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The result is 35 artists who have substantial markets by total auction sales over four years.

Not exact matches

Research into consumer attitudes toward entomophagy is relatively scarce, but a 2014 poll conducted by market researcher Mintel found a substantial proportion of non-insect eaters would be interested in trying bugs: 21 % of Germans; 26 % of Americans; 27 % of U.K. residents and 52 % of Chinese.

That is a shame because the benefits of those rules exceed their costs by a substantial margin — not just nationally but within each individual electricity market region — as demonstrated in my latest paper with UT Austin Law Professor David Adelman.

This «generated substantial revenues for Wells Fargo» and provided «critical seed money that kept the funds afloat by boosting market share,» the complaint said.

Dash, a cryptocurrency that formerly went by the name Darkcoin, received substantial media attention when a few mid-sized markets implemented it in 2014.

As broad market conditions have been eroding over the past month, subscribers of The Wagner Daily newsletter who have been following the signals of our market timing system should be quite happy now because they would have been out of all long positions of individual stocks just a few days before last Friday's (October 19) big decline, thereby avoiding substantial losses and the pain that is now being felt by traditional «buy and hold» investors right now.

In bonds, Friday's tepid unemployment report was accompanied by a substantial decline in both real and nominal yields - enough to move the Market Climate in bonds to a condition of both unfavorable valuations and unfavorable market aMarket Climate in bonds to a condition of both unfavorable valuations and unfavorable market amarket action.

«In the steel sector, free markets globally are adversely affected by substantial chronic global excess steel production led by China,» read one of the key findings of the Commerce Department's steel investigation report.

Foreign stocks offer substantial diversification benefits because they tend to be affected by different economic factors than the U.S. markets.

Among widely followed indicators, we can see some of this in the declining number of individual stocks achieving new 52 - week highs when the major market indices push higher, by the tendency for trading volume to become dull on advances and expand on declines (or what is a similar observation, the tendency for the market to make little progress on heavy up - volume and substantial downside progress on light down - volume), and in the recent explosion of insider selling.

Still, I did increase the Fund's call option purchases near the end of the week, and expect to add to that position toward 2 % of assets if the market clears its overbought condition by a decline of a few percent further (provided that we don't also observe a substantial deterioration of internal market action).

Following an interest - rate hike by the Mexican central bank, the Mexican peso saw substantial gains as the quarter - point increase satisfied market expectations.

While the Strategic Growth Fund does have enough call options presently to reduce our hedge by about 40 % in the event of a substantial continued advance (they currently provide us with a 10 - 15 % exposure to market fluctuations), that position still amounts to only about 1 % of assets.

The use by the respondents of the aforesaid false, misleading and deceptive statements, representations and practices has had, and now has, the capacity and tendency to mislead members of the public into the erroneous and mistaken belief that said statements and representations were and are true and into the investment of substantial sums of money to participate in the respondents» multilevel marketing program and the purchase of substantial quantities of respondents» products by reason of said erroneous and mistaken belief.

Silver lining: by virtue of having renters in place before the local market went further south (when hospital closed), we were able to take a substantial ordinary loss on last year's tax return.

As usual, I don't place too much emphasis on this sort of forecast, but to the extent that I make any comments at all about the outlook for 2006, the bottom line is this: 1) we can't rule out modest potential for stock appreciation, which would require the maintenance or expansion of already high price / peak earnings multiples; 2) we also should recognize an uncomfortably large potential for market losses, particularly given that the current bull market has now outlived the median and average bull, yet at higher valuations than most bulls have achieved, a flat yield curve with rising interest rate pressures, an extended period of internal divergence as measured by breadth and other market action, and complacency at best and excessive bullishness at worst, as measured by various sentiment indicators; 3) there is a moderate but still not compelling risk of an oncoming recession, which would become more of a factor if we observe a substantial widening of credit spreads and weakness in the ISM Purchasing Managers Index in the months ahead, and; 4) there remains substantial potential for U.S. dollar weakness coupled with «unexpectedly» persistent inflation pressures, particularly if we do observe economic weakness.

