Sentences with phrase «usual peak period»

Our correspondent who visited the area saw most of the traders who grouped in clusters wearing long faces as they could not ply their trade at the usual peak period when huge sales are being made.

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As usual, I don't place too much emphasis on this sort of forecast, but to the extent that I make any comments at all about the outlook for 2006, the bottom line is this: 1) we can't rule out modest potential for stock appreciation, which would require the maintenance or expansion of already high price / peak earnings multiples; 2) we also should recognize an uncomfortably large potential for market losses, particularly given that the current bull market has now outlived the median and average bull, yet at higher valuations than most bulls have achieved, a flat yield curve with rising interest rate pressures, an extended period of internal divergence as measured by breadth and other market action, and complacency at best and excessive bullishness at worst, as measured by various sentiment indicators; 3) there is a moderate but still not compelling risk of an oncoming recession, which would become more of a factor if we observe a substantial widening of credit spreads and weakness in the ISM Purchasing Managers Index in the months ahead, and; 4) there remains substantial potential for U.S. dollar weakness coupled with «unexpectedly» persistent inflation pressures, particularly if we do observe economic weakness.

The AA has reported its busiest festive period in ten years and a peak figure of 4,000 breakdowns an hour on UK roads between midnight and 8.00 am on Monday January 4 — quadruple the usual hourly rate.

The G - 77 ′ s position is that emissions from developed countries are already projected to peak in the next 10 years, so a global emissions peak in the same time period means the burden falls to developing countries, while for developed countries it'd be business as usual.

As I pointed out here, CAGR for CO2 emissions from coal, oil, natural gas, flaring, and cement production averaged 3.08 % for the period 2000 - 2010, peaking to 6 % in 2003 over 2002 (though there was no hysteria that time) and again in 2010 over 2009 (much unwarranted hysteria about a single year, even by professionals but perhaps overblown by the media as usual who may have been selective about who they quoted!).