in a statement.
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Whilst the Mate 9's release has been lucky in terms of its timing, the smartphone is likely to face stiff competition in a very competitive market space.
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Deutsche Telekom is weighing an exit from the Netherlands because it is a very competitive market where consumers are quickly shifting to all-inclusive mobile and fixed bundles.
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The company said net fuel margins per liter fell in a competitive market, which has also been hit by the implementation of a carbon tax in some regions.
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Revenues in its international carrier business fell by 12.9 percent, as income from selling wholesale access to international phone calls declined in what Proximus called a competitive market.
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Ocean shipping might not be as flashy as drone deliveries, but it's a move by Amazon to stay on top of the game in an increasingly competitive market.
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Deutsche Bank lowered its rating on T-Mobile shares to hold from buy, citing a more difficult competitive market due to the expansion of unlimited wireless plan offerings.
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Despite a rise in global travel demand, airlines are trying to avoid adding too many seats to a competitive market, particularly as high fuel prices eat into profits.
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The merger "allows us particularly in a very competitive market online and with discounters to give much greater value to our customers and that's very important," he added.
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Home prices have been rising steadily since the recession, but the gains are suddenly accelerating as spring demand heats up in an already highly lean and competitive market.
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Germany's banks are plagued by low profitability in a competitive market, and Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank have started merger talks to achieve economies of scale and cut costs.
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"Additional work on excessive overdraft charges is certainly welcome, but it probably won't be enough unless the consumer is offered meaningful choice in a competitive market," Tyrie said.
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If you had a high-deductible plan, the ability to actually shop for value in a competitive market would let you realize the savings potential of your plan.
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"In this competitive market, most of the agents are sort of abiding by the Thursday, Friday and then taking offers on Tuesday," said Karen Kelly, also with Compass.
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Startups like Snowflake, Incorta and Panoply stepped in to address this need creating a growing and highly-competitive market that's expected to be worth $100 billion by 2025.
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The company said net fuel margins per litre fell in a competitive market, which has also been hit by the implementation of a carbon tax in some regions.
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For NVIDIA, it seems like a small price to pay for a new shot at growth and a chance to quickly gain share in an increasingly competitive market.
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Even after a breakup, Facebook would be a hugely profitable business with billions to invest in new technologies — and a more competitive market would only encourage those investments.
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The firm declined to disclose any figures on revenues or losses, and said it made no sense to do so due to the competitive market it operates in.
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And although its performance in its problematic British market improved, it was still down 2.7 percent, with enterprise revenue declining in what it said was a competitive market.
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Many in the moderate centre hope that from this catharsis will come a political model that preserves a competitive market economy while creating a European-style welfare state.
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"The steps we are undertaking will make us sustainable in a highly competitive market, creating a platform for growth," said Tulsi Naidu, chief executive of Zurich's UK business.
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"The combined BT and EE will be a digital champion for the UK, providing high levels of investment and driving innovation in a highly competitive market," he said.
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Oh yeah, lest we forget, Uber employees still at the company have to run its complex business operations in a deeply competitive market as if nothing were wrong.
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In contrast, online services were a more competitive market and a market that was still in its infancy, so Congress wanted to shield it from excessive FCC regulation.
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The plaintiffs are consumers who argued that Apple used its monopoly power to charge them more for their iPhone apps than they would have paid in a competitive market.
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It says that in a competitive market, prices are a signal of the marginal value of goods to consumers as well as the marginal cost of goods to producers.
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"As business leaders, we must continue to embrace the issues resonating most with these two generations, or risk losing out on talent in an increasingly competitive market," she added.
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The CMA said that between 2012 and 2015 customers may have been paying around 1.7 billion pounds a year more than they would have done in a competitive market.
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The new cash should also help LOLA in an increasingly competitive market — startups like Cora and Le Parcel have come onto the scene with a similar subscription-based offering.
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The two groups - the second and third biggest players in the competitive market behind BT's EE - said they would also upgrade their transmission networks with higher capacity fibre cables.
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This is the term economists use when the owners of an input of production—land, labour, machines, capital—extract more profit than they would get in a competitive market.
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To get noticed in such a competitive market would require a bold play and Wolfpack's majority owner, Australian mining tycoon David Argyle, has apparently put his money on Williams.
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"We just do not agree with introducing price controls into a competitive market which will reduce competition and choice, and therefore impact consumers," the company said in a statement.
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There's a risk of barriers being thrown up to more freeform learning — if companies start pushing harder to hold onto kids' attention in a more and more competitive market.
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In assessing start-ups like DriveU, Unitus Seed first asks if the management team has "what it takes to persevere in the world's most competitive market," Mr. Poole said.
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The ratings also consider the ongoing challenges to operating margins given the competitive market conditions and weak economic environment, including persistently low interest rates and somewhat weak employment conditions.
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Revlon, backed by billionaire Ron Perelman, has been struggling to grow sales in a competitive market that houses several upstarts and bigger companies such as L'Oreal and Estee Lauder.
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In Japan, a fiercely competitive market where Coca-Cola says it introduces 100 new products each year, the company plans to test a flavored, bubbly drink spiked with alcohol.
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"Either important video content will be available through a competitive market to all distributors, including up-and-coming innovators," the Justice Department said in pretrial filings with the court.
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Since the 21970s, courts have become increasingly hesitant to break up companies or block mergers unless consumers are paying inflated prices that would be lower in a competitive market.
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New York (CNN Business)Once written off as doomed just a few years ago, Snapchat is now consistently adding users and growing its business in a highly competitive market.
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"The boom is unreal; the price per square foot has tripled," said Mr. Harrison, who said he has lost over 20 real estate bids in this intensely competitive market.
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It was a pretty competitive market, good wealth at the time, and the changes cumulated over 225 years until today where many of these markets, the situation is reversed.
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"We operate in a highly competitive market so we need to create a simpler, more agile business that can respond swiftly to changing customer needs and requirements," Lloyds said.
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When the post office is involved in both a monopoly and competitive market, it's only fair that the competitive side cover a "reasonable share" of overhead costs, he said.
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"In a competitive market, such cost benefits get passed through to customers..." Companies such as Admiral, Direct Line and esure and Hastings provide motor insurance in a crowded sector.
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Apple has also been investing in markets like China — a competitive market for local brands — and India, which has yet to build a big market for high-end handsets.
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"So, we're sort of doing everything we can to be prepared to make a good offer in a competitive market without contingencies and that sort of thing," Daniels said.
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Meanwhile, Facebook gains increased usage and engagement for its popular Messenger app in a competitive market, where AR effects alone can be a key selling point for attracting users.
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With 319 million people in America and 1.39 billion people in China, creating a competitive market to sell our goods is vastly more appealing than arguing over currency manipulation.
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More importantly, retaining talent is crucial for Uber as it attempts the difficult task of being a leader in the ever-competitive market for on-demand, self-driving cars.
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"We definitely see a very competitive market ... driven by the fact that the market is transforming to market-based auctions and competitive tendering," Vestas Chief Executive Anders Runevad told Reuters.
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"If shoppers experience a problem with home delivery or in-store pickups, that is a lost sale – and customer – that retailers can't afford in a highly competitive market," he said.
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Companies say the big challenge is a general slowdown in the economy combined with a highly competitive market where firms are sustaining production and employment levels despite pressure on margins.
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But as renewable energy becomes more competitive, market forces will help move Asia away from coal, said Yongping Zhai, an energy expert at the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in Manila.
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To help attract talent in this competitive market, more companies are expanding beyond traditional benefit offerings of health insurance and retirement plans and focusing on improving employees' work-life balance.
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According to the Roosevelt Institute's report, overcharging—that is, revenue over and above what a provider would make in a competitive market—represents nearly 25 percent of household communications bills.
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Coloplast, which has invested heavily in China in the past three years, expects growth to ease as it struggles to retain staff in a highly competitive market for qualified workers.
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Recent new perps such as Parkway Pantai and Kyobo Life's debut perps were wrapped around par, as investors held onto those bonds in a competitive market for high-yielding debt.
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The availability of a second drug in that class allowed pharmacy benefit managers to leverage competitive market forces and significantly reduce the final price paid by states, employers and insurers.
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It's a competitive market, and although the Pixel phones look great, it will be interesting to see if they can actually make some headway competing against Apple and Samsung phones.
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The move comes two months after LimeBike raised $50 million in funding on what we have heard was a $103 million valuation, and some decent growth in a competitive market.
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The increasingly competitive market for transcatheter valves is expected to expand from $4.433 billion currently to $24.43 billion in 24.63 as more types of patients get treated with the valves.
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The influx of capital and resulting competitive market conditions has allowed many US middle market companies to access similarly aggressive terms and conditions to larger borrowers with more liquid loans.
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Key rating triggers that could lead to an upgrade include: --Improvement in competitive market position while continuing to produce favorable operating results while not sustaining deterioration in other credit factors.
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Such progress in education not only provides our children with a vast variety of educational choices, but also creates a competitive market and pushes public schools to consistently get better.
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The big picture: Some conservatives want to tackle the underlying price of drugs, but they want to do it by fostering a more competitive market, rather than through price controls.
