Next to inventories, housing was historically the most volatile sector of the economy.
从历史来看，房地产业是仅次于库存的经济动荡之源。
Housing starts have yet to climb off the bottom, automobile sales have recovered only a third of their drop and the ratio of inventories to sales, after spiking during the recession, is now quite low.
房产刚开始爬出底部，汽车销售目前只回升了跌幅的三分之一，而待售的库存经过衰退中的激增，也在目前到达非常低的位置。
The answer is, it has to work through accumulation of inventories — physical inventories.
答案是投机必须通过库存的积累来起作用——实物库存积累。
Toyota and Honda took to “just-in-time” inventories and quality management because land and raw materials were expensive.
丰田和本田公司由于土地和原料的上涨，引入了即时存货管理和品质管理。
Also, manufacturers have little incentive to provide their own sales incentives because inventories are low.
另外，同样由于存货少，汽车制造商们对自身的产品促销积极性也不高。
The only glimmer of encouragement is that progress in adjusting inventories to the weaker environment is already being made.
唯一能令人稍感鼓舞的是，在更弱势的经济环境下对存货量进行调整方面已经取得了一些进步。
Swift adjustments to workforces and inventories mean that Japan may recover sooner than other rich economies.
劳动力及存货量的迅速调整意味着日本可能会比其他富裕国家更快的复苏。
New orders exceeded inventories to the greatest extent since 1975, strong argument for the belief that the US will now see a “restocking boom” as production is stepped up to replenish inventories.
新订单与存货之比达到1975年以来的最高水平，有力地支持了这样的信心：随着企业增加产量补充库存，美国将出现重新增加库存的热潮。
Firms shed workers, increased productivity, slowed production, and reduced inventories—everything necessary to improve their balance sheets, which become flush with cash.
公司裁了员，提高了生产率，降低了产量同时减小了库存——都是可以提高他们资产负债表的必要步骤，同时现金变得充裕了。
'Many customers have dramatically curtailed production to draw down inventories,' CEO Charles O. Holliday Jr. told analysts on a conference call for the chemicals company.
首席执行长贺利得(Charleso .Holliday)在公司电话会议上向分析师表示，许多客户都大幅削减产量以降低库存。
Zara postpones dyeing and printing designs until close to manufacture, thereby reducing waste and minimizing the need to clear unsold inventories.
直到快要生产了Zara才染色印花，因此而减少了浪费，也实现了低库存。
The second biggest revision was to private sector inventories, now judged to have contributed 0.1 per cent to quarter-on-quarter growth, rather than 0.4 per cent.
调整幅度第二大的是私营部门库存数据，调整后的数据显示，私营部门库存为当季环比增长贡献了0.1个百分点，而非先前公布的0.4个百分点。
But unless there are other factors pushing demand, GDP will plateau when the pent-up demand is satisfied and inventories are restocked to a normal level.
但是，除非有其他的因素可以推动需求扩大，GDP将在潜在需求被满足以及库存恢复正常水平后止步不前。
Prices did fall below our covenant so we had to get clients to top up margins or increase inventories.
价格的确低于我们的合约规定，所以我们必须让客户补足保证金或增加库存。
The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation forecast a record harvest in cereals this year, but said this might not be enough to replenish rundown inventories.
联合国粮农组织预计今年谷物收成将突破记录，但认为这或许并不足以补充缩减的粮食库存。
This also allows inventories to be inflated and illegal wood to enter the supply chain.
这同样允许木材的库存扩大，并让非法砍伐的木材流入供应链。
Much of the fall was due to businesses slashing inventories to cope with drops in sales.
这次下降主要是由于企业为应对销售下降而削减存货引起的。
Toyota and Honda took to "just-in-time" inventories and quality management because land and raw materials were expensive.
昂贵的土地和原材料迫使丰田和本田采取了“准时制生产”的存货和质量管理体系。
But now, after cutting their inventories to the quick, some businesses are starting to rebuild their stocks.
但现在，一些企业开始在之前大量减少库存之后又重新积攒库存。
But that will not be enough to reduce global inventories, given that the drop in demand from the rich world is greater than China's total imports.
然而考虑到富裕国家石油需求的减少量超过中国石油总进口量，这还不足以减少全球石油库存。
Carmakers are slashing production to reduce big inventories.
汽车制造商在大量削减生产以降低库存。
The number of Kanbans is reduced carefully to lower inventories and to reveal problems.
谨慎地减少看板的数量来降低库存并揭露问题。
The Saudi response to the recent knee-jerk buoyancy of oil futures was to hold prices and hope to work off brim-full inventories.
沙特回应了最近自动上浮的原油期货价格，以保持价格的稳定并希望提供更为充足的原油库存。
But when recovery seems more assured, firms will want to borrow to beef up inventories and buy new equipment.
但是，当复苏的出现变得更有把握时，公司都想要借款从而补充存货，购置新的设备。
Once the inventories are sold prices will begin to rise again.
一旦存货售完，价格将开始再次上升。
Once the inventories are sold prices will begin to rise again.
一旦存货售完，价格将开始再次上升。
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