Sentences with phrase «much market power»

Unfortunately, the big companies like Google, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, have so much market power they may force us down this road nevertheless.

What I'm saying is: VantageScore was created because FICO's customers thought FICO had too much market power.

Instead, my book was motivated by a distinct, albeit related, concern: that in the scholarly world, journal publishers had too much market power and that academics, despite the best of their intentions, had been mostly unable to do anything about it.

It was a muscle - flexing exhibition by Amazon, saying, «We've got so much market power, you guys can't do what you've traditionally done and take your goods elsewhere.

«I think anybody who has this much market power, we're going to have these questions about them,» he said.

Often the Big Six generate the power, sell it, keep the wires operating — they do everything... Certainly, they have too much market power, and tend to act as a chorus.

That this House: (1) notes with concern the impact on the Dairy Industry of the Coles milk pricing strategy and that: (a) dairy farmers around the country are today seriously questioning their future having suffered through one of the worst decades in memory including droughts, floods, price cuts and rising cost of inputs such as energy and feed; (b) unsustainable retail milk prices will, over time, compel processors to renegotiate contracts with dairy farmers and the prospect that these contracts will be below the cost of production may force many to leave the industry; (c) the fact that supermarkets are now selling milk cheaper than many varieties of bottled water will be the straw that finally breaks the camel's back for many dairy farmers; and (d) the risk of other potential impacts includes: (i) decreased competition as name brands are forced from the shelves; and (ii) the possible loss of fresh milk supplies to some parts of the country as local fresh milk industries become unviable; and (2) calls on the Government to: (a) ask the ACCC to immediately examine the big supermarkets and milk wholesalers after recent price cuts to ensure they do not have too much market power and are not anti-competitive in their behaviour; and (b) support the new Senate inquiry into the ongoing milk price war between the country's major supermarket chains».

Tabcorp and Tatts merger will need ACCC approval, but both will argue increased competition means it won't have too much market power.

The president has said the merger would concentrate too much market power in one company.

You want to use it for marketing, because there is so much marketing power when you have a print book.

Not exact matches

«This is a much - needed, pragmatic look at U.S. electricity reliability and resilience, including the priority of maintaining critical clean baseload power as electricity markets change,» said Rich Powell, director of ClearPath, which advocates for nuclear and hydropower.

The British Competition and Markets Authority has provisionally nixed 21st Century Fox's $ 26 billion takeover of media company Sky, saying it may not be in the public interest as it would put too much power in Rupert Murdoch's hands.

Australia's competition watchdog believes the planned global merger of oilfield services companies Halliburton and Baker Hughes could give the combined group, and current market leader Schlumberger, too much power.

This gets at part of the reason why I believe so much in the power of everyday people to bring their ideas to market.

But unless these announcements are 100 % marketing hype, they indicate that much more software power will be concentrated in fewer, albeit bigger, data centers owned and operated by just a handful of cloud computing giants.

Much of the future market for these resources will lie in developing nations, but Canada lags comparable powers (notably Australia) in developing trade in fast - growing Asia.

With the explosion of social media and other interactive websites plus the vastness of the Internet itself and online users, much of the marketing power has shifted out of the marketer's hands and into the consumers.

The difference between good or bad markets can come down to where you are in your career, how much time you have remaining to save and most importantly, your level of human capital or future earnings power.

When used effectively, sales intelligence dramatically enhances the power of the rest of your sales and marketing tech stack — accelerating your pipeline and revenue growth, not just by virtue of the data it delivers but because it makes all of our other tools and programs that much more effective.

Moody's chief economist, who helps compile the data, noted that the US labour market continues to power ahead, and job creation was strong across nearly all industries and company sizes, adding «mounting labour shortages are set to get much worse» in the months ahead.

Trying to save without the power of compounding interest in the stock market is much more difficult than if you use it.

Yesterday, Apollo Power (TASE: APLP) became the latest stock market company in Israel to announce that it was looking to become active in cryptocurrencies - an announcement that sent the company's share price rocketing by as much as 150 % in the course of yesterday's session.

In an increasingly competitive market in security of the supply chain, nanochip (r) IBM will have the same computing power as its much longer equivalent since the early nineties.

In addition, Paul also discusses the power of mindset in building wealth, the key to investing in emerging markets, and much more.