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The report cited a competitive market where rivals' drugs work better, on average, based on clinical data, and those rivals have the capacity to release their treatments sooner than Alder.
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Internet companies commonly use stock awards as a way to lure developers in a highly competitive market, where cash-rich companies like Google and Facebook can pay much higher salaries.
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There's still a lingering concern that Xiaomi, which makes around 70 percent of its revenues from smartphones, might be relying too much on hardware, particularly in an increasingly competitive market.
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Online radio service Pandora Media said it would reduce its U.S.-based workforce by about 7 percent as it seeks to become profitable in the fiercely competitive market for music streaming.
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" In its latest results the bank reported lower-than-expected profit for the third quarter of this year, on the back of a "highly competitive market and an uncertain economic outlook.
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The HRA rule may increase the size of the individual market by upwards of 50%, and should spur a more competitive market that drives insurers to deliver better options to consumers.
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Vishnu Varathan, head of economics and strategy at Mizuho Bank, said Chinese advancements in technology is creating a more competitive market at home, which may push local companies to innovate further.
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In areas with lots of internet infrastructure and a competitive market, that's not a big issue, but for many communities in Colorado, high-speed internet is limited, expensive, or non existent.
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Founded in 250 and backed by Intel Corp and Japanese trading house Itochu Corp, Singulato is one of at least 50 Chinese EV startups seeking to survive in a competitive market.
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Founded in 2014 and backed by Intel Corp and Japanese trading house Itochu Corp , Singulato is one of at least 50 Chinese EV startups seeking to survive in a competitive market.
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AmazonFresh's expansion to support Business customers could boost adoption for Amazon's grocery delivery subscription offering — a service that operates in an increasingly competitive market, among others like Instacart, Shipt and more.
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As it stood, sales margins were frequently in the 20 percent range, a byproduct of a fiercely competitive market where furniture manufacturers like PHDesign underbid their prices to garner market share.
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So I think economists might not agree that desktop search is a discrete market…"Cicilline: "I actually don't know any economist that doesn't agree that that is not a competitive market.
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China Unicom group, formally known as China United Network Communications Group Co Ltd, is one of the world's largest mobile carriers by user numbers but has faced a fiercely competitive market.
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"In a duopoly (or, for power users seeking speeds faster than DSL, perhaps a cable monopoly), there is little to no competitive market pressure that would curtail these practices," Jasper said.
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Michael Harris, adjunct professor at Syracuse University, described the region as a less competitive market than the EU. "If Turkish companies can get engaged, they should," he told CNBC via telephone.
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BANGKOK, Oct 18 (Reuters) - Thai telecoms operator Total Access Communication (DTAC) on Wednesday reported a 9 percent drop in third-quarter earnings, citing rising network costs and a highly competitive market.
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Even though the reforms will not be fully implemented until 2018, the government said in September it expected $20 billion in investments over four years due to a more competitive market.
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Interestingly, the FDA currently is preventing thousands of generic drugs from entering the market, even though generics would lower prices and add all of the other benefits of a competitive market.
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I didn't know the first thing about selling a car in a competitive market, though the process turned out to be a breeze — and I got $2200,29 right on the spot.
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"Clearly in a competitive market those with funding for their creative ideas will have an edge with young people," Shakuntala Banaji, associate professor at the LSE, told CNBC in an email.
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Prior to the latest round, Flipkart had raised more than $3 billion in funding via 10 rounds, mostly from international investors but it has burnt through cash in a competitive market.
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"The strong second quarter showing by Sunrise in a maturing and competitive market is evidence that its investments in network, distribution and customer service are paying off," analysts at Berenberg said.
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The country's biggest mutually-owned business also reported a 6% drop in revenue from its funeral business as it conducted fewer funerals and did not raise prices in a competitive market.
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Ms. Ross is aware that she was stepping into a competitive market, but views her entry more as contributing to a community she has been a part of for so long.
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At the same time that its supply units were processing opiates, Johnson & Johnson's pharmaceutical subsidiary was promoting its own products in what was becoming a hotly competitive market for narcotic painkillers.
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Comcast and Charter Communications amplified that trend on Monday, announcing that they would team up to offer cellular telephone and data services in the United States, entering a ferociously competitive market.
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AMS, known for supplying Apple with sensors for iPhones, wants to build a leader in integrated sensors and lights with a focus on the highly competitive market for self-driving cars.
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At the same time that its supply units were processing opiates, Johnson & Johnson's pharmaceutical subsidiary was promoting its own products in what was becoming a hotly competitive market for narcotic painkillers.
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"In a highly competitive market it is easy to become obsessed with growth, instead of taking the time to ensure you're on the right path," Camp wrote in a Medium post.
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The German carrier has been investing billions in renewing its fleet and improving its cabins as it seeks to win customers in a fiercely competitive market and achieve the highest Skytrax rating.
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"I'll oppose anything that makes it harder for smaller, younger companies to take the risk of bringing their product to a vibrantly competitive market," Trump said after meeting with pharmaceutical executives Tuesday.
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" The chamber of commerce said in the survey that "Beijing's failure so far to deliver on promises that foreign-invested enterprises will enjoy a more open, competitive market has fostered mounting pessimism.
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But the company said it would continue to exercise caution due to competitive market conditions in Saudi Arabia, where a slump in oil prices has put pressure on government and consumer spending.
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" There was Representative Marsha Blackburn, invoking the loaves-and-fishes mythology that a free, competitive market, unfettered by government regulation, can drip down prosperity on everyone as "the magic of this country.
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There are many reasons that program was popular – and one is surely that, in today's fast-paced, competitive market, people like the idea of learning on the job from an experienced master.
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Itineraries Seeking to appeal to guests' desire for new experiences and stand out in a competitive market, hotel brand managers are mining their local art communities for everything from inspiration to installations.
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We all have our suspicions for how this market may play out, but we now have a legitimately competitive market with lots of options for consumers at many price points and features.
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KEY RATING DRIVERS Switzerland, Low-Growth, Competitive Market: Switzerland is the portfolio's single largest market, accounting for around 47% of 9M17 revenue and is therefore an important driver of the overall business.
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"Given the competitive market and need to invest in both capex and operating expenses, profitability along AWS's level may prove elusive for Azure for several years, if not forever," Jefferies analysts said.
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The company said it was seeing good demand for Greece, Cyprus and Bulgaria for the summer, although growth in bookings to the Spanish islands had levelled off in a highly competitive market.
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At the same time, Volksbank's earnings rely on interest income from a single product, and its pricing power is more limited given that it operates in a concentrated and highly competitive market.
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Every day, consumers reap the benefits of an intensely competitive market for new cars, and it appears that the current auto dealer franchise system has a significant part in making this so.
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The results could put the first-in-class injection in a strong position in a competitive market as it heads into final-stage Phase III tests later this year or early next.
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British American Tobacco said it would test launch its Eclipse tobacco heating product in the United States within the next 12 months, giving it a head start in a highly competitive market.
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" As the report itself says, insurers do consider mileage driven as a factor, the association said, but "as one would expect in a competitive market, it is done so differently among insurers.
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Some app buyers allege that the App Store is an illegal monopoly and that Apple forces them to pay higher prices for apps than they would have paid in a competitive market.
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Shiok Meats takes the cultured meat revolution to the seafood aisle with plans for cultured shrimp For Tyson, the investment is the latest foray into the increasingly competitive market for alternative meats.
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Blue Apron – The meal kit maker was upgraded at Goldman, RBC, and Stifel Nicolaus, based on expectations that it will maintain its lead in this category as a hyper-competitive market normalizes.
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Convoy, the digital freight network that connects truckers with shippers, has raised $400 million in a Series D funding round as it aims to scale its business amid an increasingly competitive market.
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In tandem with such repeal, Congress should also repeal the McCarran-Ferguson Act of 1945 that has been used in many states to limit access to a competitive market in health insurance.
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The agreement brings to a close a two-year investigation into the association's code of ethics by the Justice Department's antitrust division, which enforces laws governing fair consumer and competitive market practices.
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The discount carrier said that while its preparations for the UK-EU divorce were on track, economic uncertainty and confusion over Brexit were reducing demand for flights in the ultra-competitive market.
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In India particularly, Uber Eats has struggled to sign up restaurants, diners and delivery agents in a brutally competitive market where Zomato and other delivery start-ups like Swiggy are well established.
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"Mounting cost pressures and increasingly competitive market conditions in the European short-haul market have contributed to the Monarch Group experiencing a sustained period of trading losses," KPMG partner Blair Nimmo said.
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There's deadweight loss, yes, but the power sector is not exactly a perfect competitive market at the moment, so there's no reason to believe the current balance of investments is economically optimal.
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The other side: China sees pursuing these state-driven strategies as essential to its national interests, believing that the U.S. will prevent it from acquiring such capabilities in an open and competitive market.
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It must gain the approval of both the Federal Communications Commission, which will examine whether it benefits consumers and preserves a competitive market, and the Justice Department, which will analyze potential antitrust implications.
