The successful creation of industrywide networking standards was expected to allow these firms to dominate a particular market niche and, thus, to reap a considerable reward in earnings. Demand for high-tech equipment and fiber optics expanded rapidly, but in some segments of the market available supply appears to have increased even faster.
These are supply-side factors which can be impacted by monetary policy measures only slightly or not at all. The NBS cannot reduce the global price of oil or other energy products, nor can it impact the prices of all those agricultural products that are traded in commodity exchanges.