Sentences with phrase «cited weak market»
In the Conference Board's Index of Business Confidence survey, business leaders cited weak market demand, government policies, a shortage of qualified staff, and the depreciation of the Canadian dollar (which increases the cost of imported technology and machinery) as reasons for not investing.
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With fourth - quarter sales of condensed and ready - to - serve soups down 7 %, prominent Wall Street firm Janney Montgomery Scott recently downgraded its rating on the company's stock, citing a weak packaged - soup market.
Citing persistent weak labor - market conditions and continued global financial turmoil, the Fed says its monetary easing «should put downward pressure on longer - term interest rates, support mortgage markets and help to make broader financial conditions more accommodative.»
«It appears that four inter-linked phenomena are driving a negative feedback loop in the global economy and across financial markets,» the analysts write, citing the resilient US dollar, lower commodities prices, weaker trade and capital flows, and declining emerging market growth.
Two UK milk processors have announced milk price cuts for June citing strong supplies and weak dairy markets.
He cited the weak yen, euro and intensifying competition in the U.S. where rival companies engage in aggressive marketing drives.
In a statement to the Wall Street Journal, the president of Sprintâ $ ™ s business markets group Paget Alves has confirmed that the carrier will not release the initially planned 4G WiMax version of the RIM PlayBook, citing weak demand from business customers.
The article cites comments by columnist Mark Hulbert, who refers to valuation metrics such as P / E, price - book, price - sales and price - dividend ratios as weak indicators of market tops but adds that we ignore them «at our peril, since it's also true that almost all bull market tops in history... Read More
Latest research by the REC shows that the new regulations have caused only limited problems for businesses which regularly use agency workers, and only 4 % of those surveyed attributed any reduction in their use of temporary agency staff directly to the regulations themselves; citing other market reasons for reducing their use of agency workers including continued economic uncertainty and weak growth.
Among the few soft or weak markets cited by the report were Buffalo, N.Y.; Louisville, Ky.; Philadelphia, Pa.; Rochester, N.Y., San Jose, Calif.; and Syracuse, N.Y.