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The increase in sales, which Sonae said reinforced its market share, came at the cost of profitability due to discounts it has to offer in a highly competitive market affected by food deflation.
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The U.K. government has abandoned plans to create a secondary annuities market after deciding it would be unable to balance the functioning of a competitive market with the provision of sufficient consumer protections.
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He says his properties, including the Bowery Hotel on the Lower East Side, face a more competitive market now that the power and prestige of the White House lie behind Mr Trump's businesses.
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Foreign businesses like Apple need to contend with challenges even before, and while, dealing with some of the more commercial issues of price sensitivity, a crowded and competitive market and raw material sourcing.
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"We don't have anything close to what most people would see as a functioning, competitive market in hospital care," says Alan Sager, a health policy professor at Boston University who reviewed the analysis.
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But we can't just stop at preventing mergers; we should apply this lesson more broadly and reform our healthcare system to better foster a more robust, competitive market with consumers at the center.
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As one of the nation's most highly regulated industries, broadcasters note that historically restrictive government policies have put them at a disadvantage in the fast-moving, hyper competitive market for viewers and advertisers.
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"It's been a highly competitive market for buyers due to a sheer lack of supply," said Deborah Lebow, a Glen Ridge resident who is an agent for Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage in Montclair.
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In a competitive market, companies will vie with their rivals to hire the best workers, lifting wages up to workers' "marginal product," the last cent where their employers could still turn a profit.
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Leverage aside, Fitch views the cable business model to be most resilient to the pressures described above, while BT's domestic business has also adapted well to the commercial challenges of a competitive market.
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The incident is an embarrassing setback for Google as it seeks to establish itself as a leader in the emerging and competitive market for smart-speakers, in competition with Amazon, Apple and Facebook.
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In June 2018, IBM pitted a robot against humans in two debates on telemedicine and space exploration — a publicity stunt meant to showcase the tech giant's AI prowess in an increasingly competitive market.
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The move comes as the retailer struggles to grow sales in a competitive market, forcing it to close stores and sell units to focus on Saks Fifth Avenue and Hudson's Bay in Canada.
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One is that it's simply a way to be judicious with capital when there's lots of your product in a competitive market when prices are low and you think they'll stay that way.
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Founder Ricky Knox, 41, told Reuters the novel approach was designed to help build Tandem's customer base in a competitive market where clients are seen more likely to get divorced than switch lenders.
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"These policy changes advance US national security and foreign policy because they make FMS more attractive in a very competitive market," DSCA Director LTG Charles W. Hooper said in a statement on Wednesday.
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In today's competitive market, automakers have been trying to absorb costs, where possible, but the higher the price of an eventual settlement, the more likely it will be felt in rising sticker prices.
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The launch of DoorDash Kitchens comes as restaurants are experimenting with ways to cut costs on labor and rent while adapting to fast-changing consumer tastes and demands in a highly competitive market.
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"Thirty days is not enough time to separate real sales trends from short-term fluctuations in a very dynamic, highly competitive market," Kurt McNeil, U.S. vice president for sales operations said in a statement.
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China Unicom, formally known as China United Network Communications Group Co Ltd, is one of the world's largest mobile carriers by user numbers, but its recent earnings have struggled in a fiercely competitive market.
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In the hugely competitive market for small cars, a higher price can steer consumers towards petrol cars, which are less efficient than diesel engines and hence produce more carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas.
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ANZ's action comes as many of Australia's big lenders are cutting back their exposure to financial planning - part of a sectorwide push to simplify business structure and reduce exposure to a highly competitive market.
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The accusations being flung by Faraday Future speak to a larger truth when it comes to acquiring talent in the EV industry: while it's still young, it's a hyper-competitive market for qualified employees.
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However, in a competitive market where everyone seems to be releasing a fitness app or trying to re-invent the wheel, it was exciting to see a tech company with a genuine gym innovation.
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Our thought bubble: Not only is this a strategic move for Amazon, it's a good time for Eero to give up trying to go it alone in the increasingly competitive market for networking hardware.
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In particular, he's proud that they've "been able to grow in the most competitive market in the world, which is the U.S." Schromgens says about a quarter of their business is now in America.
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LONDON, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Sainsbury's, Britain's second biggest supermarket, on Wednesday reported another drop in quarterly underlying sales and cautioned that it did not expect a change to competitive market conditions any time soon.
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"With an increasingly competitive market, a number of internal changes, and now pressure from Jana, we see increased risk on the execution front, as the management team could become more distracted," said Oppenheimer's Parikh.
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Iliad's impending introduction has raised concerns over the impact its offers could have on an already competitive market and on the margins of operators such as Telecom Italia, which is Italy's biggest phone group.
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The measures will slash banks' revenue from such transactions by around 40 percent while keeping regulations flexible in the competitive market for payment processors, central bank director Reinaldo Le Grazie told a news conference.
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So has the Veterans Affairs medical system, which already has about 216,2000 medical vacancies that it has been struggling to fill amid a competitive market — a problem that can usually be solved by immigration.
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" The executives, who span a range of industries, said a federal law is necessary to ensure "strong, consistent protections for American consumers" and allow "American companies to continue to lead a globally competitive market.
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The gaming defections also highlight the growing challenge that Twitch, which Amazon bought for nearly $231 billion more than five years ago, faces in an increasingly competitive market filled with other tech-backed rivals.
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Sainsbury fell more than 2 percent after Britain's second biggest supermarket reported another drop in quarterly underlying sales and cautioned that it did not expect a change to competitive market conditions any time soon.
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"We see the new plan as a blueprint for success, but now the company must execute in a highly competitive market for viewing and advertising dollars," said Benjamin Swinburne, an analyst with Morgan Stanley.
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Getsafe, the German insurtech that offers home contents insurance via an app, has launched in the U.K., despite an increasingly competitive market for insurance in the country, and the thorny regulatory issue of Brexit.
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And while there's suddenly a highly competitive market for sophisticated smart trainers — some of which cost over a grand — the simple magnetic-resistance trainer still serves cyclists well and is a lot more affordable.
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RAT-RACE Hard-liners including Germany's Enercon are cagey about their technology and production techniques, hoping that controlling all steps of the process will give them the upper hand in the highly competitive market.
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Effectively, what that means is that a lot of private healthcare in the U.S. operates without one of the supposed main benefits of capitalism, the pressure to keep prices low in a competitive market.
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WhatsApp's popularity in India is likely to pose a threat to established players, but it is entering a competitive market after Alphabet Inc's Google launched a payments app last year to compete with local players.
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The company, which depends largely on income from the oil and gas industry, said it expected to see slightly lower revenue and margins in 2020 compared to this year due to a very competitive market.
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The companies, which the lawsuit refers to as a "cartel," frequently shared data on pay with each other to keep compensation lower than it would have been in a competitive market, according to the lawsuit.
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In the company's S-22018, it said it increased driver incentives and promotions in the first quarter to maintain its competitive market position, and it noted that it expects its driver relations to get worse.
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Grupo Carrefour Brasil will start an online grocery shopping and rewards platform in Sao Paulo this week, executives said on Monday, deploying fresh capital to boost its e-commerce presence in a fiercely competitive market.
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And also we saw enormous benefit, because it made certain markets — like the U.K., for example, where there was only one pay operator — suddenly we had a competitive market for our television and movie product.
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My thought bubble ... You may be sick of hearing me say this by now, but it's true: Health care is not a competitive market, and the more you need it, the less competitive it is.
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The finance ministry agreed on Tuesday that making a secondary market for annuities would pose risks to pensioners, and added that it was clear there would not be enough purchasers to create a competitive market.
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"Cards without foreign transaction fees are widely available in a highly competitive market as banks fight to attract and keep customers," Nessa Feddis, vice president and senior counsel for the American Bankers Association told CreditCards.com.
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Rostelecom said it had no current plans to raise tariffs in response to the new law, Megafon said the competitive market made raising charges unlikely, and Tele2 said the market set the level of charges.
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It's the sign of a competitive market that so many companies are taking on the challenge, and we're getting some damn fine engineering out of it, but let's not forget where the iPhone's strengths lie.
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But the cost of a comprehensive motor insurance policy rose for the first time in 12 months for the third quarter in Britain, a survey showed last week, bringing respite to the highly competitive market.
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Zingales, the author of "A Capitalism for the People: Recapturing the Lost Genius of American Prosperity," is also the director of the Stiegler Center, which studies how vested interests are subverting the competitive market economy.
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Zuckerberg would be entering a more competitive market than Yahoo did back in the day, and politicians on both sides might take issue at the idea of Facebook extending its reach into the People's Republic.
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On Friday, Reuters also reported that Spanish bank Santander has entered exclusive talks to buy the bulk of Deutsche Bank's business in Poland in a bid to strengthen its position in the highly competitive market.
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Though Forever 21 did not — and still does not — publicly disclose its finances, store closures in major global markets suggest that the teen retailer has struggled to find its footing in an increasingly competitive market.
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Sainsbury's, Britain's second biggest supermarket group which agreed a 7.3 billion pound ($9.7 billion) takeover of rival Asda in April, saw sales growth slow in its latest quarter, reflecting price cuts in a competitive market.