Glass Lewis has achieved this substantial market share in less than two years by providing investors with the only contextual, conflict - free proxy research service covering companies around the world.

It is also worth pointing out that downward pressure on the price of «paper» gold that was not supported by the «physical» market would inevitably result in the price of «paper» gold making a sustained and substantial move below the price of the physical commodity, which hasn't happened.

This selling pressure formed by the overhead supply is what makes it difficult for a confirmed down trending market to fully reverse into a new uptrend, at least without a substantial period of correction by time («back and fill» price action).

«Given that the US garnered nearly 77 per cent of this total — followed by China at 3.7 per cent, the UK at 2.9 per cent, and Japan at 2 per cent — there is room for substantial growth by Canada exporters in the Mexican market.»

If there is a competitive drug market, with limited advantage offered by the new drug in terms of increased effectiveness or reduced side effects, the drug will probably not win substantial market share in its product category.

Due to the effects of market sentiment the gold price occasionally will diverge from its «true fundamentals» (as indicated by the GTFM) for up to a few months, but ALL substantial upward and downward trends in the gold price over the past 15 years have been consistent with the fundamental backdrop.

But until the market takes out the significant 108.15 level I continue to view the current move as little more than a pre FOMC meeting squeeze driven by yields and positioning and believe there will be substantial resistance between 107.50 - 108 levels.

Over the past three months, the financial market economists surveyed by the Bank have made no substantial revisions to their near - term forecasts for inflation, with the median CPI inflation forecast for the year to June 2004 remaining unchanged at 2.3 per cent (Table 17).

We believe that the numerous headwinds to economic growth are creating substantial downside risks to the economy and corporate earnings that, until recently, were not being appropiately discounted by an increasingly euphoric stock market.

These rallies were set in motion by substantial stock market declines and plummeting confidence in central banks, commercial banks and the economy's prospects.

If we had «jumped the gun» by attempting to sell short the market prior to our setups trading through their exact trigger prices, it would have resulted in substantial losses over the past few days.

Mortgage managers were slow to start but by the end of the first half of the 1990s, they were gaining substantial market share from other lenders.

Regulation A + will more than likely produce an increased number of securities subject to Rule 15c2 - 11, and without changes to the piggyback exception, could lead to a substantial increase in the number of microcap securities manipulated by nefarious issuers and market makers.

Going back to 1950, in 12 out of 26 years when January finished in the red, the stock market actually ended higher, and often by a very substantial amount.

Examples of these risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to the impact of: adverse general economic and related factors, such as fluctuating or increasing levels of unemployment, underemployment and the volatility of fuel prices, declines in the securities and real estate markets, and perceptions of these conditions that decrease the level of disposable income of consumers or consumer confidence; adverse events impacting the security of travel, such as terrorist acts, armed conflict and threats thereof, acts of piracy, and other international events; the risks and increased costs associated with operating internationally; our expansion into and investments in new markets; breaches in data security or other disturbances to our information technology and other networks; the spread of epidemics and viral outbreaks; adverse incidents involving cruise ships; changes in fuel prices and / or other cruise operating costs; any impairment of our tradenames or goodwill; our hedging strategies; our inability to obtain adequate insurance coverage; our substantial indebtedness, including the ability to raise additional capital to fund our operations, and to generate the necessary amount of cash to service our existing debt; restrictions in the agreements governing our indebtedness that limit our flexibility in operating our business; the significant portion of our assets pledged as collateral under our existing debt agreements and the ability of our creditors to accelerate the repayment of our indebtedness; volatility and disruptions in the global credit and financial markets, which may adversely affect our ability to borrow and could increase our counterparty credit risks, including those under our credit facilities, derivatives, contingent obligations, insurance contracts and new ship progress payment guarantees; fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; overcapacity in key markets or globally; our inability to recruit or retain qualified personnel or the loss of key personnel; future changes relating to how external distribution channels sell and market our cruises; our reliance on third parties to provide hotel management services to certain ships and certain other services; delays in our shipbuilding program and ship repairs, maintenance and refurbishments; future increases in the price of, or major changes or reduction in, commercial airline services; seasonal variations in passenger fare rates and occupancy levels at different times of the year; our ability to keep pace with developments in technology; amendments to our collective bargaining agreements for crew members and other employee relation issues; the continued availability of attractive port destinations; pending or threatened litigation, investigations and enforcement actions; changes involving the tax and environmental regulatory regimes in which we operate; and other factors set forth under «Risk Factors» in our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and subsequent filings by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

