The engineering company is blaming the continued slump in the construction industry for the losses.
Some of the countries have been affected by the slump in the electronics sector, especially Singapore and Malaysia, and to a certain extent Thailand.
But the biggest change is the slump in the property market, where developers no longer need hoodlum muscle to empty slums and old buildings for fresh construction.
The slump in the West, however, has undermined that assumption.
The NZAS smelter was put up for sale last year but looking at the slump in the market, Rio is in no hurry to sell at the moment.
The current slump in the Pakistan cinematic industry has meant that he has had to erect a gas station within the cinema premises "in order to keep the ball rolling".
The costs of the social-security system are set to soar, in the short term because of the slump and in the long run because the country is ageing so fast.
The slump in the trade in the provinces of North and South Kivus which all this has induced has indeed hurt people who are offered little back-up from the Congolese state.
The slump in the country's industry will be even bigger, he said, around 13 percent, but the projected inflation for 2009 will be lower than in the past year, about 9 percent.
Now the slump in the telecommunications industry - coupled with the aftermath of the terrorist attacks - has led to its closure and the loss of a total of over 430 jobs.
In reality, the slump in the rouble, which has fallen 56% against the dollar since August 15th, and the resulting collapse in government-bond prices have made these and almost all other commercial banks in Russia insolvent.
On the bright side, however, the commercial-property downturn isn't expected to be nearly as steep as the current slump in the housing market, where recent data showed foreclosures rising to the highest level on record in the fourth quarter of 2007.
The slowing enterprise market, consumer softness in mature markets (U.S. and Western Europe), slowing demand from emerging markets, a weak reception for Windows 8 OS and cannibalization by tablets and smartphones are the main factors leading to the slump in the PC market.
While economic growth roared ahead at a rate approaching 5% in the summer, many economists believe it has slowed dramatically in the current quarter from the combined blows a severe slump in the housing market, a related reduction in the availability of loans and rising energy prices.
The latest round of cuts began in September in response to severe turbulence in credit markets around the globe as investors reacted to various reports of mounting losses from defaults in subprime mortgages, the latest fallout from the worst slump in the U.S. housing market in more than two decades.
Trade agreements are always controversial, but particularly so this year because of the economic slump in the United States.
Equity stocks were moving Monday morning, despite the overall slump in the indexes.
Analysts at Commerzbank noted that the cut-off date for the CFTC data does not take into account the continued slump in prices for the rest of week, so the situation may be different once newer data is released.
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The decline in China's surplus is partly due to the slump in its exports caused by the unexpectedly deep recession in rich economies.
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Masahiro Kawai, an official at the Asian Development Bank, this week urged the region to prepare for a slump in the dollar, the probability of which he compared to that of a global bird-flu epidemic: it is far from a certainty but would have a tremendous impact if it happened.
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The debt crisis in the euro zone and a deepening slump in the domestic property markets have aggravated the problems.
Mr Griffin was elected to the European Parliament in June even though the BNP polled fewer votes in the north-west England region than it had in 2004 - the slump in Labour support meant its share of the vote increased.
And is there a real undermining of the black community or have we already reacted to the downward slump in terms of the, you know, the good working-class job that seems to be disappearing in this era?
The central bank has been under pressure from Japan's new government to take more aggressive steps to fight the long deflationary slump in the world's third largest economy.
The success of business education is reflected through applications for MBAs remaining high even since the slump, in spite of the decline in demand for executive and customised programmes.
He came to power in 1933, when the entire industrialized world was mired in the Great Depression, the worst economic slump in modern times.
The Armenian Sarkies brothers, who built the Strand and Raffles, went bankrupt in the rubber slump of the early 1930s.
The East Asian countries are big importers of raw materials, so the slump in their economies has pushed down the prices of oil and other commodities such as metals and timber.
The idea here is to forestall a sales slump in the lead up to the new OS release.
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