The astonishingly weak market for personal computers continues to take a toll on tech investors.
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Weakness in the performance chemical unit had to do with weak market demand across the globe.
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But the IPO, which will probably be priced at mid-March, comes during a weak market.
When troubled assets are dumped, or when defaults occur during weak market conditions, the trough is deepened.
This action indicates that this weak market environment will not even let the strongest stocks go up.
Weak market sentiment caused by a slowing Indian economy has also prompted many to defer their buying decisions.
In the memory segment, some suppliers are even cutting production in an attempt to shore up weak market fundamentals.
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They also tend to trade like a bond in a weak market environment or when company fundamentals are weak.
Nonetheless, a weak market for takeouts clearly will slow the repayment train.
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The maker and marketer of packaged food products sold worldwide is a traditional defensive holding and has shown resilience in a weak market.
In 2009, a weak market forced Toll to cut prices by 25% on three-bedroom units at its massive 450-unit Northside Piers in Brooklyn, N.
This has indicated that fewer and fewer stocks were pushing the stock market to new highs and was a sign of a technically weak market.
Also, for financial reasons, REITS might be forced to sell trees into a weak market to maintain the healthy payouts investors expect, cutting into future returns.
"Oshkosh is meeting weak market conditions head-on by investing in global initiatives to improve distribution in key international growth markets and reducing costs across all businesses, " said CEO Robert Bohn.
Coal revenues declined 10% on the back of a weak market and cheap natural gas prices, as shares in companies in the sector including Peabody energy have taken a beating.
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The proliferation of Internet real estate sites makes it more feasible, but the reason Realtors have been demanding a bigger cut is that selling a house in this weak market takes a lot more work.
The Semiconductor Business sustained profitability in the quarter, amid weak market demand, thanks to a mix of high-margin products such as servers and Solid State Drives (SSDs) coupled with differentiated 20-nanometer class NAND flash chips.
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"Due to the current weak market, we wanted to offer attractive prices to our customers to boost their morale, " the spokesman said, explaining the decision to cut its car prices despite an increase in input costs.
The second lesson is that works that seem to be repetitious actually contain important, subtle differences. (Take heed, all you buyers who think one Damien Hirst butterfly or spot painting is just like another.) A weak market just exacerbates these differences.
Making Home Affordable was based on the idea that only minor obstacles were preventing lenders and borrowers from arriving at a mutually beneficial arrangement a reduction in payments that would prevent a default and allow the bank to get a higher return from a property than it could expect from foreclosure and resale into a weak market.
And overall you see that the run-up at consumer debt truly was much more explained in the last few years by a fairly weak labor market, very weak job growth, especially in manufacturing, where especially African-American men are disproportionally concentrated.
Clearly, a very weak job market is the prime cause for this loss of hope.
Falling home prices and a weak housing market are one more element of deflation.
Focus went into administration earlier this month after being hit by the weak housing market.
Groupon said it had been hit by an unfavourable exchange rate and a weak European market.
The weak housing market has led Americans away from home ownership and toward renting, pushing up rents.
Look at the last two earnings seasons and how weak the market reaction was to such strong numbers.
The senators envisage wealthy jet-setters and well-heeled retirees boosting America's weak housing market.
The weak jobs market, with a national unemployment rate stubbornly stuck above 9%, contributes greatly to this growing trend.
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There are many reasons for this, not least a structurally weak job market.
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