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"Our core MS business demonstrated resilience in an increasingly competitive market, and Spinraza has had one of the most successful rare disease launches of all time," Biogen CEO Michel Vounatsos said in an earnings release.
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LONDON — The large Chinese online retailer JD.com announced on Thursday that it would spin off its finance business for $2.1 billion, setting the stage for the group's expansion in the fast-growing and competitive market.
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Pai and his supporters have said net neutrality will be upheld through a competitive market and the watchful eye of the FTC, which will be tasked with regulating ISPs if the FCC ditches its current rules.
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The incredibly competitive market for engineering talent is partly to blame for small start-ups' desire to attain lofty paper valuations and offer potential employees highly-valued equity, said Sam Angus, corporate partner at Fenwick & West.
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Apple has argued that it created a new competitive market, and it's said before that its phones' ecosystems are closed for security reasons since it can vet App Store apps for malicious code and other dangers.
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Screen had represented a major bet by Yahoo into the area of digital video, a brutally expensive and increasingly competitive market that is now widely seen as what will separate winners and losers in modern media.
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Brokerage Jefferies said in a note that it was "understandable that BMW needs a new partner to defend its market share in a more competitive market", and expected that the move would hit current partner Brilliance.
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This leaves Multichoice free to fend for itself in an increasingly competitive market where Netflix is already supplying thousands of viewers with original TV content and Hollywood hits such as "Stranger Things" and "House of Cards".
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Thomas Cook said its summer season was 91 percent sold, which is 2 percent more than the same time last year, and that sales to Spain remained level with last year despite a highly competitive market.
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It saved us billions of dollars, and if we can save the telco industry billions of dollars, then in a competitive market that will be passed along to consumers in the form of lower data prices.
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BERLIN, June 20 (Reuters) - Online takeaway food delivery group Delivery Hero will use the proceeds from a stock market listing to help keep it ahead in a highly competitive market, its chief executive said on Tuesday.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's second and third-largest mobile telecoms operators Megafon and Vimpelcom will end their Euroset retail joint venture to focus on their own distribution channels in an increasingly competitive market, they said on Wednesday.
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The advantage was that instead of being stuck with the computer makers' proprietary software and processors, shoppers got a more competitive market and access to the best chips and software the market could offer, Garg said.
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"We believe an open, competitive market for digital advertising increases effectiveness for advertisers, improves revenue for publishers, and funds a broad scope of premium content for all consumers," The Trade Desk wrote in an emailed statement.
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He said the bank is focused on internal transformation and upgrading its IT systems to be better prepared to win clients in a very competitive market, where only 5-6 of the biggest banks will survive.
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Ron DeSantis's Higher Education Reform and Opportunity (HERO) Act that would allow individuals to use federal grant money on vastly more forms of higher education thereby creating a free and competitive market empowering families and students.
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"We operate on a highly competitive market, and for competitive reasons we don't hand out a list of our suppliers in Bangladesh or any other country," IKEA told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in an emailed statement.
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"We begin a new cycle of growth while reducing our operating cost, necessary in a globalised and competitive market," said Dimitris Gerogiannis, Aegean's CEO, adding the order was for up to 123 planes, including 10 A321s.
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"It's getting to be a very competitive market out there, and people will pick a job, and maybe not the highest paid offer, if they feel like they're part of something bigger than themselves," he said.
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"Obviously, this has made an already competitive market even more so, and our response to the unlimited data plans was probably a little slow," Chief Executive Randall Stephenson said on the company's post-earnings conference call.
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" And yet, in another of Watson's blustering sermons, we hear, over a montage of mainstream-media logos, the following endorsement of capitalism: "A competitive market creates quality, because businesses fail if they don't please the consumer.
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But by moving into more general-purpose machines, MSI now has to contend with laptop giants like Apple, Dell, and others as the company looks to carve out a new niche in a very competitive market.
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The sources said that while IBM's technology allowed for the creation of a harmonized IT platform, it was also available to all retailers and therefore hardly a differentiating factor in what has become a highly competitive market.
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Volvo, owned by China's Geely, is launching EV models under Volvo and its sub-brand Polestar as it takes on global peers including Volkswagen, Tesla and General Motors in the increasingly competitive market for electric vehicles (EVs).
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Our ability to grow this segment of the business in a crowded and highly competitive market speaks to the breadth of our lithotripter and urinary stone laser product portfolio as well as the quality of our technology.
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She expects to put half a million dollars into the renovation, adding both square footage and high-end finishings; she is confident that in this competitive market she will see an 18-25 percent return on investment.
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LONDON, Sept 20.7506 (Reuters) - British online grocer Ocado reported a 13.6 percent rise in quarterly retail sales but said the intensely competitive market was causing margin pressure and cautioned it would not go away any time soon.
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Switzerland, a Competitive Market UPC benefits from broadband speed advantage given speeds deliverable via DOCSIS technologies in Switzerland, where Fitch estimates the company's national broadband subscriber market share stood at around 21% at 3Q16 (37% in- footprint).
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On top of that, it has to offer steep incentives to both drivers and customers to get them to use their service in a competitive market, something Uber even listed as a risk factor for its business.
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BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Even though new rules have not yet been implemented, telecom companies in Argentina are preparing for a more competitive market as the government expects reforms to attract $20 billion in investments over four years.
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If a new drug results, the price of that treatment reflects the value of the innovation as compared to other treatment options when they exist, and price is negotiated in a highly competitive market with health plans.
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Lufthansa is looking to merge the European operations of its catering unit LSG with a peer as it struggles with low margins in a competitive market on the continent, people close to the matter said.
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PARIS, March 8 (Reuters) - Altice, the owner of France's second-biggest telecoms operator SFR Group, expects its revenues in the country to remain flattish in 2017, underscoring the challenges it still faces in the fiercely competitive market.
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ZURICH, Aug 30 (Reuters) - Novartis on Friday announced positive study results for its prospective multiple sclerosis drug ofatumumab that the Swiss drugmaker hopes will pose a stiff challenge to Roche's medicine Ocrevus in a highly competitive market.
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In a competitive market economy, the only way for a businessman to get rich is to oversee an enterprise providing goods and services that thousands of us want to buy, at prices customers are willing to pay.
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It's entering a competitive market: Disney is also preparing a streaming service launch on November 12, NBC plans a service next year and AT&T's WarnerMedia will also launch a competing product under the HBO brand name.
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"In order to be fair to the people that are competing in the competitive market, Congress said the PRC has to assign a reasonable proportion of the costs to the competitive products as a whole," Campbell said.
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U.S. streaming service Netflix has struck a deal with Italy's top commercial broadcaster Mediaset to produce films in the country, the two companies said on Tuesday, as they try to grab new viewers in a competitive market.
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The Pharmaceutical Care Management Association, the trade group representing benefit managers, contends that they make prescriptions more affordable, and pushes back against the notion that P.B.M.s are responsible for pressures on pharmacies, instead of a competitive market.
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Dropbox is in a brutally competitive market, going up against Apple and Google for consumer file storage (photos and videos), and taking on a host of companies from Microsoft and Amazon to Box on the enterprise side.
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We know it might feel like a lot, but it's a competitive market, and the more of these qualities you're able to show off, the more likely it is that you'll be able to land your dream job.
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"At the moment given the complicated political, economic and competitive market environment, Beijing Hyundai faces what we can describe as severe market challenges," said Xu, adding the firm would not slow its pace of innovation in the market.
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Alternative power suppliers have argued that the available ARENH volume has been limited by the demand of EDF's unit Sowee, which like other alternative suppliers offers competitive market rates rather than the regulated power tariffs offered by EDF.
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The two banking industry sources had told Reuters the French bank was considering selling its Polish unit because it is too small to compete with larger players in a competitive market where low interest rates squeezed banks' margins.
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"Although the platforms often provide user services for free, a more competitive market might result in consumers being paid for their data, or provide consumers with greater control over how their data is used," the CMA's statement said.
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But to describe Amazon as a retailer is to misunderstand what the company actually is, and to miss the depth of the threat that it poses to our liberty and the very idea of an open, competitive market.
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"To hear that it's actually buying an existing retailer confirms its intentions in the area and that obviously leads to further competition in what is already a fiercely competitive market," said Laith Khalaf, an analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown.
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The court ignored the freedom that consumers should have to choose their energy sources in a competitive market now that technology can break up utility monopolies, and they ignored the right that all Americans have to clean air.
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India has transitioned in a few short decades from a moribund economy languishing under a sclerotic and byzantine bureaucratic model (sometimes referred to as the "license raj") into an increasingly open and competitive market for goods and services.
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Hulu's live TV service is just around the corner, and will enter a competitive market where rivals like AT&T's DirecTV NOW, Dish's Sling TV, Sony's PlayStation Vue, and YouTube TV are now battling for cord cutters' dollars.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese households, traditional savers with an aversion to debt, are rapidly warming to the idea of borrowing to buy a car, as automakers push financing deals to boost sales and margins in an increasingly competitive market.
