It's a competitive market and that competition is good for consumers," Ms Osmond said. "There is no evidence that competition in the fuel market is decreasing due to the growth in the market share of independent retailers." She said fuel discount …

Beginning his speech, Dr Cable opened with an explanation of competitiveness, adding it was about competitive wage costs in the Eurozone. However, this issue was not being debated in the UK despite the “biggest devaluation since the Second World War …

Also, a comparatively weak rupee will make Indian produce more competitive in global markets and this by itself should, over time, help to reduce imports and increase exports," said Gordon. The online Ipsos survey was conducted in July 2013 among 18 …

Current global pressure on emerging markets is felt most acutely in China. In the comparable late 1990s, the Asian crisis largely passed China by. Its hefty devaluation in 1994 had left it highly competitive. The latest upswing of US interest rates …

They viewed the Fed's open-ended purchases of long-term securities as an attempt to engineer a competitive devaluation of the dollar and worried that ultra-easy monetary conditions in the United States would unleash a flood of “hot money” inflows …

It also advantages retailers like Amazon and Barnes & Noble, which sell both print and ebook versions of the same book, at the expense of digital-only competitors like Apple and Kobo. Publishers may well fear the devaluation of their content, but …

Japan, which is undergoing a well-publicized yen devaluation, saw currency-neutral sales rise 17%, but reported sales declined 8%. We note that some other luxury companies, such as Tiffany, also saw jumps in currencyneutral … Taken together, as we …

Uptake of medicines in the short-term is further risked by currency depreciation and hyperinflation of local medicine prices. We believe the medicines market will contract in 2013, … Forecast broadly in line with previous quarter following confirmed …

Deeper cuts in Iran's oil sales, if accomplished, could worsen the damage Western sanctions have already done to Iran's economy, which suffered a loss of about $26 billion in petroleum revenue in 2012 from a total of $95 billion in 2011; soaring …