Sentences with phrase «slow demand»

New technology, such as robotic equipment, increases the efficiency of workers while slowing the demand for new employees.

A further sign of slowing demand in the housing market since late 2003 is evident in the fall in auction clearance rates across the capital cities.

While sales are poised to rise as the economy improves, higher mortgage rates and aggressive builder price increases slowed demand in the second half of 2013, he said.

Likewise, unless clean energy supplies come online in large measures, slowing demand growth will not reduce total emissions to needed levels.

-- Higher prices slow demand, and reduce employment within the construction industry and suppliers.

Coal's importance as an energy source has diminished amid cheap natural gas prices and slowing demand abroad.

If rising rates slow demand for housing, home values will be impacted.

The Fuji Xerox joint venture, 75 percent owned by Fujifilm and 25 percent by Xerox, has struggled with slow demand for office photocopying products.

The dramatic plunge in the prices of oil and industrial commodities as a result of slowing demand from China together with increased supply from the United States, decimated energy and materials companies» profits.

Maserati has been hurt by slowing demand in the U.S. and China, its two largest markets.

But that was more a reflection of the crisis in Europe slowing demand for Chinese exports than a crisis in the currency.

The stock jump follows some mea culpas from analysts who were were too pessimistic, misled by reports from Apple suppliers that implied slowing demand for iPhones.

While slow demand for the iPhone 5c has been a drag on Jabil's performance, the product pipeline of Apple could once again provide a boost to the DMS business.

But the somewhat slow demand for the precious metal was offset by declines in gold - backed ETFs, which slid more than 68 percent to 109 tons year - over-year, and central - bank purchases dropped close to 27 percent concurrently.

It later emerged slowing demand in China and a failure to quickly halt the production of excess infant formula had left the company with just $ 1 million in cash and reliant on the grace of its bankers to fund working capital.

Beijing's plans to tackle pollution largely target coal - fired power, which will hit already slowing demand in the world's top importer of the fuel.

That's not just because of the economic crisis slowing demand, remaining unexplored oil reservoirs are in deep waters offshore

Even that didn't slow demand or supply.

Audi, facing slow demand for the R8, doesn't see the need for a third sports car to be positioned between the next TT and its mid-engine flagship.

Recent changes to mortgage legislature has effectively slowed demand in both markets; Vancouver's market posted a 10 - year low in sales, while Toronto's numbers were down 21 percent in the second quarter from one quarter earlier (source: Urbanation Inc.).

Australians backed away ever so slightly last year from buying media tablets, with slowing demand mainly due to «saturation» in the iPad and Android tablet market, according to a newly published research study.

«As we enter the traditionally slower demand season in the home purchase market, persistent supply constraints may keep home prices elevated,» Banfield says.

New York, 22 September 2014 — New research by the Carbon Tracker Initiative (CTI) today identifies major financial risks for investors in coal producers around the world, from the domino effect of slowing demand growth in China, where thermal coal demand could peak as early as 2016.

ArcelorMittal (MT) led the fallers in the French market, down 5.17 % on fears of slowing demand for its steel products.

Led by a steep slide in energy prices over the last 12 months, the prices of a wide range of global commodities — everything from iron ore to sugar — has been falling lately, in part, due to slower demand from once red - hot developing economies...

That offset slowing exports caused by slowing demand, particularly in China.

Other major U.S. food makers, such as Campbell Soup (CPB) and Kellogg (K), have closed factories in recent years as they struggle to deal with slower demand for processed and packaged foods, The Wall Street Journal said.

The federal government's mortgage - tightening efforts will cool the market further, and borrowing costs will rise at some point, slowing demand in a country where the average household debt is already more than 150 % of income.

Lenovo continues to suffer from slowing demand for Android slate tablets.

According to Breaking Travel News, Giuseppe Bono, chief executive of Fincantieri, said, «These additional orders bring the total number of ships we have built for Carnival Corporation to 61 and confirm Fincantieri's world leadership in the cruise ship sector even at a time of slowing demand.»

If true, that could slow demand for building trades like electrical contractors — but a looming wave of retirements also promise future opportunity.

«If they had introduced clones a year earlier, it could have been checkmate on us,» says Bouton, citing the slower demand back then and the company's trouble filling orders.

Oil prices were pulled down in early trading on Thursday as OPEC warned of slowing demand.

HP believes that by entering the copier market, it will have a better chance to offset the slowing demand for its traditional businesses.

The stock soared 24 percent on Thursday, rebounding after having lost more than half its value in less than five months on fears of slowing demand.

Oil prices have fallen by almost 25 per cent since June in response to oversupply, slower demand growth for oil, and OPEC politics.

LONDON (Reuters)- The threat of slowing demand and new competition in GlaxoSmithKline's flagship HIV drug business unnerved investors in Britain's biggest drugmaker on Wednesday, sending its shares down as much as 1.8 percent.

Apple's sales growth last quarter was the slowest in more than two years, and Samsung in January warned of slowing demand.

Central banks take real rates into restrictive territory, slowing demand and causing defaults.

Fed tightenings are not intended to slow economic growth, but to slow demand growth when capacity constraints are too binding to allow growth in supply.

Fitch says that the slowing demand will be felt most in the high - and medium - end sector, where buyers for investment or upgrading can typically postpone a purchase.

But controlling inflation has always involved being prepared to slow demand, for a while, when needed.

While the USDA projects dairy prices to increase throughout the rest of the year, many factors including low world market prices, increased milk supplies and inventories, and slower demand have contributed to the sluggish marketplace for dairy producers.

Rolling back environmental regulations will not lead to a significant resurgence of the coal industry because those regulations played only a minor role relative to slowing demand for electricity and a surge in cheaper, cleaner sources of energy.

«Slowing population growth does not solve all the problems but it makes it easier by slowing demands,» Cohen said.

Instead, Wolak said, slowing demand for fossil fuels is the step that would address the root of climate change.