These corporate middlemen have as much power over the small farmers of America as they do over sovereign nations in the market to purchase grain.

Against new knowledge, as men gain new wisdoms from science and new power in the universe, there is no Lordship of Christ over all the ages, unless His voice can speak with as much authority affirming and defining now, and a thousand years from now, as it did in the market towns of Galilee, in the Temple at Jerusalem, and along the shore of the Sea of Tiberias.

There's so much room for abuse by power - players that the free - market functions more like a plantation with a captive work force.

But my point here is that unsatisfactory economic ideas and practices which have an impressive history of failure, which caused to founder that great nation California, which lie at the root of much of the shame and dread and division and hostility and cynicism with which our society is presently afflicted, are treated as immutable truths, not to be questioned, not to be interfered with, lest they unleash their terrible retribution, recoiling against whomever would lay a hand on the Ark of Market Economics, if that is the name under which this mighty power is currently invoked.

«Confirmation by the UK Government that it wants devolved powers over food labelling to transfer to them creates further risk and uncertainty, when much of our success depends on our ability to market Scottish produce and provenance effectively.

[5.8] There are several other well recognised criteria which are much more indicative of whether there is market power, particularly the existence of substantial entry barriers, and relative freedom from constraints imposed on a firm by its competitors and customers.

It is much clearer for Arsenal supporters to see that their spending power restricts our ability to buy the best players who come onto the market, it is now generally understood that Arsenal can not compete with their financial muscle.

Hard to know how much he is going to be risked, by Son Heung - Min has been in pretty good scoring form lately and is a good proportion at even money * (Betting Odds taken at 4:51 p.m. on April 3rd, 2018) in the Paddy Power anytime scorer market.

The idea behind FOCUS is simple: large school districts procure so much food that they have considerable market power (second only to the U.S. military when it comes to food purchasing), which FOCUS helps them leverage to pressure manufacturers into producing better food.

A U.N. investigation would investigate details like who is to blame, how to make it stop, what market forces or ideologies or political power plays contribute to it, etc... but political questions don't get much easier than this.

They also call for greater cooperation with developing countries, saying: «We have a chance to build much more ambitious energy partnerships with China, India and others that will leverage our market power with theirs and potentially set the technology standards for a global low carbon economy.

He admitted that Europe had meddled too much in some areas and now needs to focus on completing the single market with a respect national sovereignty and also avoiding any new powers for the eurozone against the EU as a whole.

It is debatable whether the middle classes should have gained quite so much from these benefits, but they can hardly look to the Conservatives as their saviours as they face higher university fees, more taxes, rising interest rates, bigger utility bills, a stagnant property market and a general tightening of their spending power.

In addition, much of the economy is still not a market economy, but rather state - run in terms of the way prices are set, and that's particularly true of the power sector.

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.

Technologies for capturing and storing carbon dioxide emissions hold tremendous promise for addressing climate change, but much work remains to ensure timely, cost - effective deployment in key markets such as the electric power industry.

The Market - Power Renewables Act and the Renewable Energy Credit Act: ALEC and other Koch - funded State Policy Network groups like the Heartland Institute haven't had much success with their attempts to repeal state renewable portfolio standard (RPS) laws through the ALEC / Heartland Electricity Freedom Act.

Again, the studies discussed above do not offer much explanation, but two theories come to mind: perhaps universities look to exploit their pricing power in the market leading them to raise tuition whether appropriations rise or fall; or maybe when faced with a reduction in state funding, universities cut spending instead of raising tuition dollar for dollar.

There is now so much money and power backing market - driven reforms that it is nearly impossible for alternative views to break through.

Although similar in size to the Impala, the SS's rear - drive configuration and V - 8 power, not to mention its considerably higher overall price, give it an much more focused, niche appeal than the mass - market positioning of the Impala.

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.

The result is a small SUV with enough power to smoke pretty much any other practical car on the market.

Also sold as the Toyota GT - 86 in overseas markets, and as the Subaru BRZ with slightly different equipment and suspension tuning, it's the kind of car you don't see much anymore: 2 +2 seating, low curb weight, modest power, rear - wheel - drive.

There's been much speculation with regard to what engine the Ford Ranger Raptor will come equipped with when it goes on sale in Australia next year — not to mention what will power it in the North American market, assuming it ever arrives.

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