Sentences with phrase «by weak consumer spending»
Korea remains the exception, adversely affected by weak consumer spending, which has been weighed down by excessive household debt.
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Paul Ferley, assistant chief economist at RBC, expects positive results for consumer spending in the quarter overall (up an annualized 2.8 % in Q2 from a weaker Q1), but noted that retailers are still dealing with modest levels of spending by households.
Persistently high unemployment and weak pay growth have kept spending by consumers weak.
A better - than - expected reading on GDP was accompanied by the weakest performance in consumer spending in nearly five years.
Still, in an economy where low and middle class consumers are bogged down by weak job growth and stagnating wages, better to have the rich spending than nobody at all.
The Australian market is the largest and most stable market of Australian beef and lamb, though it was impacted by weaker consumer confidence and spending on meat in 2011.
Without increases in real wages or asset prices to drive consumer spending growth, and business profits damped by high input prices, the only bright spot I can envisage will be the US export sector, which benefits from a weak US dollar.
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Real estate investors surveyed by PwC US for its second quarter 2012 report expect that weak consumer spending and large vacancy overhang will continue to hamper recovery in the retail sector...