The analyst contends recent weakness in the stock reflects concerns over slowing global growth and worries about increased competition from Amazon.com.
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Concerns about the pace of economic growth, worries about European sovereign debt, frustration with Washington and volatile market conditions are combining to keep bearish sentiment at historically high levels.
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Just when German consumers seem to have recovered their confidence, after years of low wage-growth and worries about jobs and pensions, the government wants to raise value-added tax by three percentage points next January.
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The U.S. government said Friday that the economy expanded 2.5 percent in the first quarter over a year earlier, falling short of expectations of 3 percent growth and compounding worries about the global economy.
But worries about growth in the short run make nations reluctant to make longer-term moves.
The bears will tell you that worries about growth in Europe and China still linger and bickering in Washington could still derail the rally.
Indeed, worries about growth prospects were never far from investors' minds.
Sovereign-debt worries and soggy growth rates have helped shift the currency towards its fair value over the past 12 months.
The current environment of sluggish growth, government austerity and worries over the European banking sector has likely influenced the dramatic rise in money supply over the past 18 months.
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Increasing worries about weak income growth and unstable economies have left consumers eating out less.
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If not for our worries about future profit growth rates and future interest rates, we would have seen a booming stock market three years ago.
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The market also remains underpinned by worries about global economic growth, which could be complicated by the debt problems in the U.S. and Europe, analysts said.
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The worries about rapid price growth look especially founded in more expensive markets such as San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego that have witnessed double-digit price gains over the past year.
But serious risks remain for the global rebound, particularly worries about continued low growth in Europe and "fiscal risks in some major developed economies that are weighing on recovery, " Ms Lagarde told the Bo'ao forum.
Sentiment is likely to remain weak today after the main index of the Shanghai Stock Exchange fell to a three-year low on Friday amid worries about slowing global growth and a lack of domestic stimulus to offset it.
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Private employers added 172, 000 jobs in July, despite worries about global economic growth and looming spending cuts and tax increases in the U.S. Sectors from manufacturing to restaurants stepped up hiring and many firms took on temporary workers, a hint of future hiring.
The education and health services, the thing that worries me about that job growth, much of that job growth is very low-wage jobs.
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However, government data Thursday showed gross domestic product expanded just 4.5% in the October-December quarter, about half the rate of growth seen in early 2011, stoking worries that a recovery could take longer than expected.
Where once the Duma the lower house of parliament furiously tried to impeach the president, and the Kremlin sacked prime ministers on a whim, the worries now are about missed growth and inflation targets or the slow progress of useful bits of legislation.
Shares may be mixed as overseas gains are offset by worries about the pace of domestic growth.
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Even fans like William Chappell, an analyst at SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, worries that Heckmann is overpaying for growth.
Shope notes that the Street worries about trade offs between revenue growth and long-term gross margin strategy .
Worries about the effects of slower growth and higher oil prices on corporate profits have started to spook stockmarkets.
Despite worries about possibly weaker corporate earnings growth, Wall Street may be baking in an economic and earnings recovery a year or so for now, says Stovall.
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Shanghai's index bucked the trend by falling 2.8 percent, mostly on unrelated worries about China's own slowing growth.
This buoyancy has continued despite worries about the economy with another annual growth of 11.7% in jobs for graduates.
Although worries about cardiac problems may have hurt prescription growth, not everyone believes such problems exist.
But, broadly speaking, the growth school concentrates on businesses with outstanding prospects, and worries less about the price it pays for shares.
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In an era when markets for many pills are shrinking thanks to patent expirations and safety worries, insulin has emerged as an unlikely growth story.
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Though soft economic growth, volatile markets and tighter rules rank as bigger worries for most on Wall Street than the actions of traders, it is hard to ignore the risk completely.
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