Mercedes-Benz and Audi notched sales gains exceeding 35% last year, easily outpacing a sluggish market there.
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Industry analysts say rising mortgage payments and turmoil in the financial markets may have contributed to the ongoing sluggish market.
Despite sluggish market conditions, Samsung maintained solid profitability through its differentiated memory solutions and cost leadership based on its migration to 30-nanometer-class DRAM production.
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In the third quarter, economic uncertainty in developed markets and the sluggish market demand for notebook PCs and monitors is expected to dampen overall demand.
Google's recent deal with Clear Channel has some industry observers hopeful that the search giant will be able to re-spark interest in the sluggish market for radio advertising.
The sluggish housing market, however, isn't the only factor affecting the timber industry.
Most technology companies have a usual problem: not enough demand for their products, especially in a sluggish world market economy.
Never mind the still sluggish job market.
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It has struggled with the sluggish business jet market more than other plane makers.
Moreover, with Beijing having placed a moratorium on IPOs on exchanges in the cities of Shanghai and Shenzhen, and stock-trading volumes having been sluggish since the market crash, securities firms are keen to find new sources of revenue.
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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Although the American market is sluggish, Mexico is taking a bigger bite of it.
Foreign firms are looking to tap into China's booming internet market, amid sluggish growth in developed nations.
Sluggish economic growth and elevated market volatility have enhanced the attractiveness of stocks that are anchored by generous dividend distributions.
Sure, the U.S. consumer market turned a bit sluggish the second half of last year, and that continues.
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Ingersoll Rand ( IR - news - people ) in 2008, has suffered in the sluggish U.S. construction market.
Yet the Fed remains concerned about sluggish growth and the weak labor market and is committed to maintaining rates close to zero.
But wage growth has been sluggish, implying a soft jobs market.
The problem child that is the housing market continued to experience sluggish activity in most districts after the expiration of the April 30 deadline for the homebuyer tax credit.
Like today, in 1980 the economy and particularly the job market had been sluggish for years.
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Gasoline prices could spike high enough this summer to significantly rattle consumer confidence and further depress an already sluggish U.S. home sales market.
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Iran's economy is in trouble, facing 20 percent inflation, sluggish growth, and an uncertain job market, despite the windfall in oil revenue that has come Iran's way in recent years.
It turns out that, in addition to sluggish sales in America, the 3D TV market might be shrinking.
"We hope that Bozize will fulfil our aspirations and improve the country's sluggish economy, " Kadija Ba, a market vendor, said.
Amid the sluggish and competitor U.S. travel market, overseas hotel bookings have contributed to the steep rise of Expedia and Priceline in the recent years.
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Japan's biggest bank by assets and market value is keen to expand outside its domestic market, where loan demand is sluggish following two decades of economic stagnation.
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.
Global steel market remains plagued by oversupply and sluggish demand.
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True, it has focused on smaller aircraft, but the regional-jet business has, if anything, been much tougher than that for long-haul aircraft: witness the recent bankruptcy of Fokker, the previous market leader, not to mention the sluggish progress of plenty of government-backed aerospace projects.
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