As I noted earlier, Intel today chopped its revenue guidance for the third quarter, citing softness in enterprise PCs and weakening demand in emerging markets, among other factors.
Bernstein also believes in weakening demand, but his take is typical of a political liberal.
What persuaded FORBES GLOBAL to name Folz its Businessman of the Year was his ability to sustain Peugeot's positive momentum despite the weakening in the worldwide demand for automobiles in March of last year.
In China, worries are growing about weakening export demand (growth in export volumes has fallen by almost half over the past year to 11%) and falling property prices, which seem to play a role similar to equity prices elsewhere.
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Furthermore, while his company already sees that business in the United States and Western Europe is weakening, demand is growing strongly in Asia and the Middle East.
Cited reasons for the downgrades include investment and operating losses, and in some cases, weakening student demand.
"But the figures did not change the overall picture of a sector struggling to grow in response to rapidly weakening overseas demand, " Mr Tombs added.
Given the broader concerns about global growth and weakening demand for crude oil in the months ahead, this triangle could be a potential topping pattern.
Pawlicki said some pressure in gold could come from weakening of industrial demand due to economic weakness and from a potential resumption of the commodity liquidation.
Thursday's report showed weakening demand across a broad range of categories in June, including machinery, construction materials and computers.
Moreover, Rolf Eckrodt, who will be installed by DaimlerChrysler as chief operating officer early next year, will be carving out his strategies at a worse time than Mr Ghosn when demand for cars in America and Europe will be weakening.
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Growth of ordinary imports (excluding commodities) fell 9.0 percent y-o-y in October from -2.4 percent in September, an indication that domestic demand may be weakening and contrasts with the strengthening growth of industrial production and retail sales released on Friday.
Our direct financial exposure to those governments and their financial institutions is quite small, but Europe is so large and so closely integrated with the U.S. and world economies that a severe crisis in Europe could cause significant damage by undermining confidence and weakening demand.
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The interesting thing is that demand in the two major components of the aerospace market tends to vary inversely in other words, commercial demand tends to strengthen as military demand is weakening.
In the risk off environment the yen remains in constant demand and the CBanks unlimited funding has yet to have a material weakening impact.
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