Sentences with phrase «less market power»

«The change is a big deal, rewarding the biggest firms at the expense of smaller firms that have less market power.»

Not exact matches

Apple and two publishers, Penguin and Macmillan, are holding out and saying that their «agency pricing» deal was designed to counter Amazon's growing power and therefore make the ebook market more competitive, not less.

This has helped awaken political interest in consumer rights, but less attention has been paid to how airlines could wield market power to depress wages.

The FTSE Russell consultation resulted in a decision to exclude past and future developed market constituents whose free float constitutes less than 5 percent of total voting power.

President Trump even acknowledged that his powers over the stock market are less than omnipotent.

De-stabilised Middle East, rise of new power in Saudi Arabia, aggressive China, Russia - US tensions, Turkey - Russia escalation, rise of autocratic but nationalists leaders such as Modi in India, Trump in United States, bin - Salman in Middle East, the Geo - Political unease hasn't been this tense in decades, so as a market participant you can never care less than ever.

Production of goods, marketing, financial backing and promotion are all increasingly planned at a transnational level, with the result that national governments have less economic power (especially smaller states, or those in the so - called developing world).

The recommendations relating to competition have not been enacted (yet)- they included reinstating specific anti-price discrimination provisions, inhibiting firms achieving market power through takeovers or abusing market power (because they didn't think ss 46 and / or 50 were effective in achieving this) and expressly defining «market power» «so that it is less than market dominance and does not require a firm to have unfettered power to set prices» (apparently they were unfamiliar with the 2007 amendments to s 46).

French journalist (sports journalists) already told him on L'Equipe, you have 10 - 12 midfielders who are more or less the same (short, skilled, no power) and you have no solutions for crucial alternatives (that was during the transfer market as it was closing)...!!

The cute - as - a-button Duux Air Humidifier Mushroom uses 80 percent less power than other models on the market and blasts cold mist within a second.

So after more than 12 years in power, the UK's main stock market index has risen just 12 % under Labour - less than 1 % a year.

Technological innovations have dropped the price of wind and solar in some markets to be not only competitive with traditional fossil fuel power generation, but sometimes less expensive, said Malcolm Woolf, senior vice president of policy and government affairs for Advanced Energy Economy.

But even before China flexed its market - dominating power a slew of scientific researchers had been investigating how to use less rare earths — or even none at all — by fabricating better magnetic materials.

The move would give the FCC power to enforce net neutrality as well as open broadband lines up to third - party competition, enabling free markets to deliver better service for less money.

The technology developed and tested at Waterloo is much simpler and far less expensive, paving the way for its use in engines for power generation, mining vehicles, the trucking industry and a host of other applications, including the consumer automotive market.

Founded by CSNE research leader, Josh Smith, and his students at the University of Washington, Jeeva Wireless is revolutionizing the way devices communicate by providing wireless connectivity using 10,000 times less power than the best low - power solutions currently on the market.

The power, impeccable chassis tuning, and artful interior win me over, but I'm still not sold on the XFR itself, especially when Jaguar still sells an equally fun and equally fast (if slightly less powerful) XF Supercharged in our market.

My old 1983 Volkswagen Rabbit GTI had less power and more weight than the Euro - market Golf GTI.

The lesser versions weren't that special the G60 1.8 not really powerful enough, but quite a difference with that 2.8 VR6 there was also in some markets a VR6 2.3 if my memory hasn't failed me - similar power I think as the G60 1.8 but the 2.3 being a much nicer engine even though performance was no greater.

One of the ways Kia gained a foothold in the market is in offering more equipment than the competition for less money, and that continues with the Spectra: The $ 15,995 base price gets you air conditioning, power heated outside mirrors, fog lights, a six - speaker stereo with CD player, cruise control, power locks and windows, remote locking and a tilt steering wheel.

As local taxation strongly penalized cars over two - litre in displacement, Italian buyers were offered a 2.0 L version, which developed a little more power (287 PS or 211 kW) but less torque than the 2.8; on the home market the 2.8 was not offered until a year after its introduction.

For its critical entry - level car, Hyundai Motor America borrows features from the middle of the market.The 1995 Accent features high - tech equipment that had been unavailable to shoppers at the bottom of the market, including a multilink suspension and four - speed, electronically controlled transmission mated to a multivalve engine.The new car starts at $ 8,079 - $ 6 less than the lowest priced Geo Metro and $ 689 more than the Excel, which the Accent replaces.Company officials said Hyundai has learned that competing on price alone won't give you staying power in the United States.

According to Professor Alex Henzen, the core member of the SCNU team and technical leader on e-paper, outdoor billboards made of such an electrowetting based reflective e-paper technology would take up less than 1 % of the power consumption of LED and TFT - LCD displays of a similar size, making the new technology very attractive for the digital signage market.

With so much popularity for Google's OS there was less and less market share for BlackBerry to snag, but things could change for the Canadian company now that they have just launched their first - ever Android powered smartphone, the PRIV, which has hit BlackBerry's online web store and AT&T stores nationwide.

There is a market for this and let me tell you the public wants something that has enough power to handle the big stuff not some dual core POS with 512 or 1gig of memory that will be outdated in less then a year.

