The Asian crisis may further drag down the traded-goods sector and push down the prices of imported goods.
But a new political party hopes to capitalize on simmering fears that the euro crisis could deepen and drag down Europe's biggest economy.
If the crisis was allowed to drag on and orderly defaults would have occurred, it would have likely started to weigh heavily on China.
It can help protect Carlyle's profits, because even if one of its portfolio companies files for bankruptcy, as five of them did during the crisis, it will not drag down the returns of other funds.
The housing crisis has been the single biggest drag on our recovery from the recession.
The European sovereign debt crisis is expected to remain a drag on global equity markets again in September.
Despite the volatility, however, Vodafone's emerging-markets exposure has soothed investors as European markets such as Spain, Italy and Portugal have become a drag on the company amid the European debt crisis and sluggish economic climate.
As emerging nations drag the world economy out of the financial crisis and subsequent recession, companies in these countries are quickly becoming major players in their sectors, pushing advanced Western nations further off the picture. (Read: Forget China, Look to Latin America).
As expected, the No. 1 drag to Citi's portfolio was the mortgage crisis.
Annan has said the ongoing crisis in Syria cannot be allowed to "drag on indefinitely" but resisted setting any sort of timetable.
The country is struggling to get out of the political and financial mire that threatens to drag down Europe's common currency and spark a new global financial crisis.
The steadily eroding situation in Japan has some economic experts warning of a financial crisis that would dwarf 1997's problems in Thailand and drag the world's economies into depression.
The Nobel Peace Prize, as much of the world keeps holding its collective breath, fearing that the potential collapse of the Eurozone, exits of member states, region-wide banking crisis, half-steps and dithering by European leaders could drag the global economy deeper into the mud and tear Europe into pieces yet again?
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He also warns that Congress cannot afford to drag out the confirmation process for Cabinet members, particularly with the U.S. dealing with a financial crisis and two wars.
In his remarks, Mr. Obama was careful to not predict any sort of financial crisis as a result of the sequester hitting, instead emphasizing the impact on working Americans and a potential drag on economic growth.
The outlook for the Eastern European economy was questioned after the International Monetary Fund this week reduced its growth assumptions for the region as the crisis in the euro zone home to some of its biggest trading partners continues to drag on.
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