Sentences with phrase «very flat growth»

The Australian retail sector as a whole experienced very flat growth across 2010 — 14, before picking up, as bookstores did, in 2015.

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Achievement of these goals was considered by the HRC as very challenging, even aggressive, given the expected modest economic growth for 2007 for the financial services industry, the impact and duration of the on - going flat / inverted yield curve (meaning short - term interest rates that are virtually equal to or exceed long - term interest rates, thus lowering profit margins for financial services companies that borrow cash at short - term rates and lend at long - term rates), potentially higher credit losses, fewer available high - quality, high - yielding loans and investment opportunities, and a consumer shift from non-interest to interest - bearing deposits.

Indeed, in volume terms, headline imports of goods and services appear to have remained flat in the June quarter, following very strong growth in the March quarter.

Hi, I am in my 3rd pregnancy, with my first I was having growth scans from 20 weeks as I still had a flat belly, she was born at 36wks weighing 4 lb 4 oz but very healthy!

At the end of those five years, NIH was held totally flat without even inflationary increases and the result is that most of the money that the NIH receives each year, the vast majority has been committed to grantees who got their awards at the time of growth and now there is very little money left to pay the inflationary increases to avoid [afford] new grants.