Sentence examples for markets widened from inspiring English sources

Measured by an index created at the OECD, the gap between the most and least liberal services markets widened in the 1980s and into the 1990s.

At one stage, the difference in the price at which the UK and Germany borrow in the City's money markets widened to the highest level in 12 years.

On Wednesday the interest rates that Greece, Portugal and Spain would have to offer to raise new money on bond markets widened.

Why? Internet markets widen the choices available to buyers, give sellers access to many more customers, and slash transaction costs for all players.

A free-market society would put us at the mercy of the impersonal, capricious forces of the financial markets, widen inequalities under-invest in the long term and the public goods on which we all rely.

Regional integration remains the key strategy that will enable African governments to accelerate the transformation of their fragmented small economies, expand their markets, widen the region's economic space, and reap the benefits of economies of scale for production and trade, thereby maximizing the welfare of their nations.

No financial institution has escaped damage from the turmoil that rocked the credit markets in July and August as problems in the subprime mortgage market widened.

Like computers before them, prices of small satellites could be expected to tumble and performance to rise remorselessly as the market widened from government agencies to include companies and universities, and then wider still to include small communities and co-operatives, and finally to embrace even wealthy individuals.

The clash highlights the type of conflicts that are likely to intensify as government intervention in the mortgage market widens.

Andy Haldane, the bank's chief economist, said automation posed a risk to almost half those employed in the UK and that a "third machine age" would hollow out the labour market, widening the gap between rich and poor.

The saber-rattling highlights the conflicting interests of various players in the mortgage arena and suggests that tensions are likely to intensify as government intervention in the market widens.