Sentences with phrase «firms remain under pressure»

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Shares in engineering firm Monadelphous Group fell sharply today after it posted a 27 per cent slide in profit on the back of lower activity in the resources and energy sectors and predicted contracting margins would remain under pressure.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg remained calm under pressure during five hours of questioning by U.S. senators about a series of recent crises culminating with the latest involving Cambridge Analytica, a political consulting firm that gained access to data about up to 87 million Facebook users.

Furthermore, at a time when tender prices and profitability remain under extreme pressure, persistently high materials price inflation is making operating conditions extremely challenging for firms operating throughout the construction industry.

As Alex Novarese of Legal Week is right to point out, overall revenue in the UK legal market last year fell for the first time in living memory, but even if the overall size of the legal market in the UK remains static or falls (a tussle between the opposing forces of economic growth increasing demand on the one hand and business pressures to reduce fees and outsource on the other), market dynamics dictate that the revenue will be clustered differently, with the moderate - high fees currently enjoyed by the mid-tier for mid-market work under the most severe attack, the beneficiaries being niche firms and LPO providers.