Sentences with phrase «of weak market»

Rock - bottom consumer confidence is a big part of the weak market but the hurdles to borrowers imposed by lenders through stringent underwriting requirements are a major issue, too.

Most of the businesses go down soon after their launch because of their weak marketing strategies.

Not exact matches

But there was cause for caution too: Disappointing British manufacturing and consumer lending figures added to Europe's recent run of poor data, worries about Iran's nuclear deal simmered in oil markets, and Wall Street was waiting for Apple's results following recent whispers of weak iPhone demand.

Still, we're in the fifth year of a very weak recovery in which small businesses have been hit hard by tight credit markets, slow sales and limited spending.

Harley, which commands about half of the U.S. big - bike market, has seen its U.S. market share erode in recent years as it grapples with an ageing customer base, weak demand from younger buyers and discounts offered by rivals.

* Apple results in focus after reports of weak iPhone demand (Updates with closing U.S. market levels)

Perth - based Automotive Holdings Group will incur a $ 35 million write - down hit from the closure of some of its underperforming businesses, in response to the weak market for car retailers combined with recent regulatory changes by the corporate watchdog.

That's important because the majority of exporters are small, and as the economy experiences sluggish growth and weak job gains, they are generally seen as a bright spot for their reach beyond domestic markets.

«Foreign work experience is largely discounted by Canadian employers when the immigrant first enters the Canadian labour market, and it is a weak predictor of economic success,» the analysis said.

The plan would not begin until 2017, perhaps to avoid concerns of placing additional payroll taxes on firms during a relatively weak labour market.

«You're going out of a weak business in terms of financials and... entering a market with strong growth and higher margins.

While the labor market has returned to more normal levels, with the unemployment rate at around 5.1 percent, overall hiring has remained weak, per the most recent Department of Labor jobs reports.

Abe's push for more aggressive action has weighed on the yen and bolstered the stock market as investors anticipate a weaker currency will bolster earnings of the country's exporters.

In currency markets, the euro held at two - year highs following remarks by ECB President Mario Draghi last week, while the dollar remained weak ahead of the U.S. Federal Reserve's policy meeting later in the week.

«Because we are in the hospitality and recreation business, which is largely dependent on discretionary spending,» the company's latest financial report explains, «we believe that the weak housing market, increases in unemployment, decreases in air flights to Las Vegas, decreases in the value of stock and other investments, and the general tightening of spending on business travel have all affected visitations to Las Vegas and the spending budget of our customers.»

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.

Hannah Anderson of J.P. Morgan Asset Management says the near - term focus is on oil prices ahead of an important meeting in June on OPEC - led oil curbs, but the weak dollar is the longer - term variable for markets.

The market still expects the Bank of England to hike rates even as recent data pointed weaker, says Kathy Lien of BK Asset Management.

Much of the generation delayed marriage, childbearing and home ownership after graduating with heaping student - loan debt and entering a weak job market.

A report from CIBC World Markets recently predicted the stock market might fall 10 % — 15 % this summer due to a confluence of factors, including a weak U.S. housing market, increasing fiscal strain, expensive oil prices, sluggish corporate earnings growth and disruptions in global supply chains stemming from the Japanese crisis.

Paladin Energy has announced more cuts to its board and head office staffing, with long - serving executive Gillian Swaby following managing director John Borshoff out of the business as it works to stay afloat in the weak uranium market.

RCR Tomlinson has lifted its annual dividend after delivering solid results in a weak market, with the engineering and construction contractor posting a net profit of $ 39.1 million for the financial year.

Western Australia's regional rental market was the weakest performer in the country in the last three months of 2015, with the Pilbara area taking a large share of the blame.

«The idea here is that Okta's cloud - based platform is taking tons of market share from existing authentication platforms,» Cramer said, noting that some 81 percent of data breaches involve stolen or weak credentials.

Britain's housing market continued to lose momentum data showed too, with mortgage approvals at their weakest in nearly three years following the Bank of England's first interest rate hike in a decade.

Shares in AMS, which provides the facial recognition technology used in Apple's iPhones, jumped 7 percent after Apple surprised the market with solid iPhone X sales, confounding fears of a much weaker performance.