«Our various proposals to change Section 46 are in essence not aimed at what happens on the playing field, but instead seek to address exclusionary behaviour akin to when one team with substantial market power has locked the other in their change rooms and is seeking to win by default.»

The ACCC has released a Statement of Issues outlining concerns with proposed acquisition of Macquarie Generation by AGL and have stated that its preliminary view is that the acquisition would result in a substantial lessening of competition in one retail and at least one wholesale market.

Against this, the ACCC considers that the proposed acquisition would result, or be likely to result, in substantial public detriment constituted by a lessening of competition, due to raised barriers to entry and expansion for smaller electricity retailers in NSW and a material risk of increased generator market power.

ACCC Chairman, Rod Sims, said that the «ACCC was concerned that the joint marketing arrangements were likely to have resulted in a substantial lessening of competition in the market for the supply of gas to buyers in the southern states» and that the ACCC believed «that competition in this market was negatively affected by the elimination of independent rivalry between BHP and Esso.»

There are several other well recognised criteria which are more indicative of the presence (or absence) of market power, particularly the existence of substantial entry barriers, and the relative freedom from constraints imposed on a firm by its competitors and customers, which should be considered in order to determine a firm's market power.

[5.9] The effective operation of the CCA would be profoundly undermined by seeking to simplify the analysis of whether a firm possesses substantial market power to having regard only to its market share.»]

If it did, there is the potential for pro-competitive conduct by firms with substantial market power to be deterred, with consequentially reduced gains in efficiency and productivity and hence economic welfare.

[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.

The government response also rejects the idea that substantial tax revenue could be raised by taking the # 6 billion per annum cannabis market out of the black economy:

This «substantial market» exists despite the rare tiger being fully protected by law — with steep fines and tough jail sentences for transgressors.

Estimates of these costs range from $ 100 - million to $ 1.2 - billion for each new drug that makes it to market, and a substantial chunk of this funding is consumed by establishing that a drug is both safe and effective.

Search theory suggests early career job changes lead to better matches that benefit both workers and firms, but this may not hold true in teacher labor markets characterized by salary rigidities, barriers to entry, and substantial differences in working conditions.

Section 1502 of TEA - 21 states that «a Federal credit program for projects of national significance can complement existing funding resources by filling market gaps, thereby leveraging substantial private co-investment.»

The TIFIA program is intended to fill market gaps and leverage substantial private co-investment by providing flexible credit assistance to projects of national or regional significance.

The TIFIA credit program is designed to fill market gaps and leverage substantial private co-investment by providing supplemental and subordinate capital.

The Chevrolet and GMC HD trucks already command substantial market share, so the pace of their improvement is driven by more than an advertising headline.

One of the many reasons the first - generation Nissan Titan failed to make a substantial dent in the pickup market was its lack of configurability — there simply wasn't a wide enough range of power trains, bed lengths, trim packages and options to satisfy pickup buyers, who are used to being catered to with startling specificity by Detroit automakers.

The automaker opened bookings for this sedan throughout the nation, about a month ago and considering that this is the most economical offering by the luxury automaker, it has garnered substantial interest in the market.

«At the outset of the process to merge the American Le Mans Series presented by Tequila Patrón and the Grand - Am Rolex Sports Car Series, we established a goal of providing substantial opportunities for our existing marketing partners, and especially so with our title partners,» said IMSA President and Chief Operating Officer, Scott Atherton.