Sentences with phrase «overall demand remains»

While overall demand remains high, it is not translating to meaningful sales gains.

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But the overall impact is uneven with demand for top end property worth more than $ 30 million remaining strong while sellers are heavily discounting small inner - city apartments in high density zones.

The overall strength in demand for credit, combined with the fact that interest rates remain slightly lower than the average of recent years, continues to suggest that the current policy setting is not inhibiting the growth of the economy.

But overall demand growth has remained quite strong, boosted to some extent by temporary pre-GST spending, and by public - sector expenditure which, at least as recorded in the national accounts, has also expanded quite quickly.

«Small business optimism and overall confidence in the economy remains high, largely due to an increase in sales and revenues, which suggest demand is strong,» said Mark Vitner, Wells Fargo managing director and senior economist.

While overall wage costs remain contained at present, despite pressures in particular sectors, ongoing strength in demand would pose an increasing risk of acceleration of costs over time.

Inflation in the non-traded sector of the economy remains relatively high, at over 4 per cent, reflecting the overall strength of the domestic economy, strong demand conditions in the housing sector and continuing cost pressures in some service industries.

Yet, the number of firms judging that such shortages are limiting their ability to meet demand is unchanged and remains modest overall (Chart 6, blue bars).

Although they remain weak overall, whole milk powder prices have shown modest but steady improvement since February, primarily due to improved import demand from China.

Demand for whey - derived functional food and drinks claiming nutritional benefits remains undimmed despite an overall fall in sales last year for the dairy commodity, says an industry analyst.

The United Nations» food agency has singled out burgeoning demand in Asia as contributing to the overall international price increase of dairy products, but remains confident that prices will begin to stabilise in 2005, Tom Armitage...

The overall demand for sweet potatoes, however, remains strong and is growing across the country.

The role demands a performance where the overall effect of the performance remains even in scenes where her character is not present, and Collette delivers.

Overall, we expect production volume to remain relatively flat due to increased export output, increased capacity for previously imported vehicles and new vehicles and because the industry will not be cutting production as much just to get inventory in line with demand.

The E-Ink NOOK models virtually demand comparison with Kindle, and for refinement and overall ease of use, Kindle remains the clear winner.

Similarly, while some fuel - importing nations may see an overall benefit in terms of their trade deficits, there are plenty of oil producing countries who will lose out as demand falls and oil prices remain depressed.

«The overall share of fossil fuels in global energy demand in 2017 remained at 81 %, a level that has remained stable for more than three decades despite strong growth in renewables.»

While many challenges remain, it is difficult not to be optimistic about the potential for change that has been opened by decarbonisation, decentralisation and digitalisation in an overall context of electrification of final demand as outlined in the latest energy scenarios published by the Council.

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.

«On the contrary, their number at times increases in occupations that have been partly automated, because overall demand for their remaining activities has continued to grow.»

Overall, demand for beer in Canada remained low in 2012 as the shift towards other alcoholic beverages continued, including wine (especially amongst the growing number of older consumers) and various spirits areas, many of which are undergoing significant product development and marketing activity.

While challenges remain, particularly in the political and regulatory realms, the overall consensus is that there is strong demand for new strategies and ideas.»

The company said on an earnings call Thursday that demand from cryptocurrency miners for its product beat expectations but that overall, that market segment remains a small one.

The skills they are looking for are simply not available in sufficient quantity to meet the industry demand and that is now starting to push up salaries in a number of markets, even when overall wage inflation remains very low.

Despite the softening due to the new development focus on Class A apartments, the overall fundamentals for apartments remain stable, indicated by the strong demand for Class B and C properties.»

«Consumers should be aware that the overall supply of homes for sale remains very low, and pent - up demand is leading to large jumps in price acceleration,» says Smoke.

«The December new construction report shows home - building is inching along with permits up slightly, starts slipping and housing completions up, but construction overall remains woefully behind the levels necessary to quench buyer demand,» says Joseph Kirchner, senior economist for realtor.com ®.

Class - A logistics space will remain in strong demand in the future, as its primary driver, international trade, continues to grow at a multiple of the overall economy, according to new research from brokerage firm Grubb & Ellis.

Apartment demand in Florida metros should remain healthy overall, though there is little room for occupancy to improve further for most metros.

Overall demand, though, remains skewed in favor of rental housing, he adds.

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Overall demand and the availability of equity capital remain strong, but many owners are pulling back on activity, according to NMHC's latest quarterly survey.