Sentences with phrase «already weak demand»

Amid today's already weak demand, companies are exacerbating the problem by cutting investments and increasing dividends and stock buybacks.

Retailers there continued to report that the presidential elections had weighed on sales, exacerbating already weak demand.

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Oil prices will probably fall in the second half of 2015 as the ongoing production surplus and weak demand overcome the sentiment - based belief that a price recovery is already underway.

China, however, is already challenging Europe as running the highest current account surplus in history, and in a world in which demand is likely to remain weak for many years, the external sector is unlikely to provide sufficient additional demand.

Weak or falling domestic demand and trade growth, an appreciating U.S. dollar and slumping commodity prices have already taken a toll.

That would come as bad news to a global oil market that is already seeing suddenly weak demand.

The combined effects of the appreciation of the dollar and weaker external demand have already seen a sharp increase in the trade deficit, with both a rapid rise in imports and a fall in exports.

Weak demand conditions in turn have contributed to declines in inflation from already - low levels.

Various studies in the 1970s and 80s described the limits of higher levels of authority in the governance structure for education, and the relatively weak impact of state policy on student outcomes.294 But loose coupling does not mean that no influence flows from superordinate entities.295 Even as schools are busy developing their own policies and initiatives, they pay attention to demands from «outside the system» when those demands are consistent with the directions in which their organizations are already moving.296

The effect of this return to customary seasonal conditions on our utilization in these already historically slow periods was exacerbated by particularly weak demand for our services in the first half of 2010, resulting in a 27 % decrease in vessel utilization across the entire fleet for the first half of 2010 as compared to the same period of 2009.

This could see the world's No 3 oil consumer cutting use further just as weak global demand and ample supply are already pushing the international Brent benchmark to multi-year lows.