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Playing in such a competitive market tends to be a losing proposition for start-ups, but Tophatter continues to draw investors, in part because of a leadership team with experience in the auction and e-commerce battle zones.
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Some of these newer policies are difficult to price and hard to model, but insurers are developing them to meet demand and maintain market share in a highly competitive market which has suffered several years of falling premiums.
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That more-competitive market led Mr. Birch to call Sotheby's this winter, and people there were happy to help Mr. Birch divest of what they viewed to be one of the best modern design collections in the world.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Private equity funds are increasingly selling minority stakes in investments to pension and sovereign wealth funds as they strive to deliver returns for investors while holding onto prized assets in a hotly competitive market for deals.
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Seoul will implement a competitive market auction system for power producers as early as the first quarter of 21, shifting away from the current feed-in-tariff system, the country's energy ministry said in a statement on Wednesday.
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Yesterday's announcement may not pay immediate dividends, but building a competitive market now could definitely yield noticeable savings in the future — even though these products likely won't offer the same steep discounts we're used to with traditional generics.
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As indicated in a May 2900 AHPI paper that looked at employer concerns, 220006 percent of large employers say that policymakers should encourage and facilitate the development of a robust and competitive market for individual health-care coverage.
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The growing list of fee discounts threaten to reduce banks' profits on underwriting loans backing private equity buyouts, which at around 1.75% of the financing is a key source of income for banks in an increasingly competitive market.
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For Lundbeck, the approval opens doors to a lucrative but competitive market dominated by already approved rivals from Amgen Inc, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd and Eli Lilly and Co. Reporting by Manas Mishra and Mrinalika Roy in Bengaluru;
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The retreat of homebuyers in early 2019 left a surplus of houses on the market — but the rising desire to buy again is creating a competitive market that's decreasing the housing supply and thus raising prices, Tucker said.
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If the tariffs materialize, consumers could feel them almost immediately, most likely starting with the price of fresh fruits and vegetables — a competitive market with slim margins where distributors would have little choice but to pass on costs.
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Here's what they found: "Unusual job-hunting tactics can sometimes help job seekers get a foot in the door, particularly in a competitive market, but they do carry risk," said Diane Domeyer, executive director of The Creative Group.
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LONDON, Sept 3 (Reuters) - Lloyds Banking Group has agreed to buy Tesco Bank's 3.7 billion pounds ($4.54 billion) UK residential mortgage portfolio, in a move likely to consolidate its dominance of Britain's ultra-competitive market for home loans.
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At a ceremony on the tarmac at Ben Gurion International Airport following the airplane's flight from Seattle, CEO David Maimon said the fleet renewal was new era for El Al, helping it better compete in a fiercely competitive market.
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The Justice Department letter said the investigation focuses on "a potential agreement between colleges relating to their early decision practices," and will be investigated by the agency's Antitrust Division, which enforces laws governing fair consumer and competitive market practices.
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Under the terms of the agreement, neither Comcast nor Charter could try to acquire a carrier without the other's consent, but both firms could work together to make their way into what is already a crowded and competitive market.
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I felt like I didn't have the specialization that would equip me to compete in what is already a very competitive market — and I'm sure in 2008 it was even harder to get a job in the music industry.
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Just Eat said in March it would spend an extra 50 million pounds ($67 million) this year to battle competition from rivals such as Uber Eats and Deliveroo, in a fiercely competitive market which has burgeoned in recent years.
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But so far there have been few other signs that the authorities are ready to brave the wrath of the incumbents and take the sort of vigorous action that is needed to make American air travel a competitive market.
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"These new methods, reflecting an 'Uberisation' of the cocaine trade, are clear signs of a competitive market in which sellers have to promote additional services beyond the product itself, such as fast delivery anywhere at any time," it said.
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With the acquisition of cloud-based business performance management software maker Adaptive Insights in August, Workday attempts to become a one-step solution for all back-office services for small and medium sized businesses in this fiercely competitive market.
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In Tel Aviv, Waiser will share his thoughts with us on the future of mobility, the peaks and valleys of the entrepreneur's journey and what's next for Gett as it continues to drive forward in a highly competitive market.
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President Obama's last chairman at the Federal Communications Commission, Tom Wheeler, believed he could accurately predict future developments in the wireless marketplace and, based on those predictions, adopt interventionist policies that could produce better results than competitive market forces.
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Tech companies like Netflix, Facebook and Spotify have helped pave the way for that by introducing expanded perks and accommodations for new parents as part of a benefits arms race to vie for talent in a hyper-competitive market.
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Horizons Ventures' Bart Swanson said his firm re-upped their investment in Modern Meadow, in part, because the company had managed to attract tech talent in a competitive market, and advanced their technology enough to yield promising leather samples.
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"Without Huawei equipment and services, consumers in the United States — particularly in rural and poor areas — will be deprived of access to the most advanced technologies, and will face higher prices and a significantly less competitive market," Huawei says.
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PARIS (Reuters) - French startup firm Devialet, whose high-end speakers have won admirers from rapper Jay-Z to President Macron, unveiled a miniaturized version of its flagship product which it hopes will broaden its clientele in a competitive market.
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BERLIN, Oct 29 (Reuters) - German consumer goods firm Beiersdorf reported a slight slowdown in sales growth in the third quarter on Tuesday, citing a "challenging and very competitive market environment", but the Nivea-maker confirmed its outlook for 2019.
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"Our operations in Spain have allowed us to establish a significant presence in this important and competitive market, where we will continue to deploy our sustainable leadership," Antonio Cammisecra, the CEO of Enel Green Power, said in a statement.
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Like some of its peers, Under Armour has struggled to keep momentum going in the U.S. — a very competitive market as athletic apparel and shoe retailers try to reach shoppers following a number of bankruptcies by sporting-goods businesses.
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"Despite a fiercely competitive market, our strategy is proving successful in global advisory where we have grown our market share contributing to a sharp increase in revenues for the first half," said Nigel Higgins and Olivier Pecoux, co-CEOs of Rothschild.
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"If we do something it will be very small," Stefan Bollinger said, noting any move had to fit Goldman Sachs's pan-European strategy and pointing out that Switzerland was a competitive market whose business cycle was at an advanced stage.
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The increasingly crowded, and competitive, market has been dominated by Amazon, Google, and, more recently, Sonos, each of which has vied to control the sound waves (and choice of virtual assistant) in your apartment for months and, in some cases, years.
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"Several factors have driven a shift in our view, including a lower absolute rate outlook, a flatter curve, tightening loan spreads resulting from a competitive market with ample liquidity, and continued upward pressure on deposit pricing," he said in the call.
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In the Shopping instance, Walker argued the online shopping ecosystem has evolved beyond price comparison sites — making them irrelevant in what he described as a vibrantly competitive market, focused on other channels for reaching consumers such as retailers' own mobile apps.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Panasonic Corp's autonomous driving system is expected to be launched in commercial vehicles as early as in 2022, in a move that will likely help the Japanese company narrow its gap with rival suppliers in a highly competitive market.
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"Given the very competitive market conditions driven by the economic slowdown going forward, the company will continue to exercise caution on its cash-flow generation while focusing on its strategic targets and enhance overall efficiency," it said in a statement.
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According to the government, the plan was shelved as it believed a lack of interest from customers would have forced it to undertake steps to stimulate a competitive market in such a way that consumer protections would have been undermined.
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Last December, the German media reported that Volkswagen was preparing to write down $300 million of its Gett investment in an increasingly competitive market in Gett's wheelhouse, where it is not the only one targeting corporates and other business users.
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The council, the main body representing Australian miners, predicted the proposal was unlikely to proceed to an actual complaint despite China being awash with imported iron ore, since it was being traded "in the open" and in a fiercely competitive market.
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Chinese service providers also registered a solid rise in cost burdens last month, due to higher prices for materials, staff and fuel, outpacing the prices charged, as a number of firms indicated competitive market conditions had dampened overall pricing power.
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"At the moment given the complicated political, economic and competitive market environment, Beijing Hyundai faces what we can describe as severe market challenges," Xu Heyi, chairman of Beijing Hyundai Motor Co, said at an event at the Shanghai auto show.
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WATERLOO, Ontario (Reuters) - BlackBerry Ltd's decision to outsource the development of its smartphones helps it avoid the risks of a competitive market and focus on its more lucrative businesses of software and managing rival devices, its chief executive said on Wednesday.
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The irony of the Republican opposition to the use of a competitive market with subsidies to make health insurance "affordable"— essentially their long time alternative—might become apparent, allowing them to engage in fixing the ACA if Congress goes blue.
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The drugmaker on Thursday said it plans to cut 1300 jobs by the end of the year in what it described as a "restructuring initiative", but what many saw as a means to cut costs amid an increasingly competitive market.
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NEW YORK/TOKYO (Reuters) - Walmart has struck a partnership with e-commerce firm Rakuten Inc to launch an online grocery delivery service in Japan, its latest effort to forge an alliance with a popular homegrown chain to crack a competitive market.
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WARSAW/FRANKFURT, Nov 17 (Reuters) - Spanish bank Santander has entered exclusive talks to buy the bulk of Deutsche Bank's business in Poland in a bid to strengthen its position in the highly competitive market, two sources familiar with the matter said.
