Replenishing inventory will be a temporary fillip without an increase in consumer demand.

在消费需求未增加的情况下，补充存货只能是临时刺激。

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Replenishing inventory will be a temporary fillip without an increase in consumer demand.

没有消费需求的增长补充存货也只是弹指一挥。

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That could force businesses, hit by weaker consumer demand and an increase in their own costs, to pare operations and cut more jobs in an already weak labor market.

这可能也会迫使遭受消费者需求低迷和自身成本提高双重打击的企业精简运营，在已经疲弱的劳动力市场上削减更多工作岗位。

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In addition, a tax on gasoline helps increase consumer demand for electric cars and seems likely to help the needed technological breakthroughs come even faster.

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In commodity markets, oil futures edged higher, shrugging off a bigger-than-expected increase in U.S. oil inventories that highlighted the weak pace of demand in the world's biggest oil consumer.

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According to Jonathan Banks, executive automotive analyst with the NADA Used Car Guide, used-vehicle prices will remain largely at their lofty levels because of looser lending standards, recovery in the housing and construction markets, a gradual decrease in unemployment levels, an increase in supply from booming new-car sales and pent-up consumer demand.

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