Sentences with phrase «hot during the boom»

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A BOOMING business selling hot pies and other ready - to - go meals to petrol station and convenience stores was not enough to counter a shift by supermarket shoppers to lower - priced packaged desserts, reducing margins for Patties Foods during the half and cutting interim profit by 16.5 per cent.

Though development was temporarily halted during the Civil War (1861 - 1865), the beachfront location quickly became a popular place to escape the hot, humid city summers and boomed with hotels, saloons, clam shacks, bathhouses, and entertainment for people of all types and ages.

That approach loads you up on sectors and stocks that are hot, like Nortel and Blackberry during their heydays, or resource stocks during the commodity boom.

One, they attracted hot money from those who chase trends during the times where lending policies were easier, and the markets were booming.

Markets that experienced the hottest sales during the boom years — think fast - growth metro areas in California and Florida along with Washington, D.C. — are now facing the largest corrections.

In markets that were hot during the housing boom, buyers are moving forward on their purchasing plans and not letting negative media coverage about market slowdowns dictate their decisions.