Alternatively, in markets where brands are quite dissimilar, sales promotions can alter market shares more permanently.
But Mr. Peruzzo said he did not expect the vote to fundamentally alter market perception of the crisis.
"It's a mistake to believe that their entrance will dramatically alter market share in the short term," Mr. Kapor said.
Japan's core private-sector machinery orders fell more than expected in June, signaling a slowdown in corporate capital spending ahead, but did little to alter market players' views that the Bank of Japan would raise rates this month.
The April jobs report, due Friday, is being awaited with all the trepidation due the arrival of the most important monthly economic statistic: a swing of 100,000 either way would alter market expectations of when the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates.
Will this study alter marketing practices or how the media reports TV ratings?
Weaker results show that an increase in the mean of a characteristic's distribution does not alter market responses to differences in it.
The decision fits into the firm's strategy to alter marketing for its car and truck stable, the automaker told the Detroit News.
But that does little to alter market perceptions that both companies are now in play, with Brazil's Companhia Vale do Rio Doce and Chinalco, recently spurned by Rio Tinto, likely to look hard at both.
The practice of companies' stashing money offshore to avoid taxes doesn't just alter market calculations or cost the U.S. Treasury.