If an author and publisher have worked together through prior writing, marketing and publicity to get me really excited about a particular book then more power to them if I'm willing to pay more for the privilege of reading that book than I would for a book by a less - successful author - publisher team.

Cost of silicon, size and complexity are probably in the equation and there's probably a marketing advantage in using a higher clockrate but you would think that if this theory of more cores x lower clock = less power is true, Intel would be doing it too considering how badly they want to get into smartphones.

Their hope then is they can drive Amazon's market share down from close to 50 % to 30 % or less so Amazon loses power over the book market.

The point is that trading the markets with a feeling of «need» results in you focusing most of your brain power on money and profits and much less of it on managing risk and mastering an effective Forex trading strategy like price action trading.

While CMP's SOP business will be sensitive to broader trends in agricultural markets, its barriers to entry, high value provided to growers of specialty crops, and solid pricing power make the business much less volatile and more profitable than traditional potash fertilizer (which, unlike SOP, includes chloride).

Investors who buy a minimum volatility fund may be looking to harness the power of factors to seek less risk while maintaining market exposure.

Technology assisted advisors are able to leverage the efficiency of Internet marketing to charge less and require smaller minimums than traditional advisors, but they don't leverage the full power of automation to drive costs to a minimum.

In bigger markets like commodities, I suspect the ability to manipulate prices is less, because there are more players trading, and the power is equal between buyers and sellers.

Source: Mortgage Bankers Association; Powered by Ellie Mae's AllRegs ® Market Clarity ® Data prior to 3/31/2011 was generated using less frequent and less complete data measured at 6 - month intervals interpolated in the months between for charting purposes.

Now that the job market and the housing market have both improved significantly and consumers have more buying power, many consumers appear to be less afraid of losing that liquidity.

Obviously, with this being the first of many steam machines to market, there may be boxes from other manufacturers that have a smaller (or larger) footprint, more (or less) power, and better (or worse) design.

While people motivated by profit have had incredible power to influence trends and reputations, those with less financial stake ought to take it as their duty to resist these tendencies and to question the supposed absolutes of the market.

An interesting result of the growing power of the market is that artists and their dealers are looking for ways, through copyright law, to con trol what is written or broadcast about the work, so as to prevent critics who might feel less than prostrate admiration for it from saying anything about it at all.

Much has been written about Gates» mobilization of the art market as a kind of fundraiser for privatized social programs, but less has been said about the power of this scheme to pardon any failings in the works themselves.

As already indicated in the title, De Cock's project covers nothing less than the relation between the market, art, power and freedom, or simply «Everything».

The board has attracted high - powered market types like Mr. Schwartzman, dealer Lawrence Luhring and Frieze Art Fair director Amanda Sharp, as well as prominent artists like Rirkrit Tiravanija and Ms. Harrison, and they're all working to build an organization with an annual budget of only about $ 1 million — less than the price of many Damien Hirst spot paintings — into a place that can host important debates, and maybe provoke some arguments.

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In other markets where windpower was significant, like the Midwest / Central and Texas regions, the large majority of negative pricing were attributed to nuclear, coal and less flexible natural gas power plant operations unable to adjust as demand changed.

It's not hard to think about more wombats and less hairy - nosed taxes and a couple more pieces of the taxation jigsaw to set up a widely comprehendable, level playing field CM that gives true countervailing market power to the natural environment, that is so sadly lacking now.

Notably, LCOE for commercial solar power has been coming down in all 7 countries a great deal, but, as might be expected, they've been coming down slowest in the countries already at grid parity, which have more mature solar PV markets and have less incentive to further cut prices:

Recharge News The first deal under rules enabling supply under private PPAs marks another step forward for Argentina's rapidly - evolving renewable power market, writes Alexandre Spatuzza Less than a month after the Argentine government finalised the rules for the non-regulated market, power trading firm Saesa signed the first contract to build a 5MW PV plant to supply clean electricity via private PPAs to...

How Less Became More: Wind, Power and Unintended Consequences in the Colorado Energy Market Bentek Energy

Artificial changes due government coercive power exercised on the Fair Market to favor a single industry or private party are always in some sense anti-democratic (in that they influence the individual decision - making of buyers and sellers); a narrower case where the change harms a single industry or private group is less anti-democratic but still interference.

«Gross Revenues» means the total monies received by Grantee from a utility company or other power purchaser (provided, however, that if electricity is sold to a subsidiary or affiliate of Grantee, then, and only then, the gross receipts from the sale of electricity under such contract shall be calculated using a sale of not less than the arithmetical average of the prices quoted by market sources of information, which information may be based upon the price paid by any purchaser or purchasers, including Grantee or any subsidiary or affiliate of Grantee, for electricity produced in the Iowa region of the Midwest Independent System Operator («MISO») from operation of wind turbines during the calendar year immediate!y preceding the year in which such electricity production from the Wind Energy Project occurs, taking into account the aggregate terms associated with such transaction) derived from the sale of electric energy and capacity produced and sold from the WTG's installed on the Premises, net of proportional energy losses associated with the power collection system or utility interconnection.

It's becoming less and less expensive to install too — making it ready and able to compete with natural gas and other power sources on the open market.