Sentences with phrase «weaker profit growth»

Retail Food Group is facing its weakest profit growth in five years as intense competition in Australia counters international growth.

Retail Food Group is facing its weakest profit growth in five years as intense competition in fast food and coffee retailing in Australia counters international growth.

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Profit margins and earnings growth have remained at record levels, despite weak global growth and a number of other macro threats.

The top three US equity benchmarks closed mixed with the Dow slipping as IBM plunged 7.5 per cent after it reported narrower profit margins in the first quarter and no revenue growth unless one factors in help from a weak US dollar.

The brand has been hurt by weak demand in the United States, its biggest market, and from competition from better - positioned rivals Nike and Adidas, which cut into Under Armour's profit and growth.

From July 2016 to the end of second - quarter 2017, more than 80 percent of the companies listed in the S&P 500 declared dividends, as stable oil prices, low wage growth and a weaker US currency have all added to the overall corporate profits.

Weak industrial profits in China and the International Monetary potentially lowering its growth forecast.

The profits recovery has been driven by continued strong productivity growth in conjunction with subdued compensation growth (due to the weak labour market), which has seen unit labour costs fall by 5 per cent since June 2001 — the largest fall on record (Graph A4).

Despite weak same - store sales growth, the company's strategy of refranchising and cutting costs along with falling food prices have lifted profits.

Even without deflation, very low inflation can be a sign of weak demand that weighs on wages, corporate profits and growth.

Natural by - products of slower potential growth are not only weaker corporate profits and dividends, but also a lower average rate of return on investments.

Issues of ecological justice, and justice to the weaker sections of society and specifically development of social institutions can not be taken up by the economy directed only by the market - profit mechanism in which the social objectives of the peoples are destroyed for the sake of economic growth.

The weakness in Australian beverages offset profit growth in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, where cost cuts countered weaker volumes.

The bellwether S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average were essentially flat, and major foreign indexes were all down (some sharply) during the same period, after a volatile year marked by weak global economic growth, slumping U.S. corporate profits and uncertainty about the outlook for the China and the European union.

Strong global economic growth and a weaker dollar are boons for large multinationals, which derive more of their profits overseas.

Without increases in real wages or asset prices to drive consumer spending growth, and business profits damped by high input prices, the only bright spot I can envisage will be the US export sector, which benefits from a weak US dollar.

why the emerging markets (EM) have been so weak over the past few years and the implications of anemic growth in the EM, both in terms of economic output and corporate profits