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The company now operates in 27 countries with approximately 17 million monthly users yet Östberg underlined that the food delivery space continued to be a highly competitive market and therefore the online food delivery company must continue to prioritize growth.
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Anheuser-Busch officials know they are entering a crowded and competitive market place, and Estrella Jalisco will not be the first time the company has tried to appeal to first- and second-generation Mexican-Americans by importing an established Mexican brand.
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Elior, Europe's third-largest catering group, said it was considering a separation of some of concessions businesses, as part of a broader strategy to boost growth in a competitive market which saw the company issue a profit warning in May.
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Yet double-digit inflation in Brazil has driven up labor costs and the fourth-quarter earnings showed Embraer has been forced to offer bigger discounts on executive jets as it tries to grow in a sluggish and highly competitive market.
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This is a sensible way to allow consumers to benefit from the choice, cost-savings, and innovation that a competitive market can provide, while making sure that some things, like the sale of viewing data, are prohibited no matter what.
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A number of states are starting down the road to examining alternatives to a model based on utility monopoly hegemony, and the benefits of creating competitive market environments in which smart, efficient and clean energy technologies and services can thrive.
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The liberalization of Mexico's energy sector is still in its early stages and more time is needed to see the results of a more competitive market, and if AMLO is serious about improving Mexico's economy, he'll let the reforms move forward.
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The increasingly competitive market for transcatherter valves, used to replace diseased aortic valves without open-heart surgery, is expected to expand from $3 billion currently to $5 billion in 2021 as more types of patients get treated with the valves.
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Before the changes, JEPX trading typically accounted for around 1-2 percent of overall electricity supplies in Japan, but the increase in volume will be seen as encouraging to those who argue building liquidity is crucial to ensure a competitive market.
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Running online services isn't a core competency for many of these companies, and even if they are experienced at running their own data centers by now, this isn't what allows them to differentiate their cars in a highly competitive market.
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But finding that talent in a competitive market for tech workers is a major challenge — particularly as degrees in advanced physics, a background necessary to create the computers, fell by about 12% in 2018, according to the American Physical Society.
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Sales at J&J's diabetes device business, which also includes Animas Corp and Calibra Medical Inc, have been falling since 563 in a highly competitive market and the company said last January that it was evaluating options for the units.
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"At this point, the marketplaces are really functioning more broadly in their role as an extension of the public safety net than in their role as a competitive market," John Graves, a health policy professor at Vanderbilt University, told me.
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While four of the five members of the commission were nominated by Mr. Trump, the agency has historically operated independently of the executive branch and tends to be protective of the competitive market structure built up over the past three decades.
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Microsoft's focus on its enterprise sales force is a "real advantage" in the cloud-computing business, which is "an incredibly competitive market with very large well-funded competitors," Hood said on Monday at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom conference.
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David Snyder, vice president for policy development and research with the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America, said the federation's analysis showed that insurers use a "wide diversity" of practices when considering a driver's prior coverage, suggesting a competitive market.
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DETROIT, Oct 21 (Reuters) - Israel's Upstream Security has secured $30 million funding from a wide range of global automakers and venture capital firms as it looks to tap into the increasingly competitive market for software to protect vehicles from hackers.
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Hilton is now the world's second largest hotel chain, being knocked off the top spot when Marriott bought Starwood for $13 billion in September 2016, but in a fiercely competitive market Calpin said her focus is on her own company.
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Lufthansa had put the business up for sale as it struggles with low margins in a competitive market, people close to the matter had said, adding that Lufthansa's supervisory board was expected to sign off on the deal on Dec. 3.
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With the acquisition of cloud-based business performance management software maker Adaptive Insights last year, Workday has been trying to become a one-step solution for all back-office services for small and medium sized businesses in a fiercely competitive market.
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The company's relocation speaks to the changes that Seattle is experiencing in attracting companies, especially in the technology field, as well as the growing interest nationwide by companies in settling in urban environments to recruit talented employees in a competitive market.
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Andy Hargreaves of Keybanc Capital Markets warned would-be investors that Apple's pivot into services is a dicey move into a competitive market, where companies succeed or fail based on how much profit they can eke out of each user.
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The sale comes as private equity funds are increasingly taking advantage of pension and sovereign wealth funds to reduce their exposure to their prized assets as they strive to deliver returns for investors in a hotly competitive market for deals.
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"It is a very competitive market — you are competing with companies like Google, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook and many others — so our 100 percent focus is on being able to power how companies work and operate and secure their information," he said.
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The recent controversy over "Outrages" highlights the perils that publishers face in a competitive market where juicy nonfiction books that feature explosive claims can command the highest sales but are sometimes not vigorously fact-checked or vetted in advance of publication.
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The chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee, Representative Frank Pallone Jr., Democrat of New Jersey, told the witnesses that he believed in a competitive market built on private enterprise, but that many of his constituents were losing faith in it.
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Jonathan Owens, supply chain and logistics expert at the University of Salford Business School, said that British Steel had been struggling in a very competitive market and that a new government loan may only have delayed the inevitable failure of the company.
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We've just now started dabbling back in security, but we didn't see that exit environment for it, we did see differentiated products out there, we thought that it was a highly competitive market, and for a while we just stayed away from it.
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"We can confirm that Genpact did recently raise salaries for our team in India that supports Facebook as part of an annual review process that emphasizes paying a competitive market rate," the India-based technology outsourcing company said, responding to Reuters questions.
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The 0003/50 combined entity, Wind Tre, is one of Italy's largest mobile operators by subscribers, with a market share of over 35%, up from 3 Italia's 12% market share pre-merger, improving its competitiveness and profitability in a highly competitive market.
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But, says Robin Byde of Cantor Fitzgerald, a financial services company, in Europe this is the most fiercely competitive market of all, dominated by four big firms: Ryanair, easyJet, IAG (which includes British Airways, Aer Lingus and Iberia) and the Lufthansa group.
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Christine Varney, whose law firm represented Time Warner in its negotiations with AT&T, told CNBC on Tuesday that the federal government is as concerned about innovation as it is about maintaining a competitive market, which she believes will help the deal pass.
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OSLO/KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Norway's Telenor and Malaysia's Axiata Group are in talks to run a jointly owned telecoms giant in South and Southeast Asia with nearly 373 million customers, as they seek to drive up growth in a highly competitive market.
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"Video streaming, including original video content, is a highly competitive market with established traditional media houses as well new entrants fighting aggressively for incremental subscribers, which is likely to make it difficult to scale any new platform to compete effectively," Chatterjee said.
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The combined entity is one of the largest mobile operators in Italy by mobile subscribers, with a market share of just over a third (from 3 Italy's 12% market share, pre-merger), improving its competitiveness and profitability in a highly competitive market.
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Duong Tri Thanh, and his counterparts at other state-controlled Southeast Asian carriers such as Thai Airways International PCL and Malaysia Airlines, are trying to balance government desires for growth with what is best for the airlines' financial health in a competitive market.
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The company has stepped up its spending to stay ahead in a competitive market by launching a new line of point-of-sale hardware and plans to roll out Shopify Pay to rival Alphabet Inc's Google Pay and Apple Inc's payments services.
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"While the performance of our consumer products business continues to be impacted by an increasingly competitive market, we have made great progress across this business, and are encouraged by the improvements in our operating results," said the company's president and CEO Linda Massman.
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The spin off leaves MultiChoice - whose strong cash flow helped Naspers evolve into one of world's biggest players in e-commerce - free to fend for itself in an increasingly competitive market where Netflix is already supplying viewers with TV content and Hollywood hits.
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The spin off leaves MultiChoice — whose strong cash flow helped Naspers evolve into one world's biggest players in e-commerce - free to fend for itself in an increasingly competitive market where Netflix is already supplying viewers with TV content and Hollywood hits.
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Around 3 percent of cars sold in Britain last year were alternative fuel models - primarily plug-in hybrid and electric cars - but sales have risen 24 percent so far this year, with manufacturers seeking to attract buyers in an increasingly competitive market.
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In order for that core platform function of the utility to be performed in an efficient and neutral manner, it's ideal that the utilities responsible for managing those functions don't have any particular interest or stake in the outcomes of competitive [market] decisions.
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While Russia performs well in industries such as IT, agriculture and Soviet-era industries like aircraft manufacture, all three sectors have limited long-term growth potential as a result of their inferiority in a "competitive market dominated by global giants," Bush said.
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Duong Tri Thanh, and his counterparts at other state-controlled Southeast Asian carriers such as Thai Airways International and Malaysia Airlines, are trying to balance government desires for growth with what is best for the airlines' financial health in a competitive market.
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Other power generators that would benefit if the reactors shut down, however, have challenged New York and Illinois' nuclear payments in federal court, arguing the rules unfairly subsidize one fuel source in a federally administered competitive market and will boost ratepayer costs.
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Last month, Rick Perry, the secretary of energy, asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission — the independent agency that regulates electricity markets — to adopt a new rule to pay certain coal and nuclear plants more than they would otherwise earn in a competitive market.
