Mercedes-Benz and Audi notched sales gains exceeding 35% last year, easily outpacing a sluggish market there.
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Most technology companies have a usual problem: not enough demand for their products, especially in a sluggish world market economy.
Corporate development teams are increasingly looking outside of their organization to help keep up with marketplace demands and avoid the loss of market share that can happen with a sluggish or even delayed time to market.
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Sure, the U.S. consumer market turned a bit sluggish the second half of last year, and that continues.
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But wage growth has been sluggish, implying a soft jobs market.
But the next-generation discs will still play a key role in restarting growth in the sluggish U.S. home-video market, research firm SNL Kagan says in a new report.
"We hope that Bozize will fulfil our aspirations and improve the country's sluggish economy, " Kadija Ba, a market vendor, said.
Santander, meanwhile, sees Mexico as a key market for growth while business at home is sluggish.
Although the American market is sluggish, Mexico is taking a bigger bite of it.
With persisting worries in the European Economy and a sluggish recovery in the Asia Pacific and Africa region, the U.S. market could serve as an oasis for the company which is seeking growth ahead.
The labor market side of things is moving in the right direction, albeit at a sluggish pace, with unemployment dipping to 7.7% in February.
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They say the dynamics of trade with low-wage emerging markets are different: Even some who preach the virtues of free trade suggest China's and India's growing weight and move to more sophisticated products may contribute to sluggish wage increases in the U.S. and a widening gap between job-market winners and losers.
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