And demographic changes that affect the age distribution of the population could mask the real state of the job market, too: «if the population is aging, a greater percentage of the population may hit retirement age and willingly retire, which doesn't imply a weaker job market,» CEPR's Evan Butcher and Nicholas Buffie wrote in a blog post this week.

A case in point: Beauty products, which generate about 15 % of department store visits, became a chronically weak spot for Macy's about five years ago, as it ceded market share to the likes of Ulta and Sephora.

You can not improve your email marketing efforts if you are not aware of the weak points that you need to work on.

Riding a string of disappointing quarters amid weak global demand, Potash Corp. needs to increase its sales in growth markets, particularly India and China.

While the market was supported by strong sales of existing units in the quarter, new properties remained weak.

Elsewhere, broadcaster Sky reported an 11 percent drop in adjusted operating profit in the first nine months of its fiscal year, due to additional costs with the English Premier League and a weaker advertising market.

As stronger railroads bought up weaker companies and divided up markets with the remaining competitors, the dangers of monopoly became more and more apparent.

Weak pricing was the biggest reason that Cenovus missed on most forecasts, said analyst Travis Wood of National Bank Financial Markets.

COPENHAGEN, Jan 16 - Jewelry maker Pandora, known for its silver charm bracelets, plans to double new product launches by 2022 to rectify a recent lack of innovation and weak growth in key markets, its chief executive told investors on Tuesday.

«It's the weaker dollar, it's the inflation focus and it's also to some extent the market is continuing to look for a hedge against a world that's becoming incredibly complacent with stocks at record highs,» said Ole Hansen, head of commodity strategy at Saxo Bank in Copenhagen.

It's probably also relevant to explain the change of heart to note that high - end watch sales overall have been weak of late, particularly in gadget - obsessed Asian markets.

The disappointing trends of the Great Recession and its aftermath come on the heels of the weak labor market from 2000 - 2007, during which the median income of non-elderly households fell significantly from $ 68,941 to $ 66,575, the first time in the post-war period that incomes failed to grow over a business cycle.

COPENHAGEN, Jan 16 - Jewellery maker Pandora, known for its silver charm bracelets, plans to double new product launches by 2022 to rectify a recent lack of innovation and weak growth in key markets, its chief executive told investors on Tuesday.

Weaker - than - expected US economic data has also contributed to dollar depreciation, especially when compared to Europe and parts of emerging markets, says Morgan Stanley.

It adds to the recent spate of weaker data coming out of the eurozone and really underlines the fact that the ECB can afford to be a little bit patient in terms of ramping up its hawkish rhetoric when it comes to its QE policy, said Bipan Rai, director of foreign exchange strategy at CIBC Capital Markets in Toronto.

If my capital market expectations are for a good bond market and a weak stock market in the next year (such as this year), I don't necessarily want to change any of the stocks or bonds that I hold.

The new rules combined with the Italian banking system's structural flows and weak markets globally could test the government's credibility rapidly, especially if a number of banks fail and Italians start pulling their money out in a move of panic.

At the moment, there's a little bit of support from weak equity markets, but we see further weakness coming through,» Daniel Hynes, senior commodity strategist at ANZ, told CNBC.

According to McKinsey, it's not that today's market is abnormally weak — but because the period between 1985 and 2014 was simply a «golden era» of investing in which returns exceeded the 100 - year average.

«In the presence of uncertainty and the absence of accelerating inflationary pressures, it would be unwise for policy to foreclose on the possibility of making further gains in the labor market,» she said, adding that «disinflation pressure and weak demand from abroad will likely weigh on the U.S. outlook for some time, and fragility in global markets could again pose risks here at home.»

Emerging markets went sailing higher with stocks enjoying their biggest daily gains in nearly four weeks though another day of weaker oil prices took a toll on Russia again, where the rouble was down another half a percent.

US - based gold miner Newmont Mining is slashing its corporate workforce by a third after writing down the value of its Western Australian mines by $ US1.5 billion, amid weak conditions in international gold and copper markets.

«Bond king» Jeffrey Gundlach told CNBC on Monday that investors should be defensive, especially in the midst of a «weak bond market» and a «broadly sideways» stock market.

While a weaker currency certainly benefits Chinese exporters, it is unlikely that the central planners would want a weaker currency at the expense of their own stock market.