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The buyers argue that by forcing iOS users to install apps via the app store and by taking a 30 percent cut from app developers, Apple controls a monopoly in which consumers end up paying more than they would in a competitive market.
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PARIS, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Elior, Europe's third-largest catering group, said it was considering a separation of some of concessions businesses, as part of a broader strategy to boost growth in a competitive market which saw the company issue a profit warning in May.
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One might think of it in terms of a simple equation: Revenue (what people will pay in a competitive market) minus cost (the value of resources used to provide a product or service) equals profit (a first-order indicator of a business's contribution to society).
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"The U.S. is such a competitive market and Wealthsimple will have to drop fees in order to get any play," William Trout, a senior analyst with research firm Celent and robo-advisory expert, said in an email, noting that existing U.S. competitors charge lower fees.
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"While Asia has significant potential as far fewer people already have insurance and savings products, Aviva likely lacks the scale to thrive in what is also a highly competitive market," Russ Mould, investment director at retail investment platform AJ Bell, said in a statement.
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First, the increasingly competitive market of SVOD services—which includes not only Netflix, Prime Video, Hulu, and CBS but a new influx of options from Apple, Disney, NBCUniversal, and WarnerMedia—makes it nearly impossible to find all the content you want in one place.
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As Saint Petersburg is the most competitive market in Russia due to the highest penetration of modern retail chains, Kesko's margins could also have been affected by increased competition due to slower consumer spending and the expansion of large food retailers, such as Lenta.
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The important commissions Alvise received in Venice by the 1480s — to work alongside the Bellini brothers in the decoration of the Doge's Palace and to produce altar paintings in prominent churches — is indicative of the esteem he enjoyed in the city's highly competitive market.
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For Monarch, "mounting cost pressures and increasingly competitive market conditions in the European short-haul market" led to "a sustained period of trading losses," Blair Nimmo, a partner at the accounting firm KPMG, which is acting as administrator for company, said in a news release.
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Bernard Chang, 41, and his fiancée, Anisa Heravian, 32, both emergency room doctors, are starry-eyed about the neighborhood, and about the apartment they bought for $1.328 million and are now renovating after losing out on three or four others in a competitive market.
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Imagine a competitive market in which they could choose among one network that offered higher privacy standards, another that cost a fee to join but had little advertising and another that would allow users to customize and tweak their feeds as they saw fit.
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Here are some of the main factors that may affect Swiss stocks: Novartis on Friday announced positive study results for its prospective multiple sclerosis drug ofatumumab that the Swiss drugmaker hopes will pose a stiff challenge to Roche's medicine Ocrevus in a highly competitive market.
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FRANKFURT, Nov 26 (Reuters) - Switzerland's Gategroup is nearing a deal to buy the European operations of Lufthansa's LSG unit, which the carrier has put on the block as it struggles with low margins in a competitive market, three people close to the matter said.
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"The combined company will have the scale required to ensure sustainable consumer choice in a competitive market and to expand new technologies — such as mobile money services — that have the potential to transform daily life for every Indian," Vodafone Group CEO Vittorio Colao added in a statement.
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Restaurant Brands, which also owns coffee chain Tim Hortons, and other food-chain owners such as McDonald's Corp, Yum Brands Inc and Dunkin' Donuts Group Inc have been trying to attract diners with cheaper-priced meals and more breakfast and coffee items in a highly competitive market.
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In addition, to the profitability questions and other allegations, the network for scholarly articles is facing a number of challenges in a competitive market where it's up against an open source, scholarly hub set up by academics – something that Madisch also seemed unfazed by, when asked.
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The lure of products promising to save on claims in a highly competitive market has led to a leap in investment in "insurtech" in Europe to more than $2300 million (2100 million pounds) in the first half of 2017, from just $50 million a year ago.
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And the American airline industry is already far from fully competitive market: Instead of using its carriers' complaints as justification for more protection, America would do more for its citizens by ending its restrictions on foreign ownership of airlines and offering complete freedom to operate internal flights.
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I am extremely delighted that we continue to uphold our extremely high quality performance ratings from all our multi-national clients – and despite a very challenging, highly regulated and competitive market landscape we continue to be the preferred supplier of choice within the diabetics' custom cases industry.
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For example, AT&T charges $70 per month for gigabit broadband in markets where they face competition from a municipal broadband network or alternative ISP like Google Fiber, but can charge up to $40 to $60 more for the same service in a less competitive market.
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He said Attijariwafa is not interested in Barclays Africa Group - which runs Absa in South Africa and Barclays-branded operations in a number of other countries - as it would not likely offer a majority stake and is largely made up of South Africa, a highly competitive market.
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In our conversation, Gina shares her unique perspective on building a company in a competitive market, how she approaches recruiting from a career development standpoint, why she starts each and every morning thinking about the big picture and the importance of finding time to listen to customers.
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High levels of financial inclusion in the country, the bank's already strong market position, expected lower growth of the GDP and competitive market conditions continue to challenge BG, which expects to continue seeking opportunities to grow without any relevant deterioration in its asset quality and capitalization metrics.
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The sportswear company has been taking a greater portion of market share away from some of its peers in the U.S. over recent quarters — a very competitive market as athletic apparel and shoe retailers try to reach shoppers following a number of bankruptcies by sporting-goods businesses.
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"The most notable decline was in India, where, due to wireless carriers significantly increasing their prices in recent months, the already competitive market for streaming services has come under increasing pressure on pricing," Ed Lavery, the director of investor solutions at SimilarWeb, said in a statement.
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"The company expects the 2020 EBITDA margin to remain around underlying (fourth-quarter) levels, reflecting delayed project sanctioning, continued progress on our new backlog - won in a very competitive market - as well as a different revenue mix with a high share of lower-margin brownfield activity," it added.
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MemSQL recently announced that it saw its fourth-quarter commercial booking hit 200 percent year-over-year growth — and that's typically the kind of growth that investors like to see, even as MemSQL plays in a very competitive market with plenty of incumbents, startups and even open-source projects.
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Fitch notes that ACGL has been increasing its premiums in mortgage and accident and health business, where profitability is currently more favorable, and decreasing its property catastrophe, energy and marine (re)insurance exposure, due to the continuing competitive market environment, particularly for property catastrophe excess of loss business.
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Key rating sensitivities that could result in an upgrade include: continued improvement in ACGL's competitive market position while demonstrating favorable run-rate earnings and low volatility with a non-mortgage combined ratio in the low 90s; and successfully managing the expansion of its USMI operations with the UGC acquisition.
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Coty's new CEO Laubies is likely to face challenges that were similar to those at JDE, which he led for more than four years and was responsible for overhauling a mass coffee brand in a highly competitive market, said Jonathan Feeney, managing partner at research firm Consumer Edge.
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Clearly, though, despite having achieved double-digit annual recurring revenue in those 10 years, the team now believes that it has an opportunity to grow its market share in what is becoming a more competitive market for tech hiring platforms — and to do so, it needs outside funding.
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"We believe these changes are critical to improving the risk pool, and would together promote a more competitive market with increased choice for consumers," the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said in the proposed rule, the first formal regulatory change the new Trump administration has proposed for Obamacare.
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Yet given the vast volume available, no one had expected the priciest spectrum - that offers deeper reach - to be bought now, as data demand in India is still in its infancy and data costs in the ultra-competitive market are falling, making it harder for carriers to justify big cash outlays.
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The huge share of the digital advertising market controlled by Google and Facebook also means they can charge more for those ads than they could in a more competitive market—costs that may be passed on to consumers with higher prices for the goods they buy online, the reports say.
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Turning to China, the story last year was flat smartphone sales, and Gartner is expecting "little growth" in the region in the next five years — couching it as a "saturated yet highly competitive" market — and noting that sales of smartphones represented 95 per cent of total mobile phones sales last year.
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LATAM has struggled in recent years, amid a merger with Brazilian airline TAM in 2012 that has not boosted profits and a more intensely competitive market that prompted the airline to adopt a low-cost model for its domestic flights, including new charges for checked luggage and preferred seating options.
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Christine Negroni: How the Boeing 22019 Maxes crashed, not one but two occasions, is the result of complicated decisions that were made early on in the process when they were trying to decide what they were going to do with their next narrow-body aircraft in a competitive market with Airbus.
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"We bring a lot of diversity into the community just by being a bar that employs people who are not old white people," said Erik Lars Myers, a founder of Mystery Brewing Company in Hillsborough, N.C. Still, embracing cultural diversity is no panacea for the realities of a competitive market.
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So the question of, how do you get competition back into this marketplace so that you can create room for the next great Apple or the next great Facebook or the next great Amazon, that's part of the reason you want to have a competitive market to make space for that.
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Nissan's bet on Datsun to succeed in Pakistan comes as increasing sales of the entry-level brand has been a bright spot in India, a highly competitive market where the automaker's market share has eased to around 1.6 percent due to sluggish demand for its marquee Sunny sedan and its SUVs.
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According to Herb Jackson, the designated pool reporter for the day, Trump's new policy on prescription drugs is that drug companies should get tax cuts and deregulation (emphasis added): I'll oppose anything that makes it harder for smaller, younger companies to take the risk of bringing their product to a vibrantly competitive market.
