Analysts warn other banks are also struggling because of unpaid home loans and a sluggish economy.
The problem with raising rates in a sluggish economy is that rate hikes are detrimental to growth.
But recession, a sluggish economy and the deficit reduction measures may have damaged the Tories' prospects this May.
So a sluggish economy in the wake of domestic problems and whatever else is happening in the eurozone.
Because of that Bernanke is not likely to hint at new policy action to jolt a sluggish economy, he said.
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Consumer spending growth has been reduced to a trickle as a sluggish economy has caused people to be cautious shoppers.
Lifeline is expanding as a sluggish economy and rising cellular costs leave millions unable to pay for traditional wireless services.
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Airlines, facing bankruptcy and a sluggish economy, have been slow to implement the upgrades needed, both to the planes and ground equipment and training.
One reason it's even less likely now in Europe: a sluggish economy.
The Fed has had two quantitative easing programs, with the last one initiated in the fourth quarter of 2010 to revive a sluggish economy.
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In a sluggish economy, smaller firms are less likely to take a chance on recent grads, says Penelope Bryan, dean of Whittier Law School in Orange County, Calif.
Whatever the case, the primary focus of the next Congress will be to put people back to work in a sluggish economy that is allegedly already in recovery mode.
But in a sluggish economy, like what we've experienced for the better part of a decade, consumers choose cheaper alternatives they forgo the Cadillac for the Buick or public transportation, for example.
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This injection of capital would bolster the banks so that they can lend again, addressing the purported credit crunch on which many Japanese now blame a sluggish economy (see article).
The remaining divisions were however affected by a sluggish economy and weak seasonality, which caused sales of consumer appliances as well as demand for display panels to decline in the developed markets.
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The slowing of the rate of health care cost increases comes amid a sluggish economy and a period of high unemployment that has made it easier for companies to reduce benefits of their workers.
Those opposed to the latest round of tax-cut proposals complain that they are unfairly skewed in favour of the rich and are in any case unlikely to be effective in kick-starting a sluggish economy.
Ms. Wisniewski, a Michigan native who graduated from Pepperdine University last year and moved to New York for a job as an editor at a jewelry-industry magazine, has found it tough to move on in a sluggish economy.
And obviously this has added economic and financial costs due to the influx, and has further strained the economy that is already under considerable external pressures with an unstable region, a sluggish global economy that is still recovering.
But unlike three years ago, this slump reflects more than a sluggish global economy.
These answers will be contingent upon how well America competes in a sluggish global economy awash in government debt.
If you wanted less inflation, the price was a more sluggish economy.
Carnival has stepped up efforts to rein in costs as it struggles with commodities costs and a sluggish global economy weighs on consumer confidence.
Japan's new Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has called upon the central bank to ease its policies and boost stimulus measures to help revive a sluggish Japanese economy.
That represents a decline from a year ago, which is hardly uncommon in the current earnings cycle as a sluggish global economy has made top-line growth challenging.
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Sales, while strong at KRW 5.3 trillion (USD 4.7 billion), declined by 6.8 percent compared with the first-quarter of 2011, largely due to the a sluggish European economy.
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Most technology companies have a usual problem: not enough demand for their products, especially in a sluggish world market economy.
The company said that while the sale of new products was impressive, sales of its older products were soft as a result of the sluggish economy.
Sao Paulo, Brazil (CNN) -- Brazil's economy grew a sluggish 2.7% in 2011, the government statistics agency IBGE reported Tuesday, far below its target of 4.5%.
France blames a strong euro for its sluggish economy.
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