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"Although policy direction at the national level is clear, there are still factors at local government level that do not benefit the development of the NEV sector or the establishment of a fair, competitive market," said Wang Fengying, chief executive of China's Great Wall Motor Co Ltd and a delegate with Hebei province.
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The S8 marks the first major phone released by the company since the ill-fated Note 7, and along with the usual pressures of releasing a new flagship in an increasingly competitive market, Samsung has to come out from the shadow of the Note 7 with the Galaxy S8 to win back consumers.
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KEY RATING DRIVERS Strong Position in a Competitive Market: TELUS Corporation's (TELUS) ratings reflect the stability of the company's diversified operations, its position as one of the three principal national wireless operators in the Canadian market and its leading market position as a local wireline operator in western Canada and eastern Quebec.
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Read more: FedEx's new service delivers online orders hours after they're placed — and it shows that Amazon Prime isn't special anymore Obviously there's a very, very competitive market from a transit time perspective, and this allows us to be able to do that cost effectively, because we already have the courier workforce ready.
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The main problem with broadband access and service in the US is that there is little regional competition between ISPs, meaning there is no incentive for them to actually provide good service to customers or to honor the principles of net neutrality (which would be a no-brainer in a truly competitive market).
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The expansion will help ViacomCBS better contend in a competitive market that will soon be home not just to Netflix and Amazon Prime Video, but also a Disney-majority owned Hulu, Disney's family-friendly service Disney+, WarnerMedia's HBO Max, Comcast and NBCU's Peacock, Apple TV+ and Jeffrey Katzenberg's experimental mobile streamer, Quibi.
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For Lundbeck, the approval opens doors to a lucrative but competitive market dominated by already approved rivals from Amgen Inc, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd and Eli Lilly and Co. (Reporting by Manas Mishra and Mrinalika Roy in Bengaluru; Additional reporting by Akshay Balan in Bengaluru; Editing by Shinjini Ganguli and Sandra Maler)
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The following are some of the main factors expected to affect Swiss stocks: The Swiss drugmaker's Zykadia was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as an initial therapy for a certain type of lung cancer, a competitive market that Roche is also seeking to address with a medicine of its own.
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But he&aposs bullish on the ride-hailing business in the US."We think that is a very developed, rational, competitive market, and it&aposs only becoming less competitive with the market being solidified with two players that are both public, that are both driving to profitability at a faster pace," he said.
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The bank is optimistic this will be able to command a decent market share in equity research, after the new European Union rules bed in that require this to be priced separately from trade execution under MiFID II. It declined to specify precise revenue expectations in what is believed to be a competitive market.
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The second is something I'd never really thought about, but makes perfect sense: Philippon pointed out that companies going bankrupt is actually a sign of an efficient, competitive market, because it means companies have to price their products and services very low in order to compete, instead of extracting as much profit as possible.
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Steps like demanding social media handles to review visa applicants' social media histories; tightening H-1B visa regulations; and things like the rescission of the entrepreneur rule all shape the ways in which potential emigres view the U.S. In a globally competitive market, roadblocks and obstacles will convince would-be job creators to look elsewhere to launch businesses.
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RATING SENSITIVITIES Key rating triggers that could result in an upgrade include improvement in ACGL's competitive market position while demonstrating favorable run-rate earnings and low volatility in the challenging (re)insurance environment, with a combined ratio in the low 90s; and successfully managing both the mortgage operations and the Watford Re platform, with exposure growth prudently managed.
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In the case of the competitive market insights, the "similar" of its name is a good product/branding fit, although it actually started as a different business: its first product iteration was as a Firefox plug-in that helped you find websites that you might like to visit that were "similar" to those you were already browsing.
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As a businessman, President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE should appreciate the competitive market-based approach and the great return on investment this fund has delivered to the American people.
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SANTIAGO, Chile — Through the strong will of our people, we peacefully recovered our democracy 30 years ago and gave birth to a new and modern republic, founded on three basic tenets: a deep commitment to democracy and the rule of law, an open and competitive market economy, and a strong determination to defeat poverty and increase equality of opportunities.
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The compensation announcements — made to staff on Thursday, first reported by The Information and confirmed to us by sources close to the company — underscore how Airbnb is trying to keep people happy in an ultra-competitive market for talent, and how it is trying to get its ducks in line as it continues to contemplate the best way to grow in future years.
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While we are increasingly hearing a mantra to "buy local," the reality of how the mass-market world of trade works is that components for things are not often made in the same place where the ultimate item is assembled, and our on-demand digital culture has created an expectation and competitive market for more than what we can source in our backyards.
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This will mean that users of Citymapper will be able to select bike routes on the app, and also see where they can find a Mobike to complete those journeys, giving the bike-hire-on-demand company one more way to snag customers in what is shaping up to be a very competitive market for transportation options geared to single users.
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"When you get to a place in a sector of the economy where 40 to 50 percent of that business volume is represented by four or fewer players, you have by definition what most economists would say is a non-competitive [market], or at least a market that is less competitive than it ought to be," said Roger Johnson, president of the group.
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The $39.99 price point is not yet set in stone – it could still come down, but won't likely rise given Hulu's earlier promises and the now fiercely competitive market for streaming TV. Asked about the pricing, a Hulu spokesperson said the company is still in the process of building its live content package and has not finalized any pricing yet.
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"[T]he decision in this case will chart the course for the future of video-content delivery in the United States—either important video content will be available through a competitive market to all distributors, including up-and-coming innovators, or it will likely only be available through vertically integrated, well-funded silos," prosecutors wrote in a pretrial brief last week.
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Mr. Rubin is the face of what appears to be a new normal in the real estate business: Homeowners are moving less, creating a drag on the economy, fewer commissions for real estate brokers and a brutally competitive market for first-time home shoppers who cannot find much for sale and are likely to be disappointed during real estate's spring selling season.
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I think Blümio has positioned itself in a tremendously competitive market, but with a potentially huge pay-out at the end — heart health is a big topic, and while their technology still has a lot of challenges ahead of it before it's ready for prime-time use, it's definitely one to keep an eye on if you're a medtech investor or medical device manufacturer.
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To champion U.S. energy leadership abroad, the president should appoint an assistant secretary of State for Bureau of Energy Resources to advocate for these interests, signal commitment to maritime security with Gulf partners, lead in collective security operations to protect vital sea lanes from the Gulf to markets in our hemisphere, Asia and Europe, and work with European partners to ensure our allies enjoy a diversified competitive market.
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Krueger, an economist at Princeton and the former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, wrote in an essay last year, "The Rigged Labor Market": New practices have emerged to facilitate employer collusion, such as noncompete clauses and no-raid pacts, but the basic insights are the same — employers often implicitly, and sometimes explicitly, act to prevent the forces of competition from enabling workers to earn what a competitive market would dictate.
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Energy Secretary Rick PerryJames (Rick) Richard PerryThe credible case for Texas and its clean energy solutions Oversight: Trump confidant Tom Barrack pushed for Saudi nuclear plant construction Amazon taps Trump ally to lobby amid Pentagon cloud-computing contract fight MORE defended his proposal for high payments to nuclear and coal plants Friday, hitting back at the idea that his new proposal to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) would disrupt a competitive market.
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RATING SENSITIVITIES Key rating sensitivities that could result in an upgrade include improvement to a very strong business profile as a result of an enhanced relative competitive market position; demonstrating favorable run-rate earnings and low volatility, with a combined ratio in the low 90s; growth in risk-adjusted capital while maintaining a NPW-to-equity ratio of 0.8x or lower; a financial leverage ratio at or below 20%; and fixed-charge coverage of at least 13x.
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For a free and competitive market that will actually help America's patients, what we really need is to restore fairness to the patent system in the U.S. It may be convenient to blame foreign countries or insurance companies or any number of culprits for our high drug prices, but until we look at the heart of the problem and stop deflecting, patients in the U.S. and around the world will continue to lack treatments they can access and afford.
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The FCC thinks the best way to do that is to let any company build a front-end interface to cable TV and create a competitive market for cable TV hardware and software, while the cable companies say that they're already facing a ton of competition from streaming apps like Netflix and Hulu, and they have lots of market-based incentives to get rid of cable boxes and move to an app-based model that makes their services better and faster.
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The startup behind the world's first marijuana breathalyzer just raised a fresh $30 million and offered a glimpse at how the device worksAnd this week, I spoke with the CEO of the new pharmacy startup Zipdrug, which is creating its own network of pharmacies to deliver prescription drugs to seniors in the US. We walk you through how the new startup operates and discuss how the startup will break into a competitive market, with big players like CVS Health already offering similar services.
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As Nutanix reels once again from another time of severe crisis, marked by a global pandemic that threatens to plunge the world into another recession, Pandey is drawing key lessons from his odyssey — from a young man from a lower middle class family in India awed by the "stoic endurance" of his parents to a tech entrepreneur who launched a company at the height of a downturn, that is battling it out with bigger rivals in a fast-changing, highly competitive market.
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