That has led to a fall in demand and prices of commodities such as iron ore.
It fell in 2009 due to a fall in demand driven by high unemployment rates during the economic slowdown.
Marilyne MacLaren, Edinburgh City Council education leader, said there had been a fall in demand for meals over the last few years.
However, in the past few months, the trend has reversed and iron ore prices are slipping due to a fall in demand.
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The firm said it was restructuring its business because of a fall in demand for pizzas and an increase in sales of ready baked potatoes.
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Carmarthenshire council said it stopped its pest control services in 2011 because of a fall in demand and difficulty in offering lower prices than private companies.
Europe too is experiencing a fall in demand.
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"While in some areas we are seeing a maturing population and a fall in the demand for school places, in others, with more people moving in and an increase in birth rates, there will be a need for more places, " said Councillor Les Wicks.
The bank said a marked fall in demand for manufactured goods lay behind the latest decline.
Volkswagen's head of sales and marketing, Detlef Wittig, was also reported as saying that he expected 2010 to be a "difficult year" as the ebbing of government subsidies led to a fall in overall demand.
Now, given that the severe recession of 2008-2009 was caused by a sudden fall in demand, and given that demand and NGDP are the same thing, it would make sense for the Fed to increase NGDP in order to accelerate the economic recovery.
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Citing a fall-off in demand for notebooks, Gartner this morning chopped its PC growth forecast for both 2011 and 2012.
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If real estate collapses and the resulting banking crisis affects the rest of the economy, there will be a substantial drop in the demand for raw materials, with a corresponding fall in exports from countries that produce and export raw materials, and in OECD exports to emerging middle classes.
The ominous development can, however, provide a silver lining to U.S. defense contractors that may be see a fall in domestic and European demand in the wake of large spending cuts and austerity measures.
The reason for the shortfall: A decline in supply occasioned by the long-term fall in the car accident death rate has coincided with a growth in demand occasioned by aging demographics and breakthroughs in medicine.
Data on the German economy released on May 7th show that manufacturers, whose orders dropped by 3.9% in March, are suffering both from weak domestic demand and from a fall in export orders.
There would, on the other hand, be a useful fall in interest rates, because investors would no longer demand a premium for the risk that the exchange-rate peg would be broken.
The cuts come as slowing global demand and a fall in commodity prices have hurt profits at mining firms.
Arriva's profit warning comes hot on the heels of a disappointing trading statement from car retailer Car Group which warned that a recent fall in used car prices, depressed demand.
In the report, we produce data that suggests a peak of global oil production at less than 95 million barrels a day, up from some 85 million now, and we summarize fears that could result in a peak of less than 92 million, plus a steep fall beyond the peak, all at a time when demand is rising well in excess of 100 million barrels a day.
Japanese car maker Nissan has reported a big fall in third quarter profits, blaming weak demand in Europe, China and the United States.
There are a number of reasons to explain the fall in oil prices, including a stronger dollar (oil is priced in dollars) and weaker global demand.
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Manufacturers of TVs have also seen their profits margins squeezed as slowing demand and rising competition have led to a fall in retail prices.
Demand for milk has been in a free fall for decades.
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The service should also be fortnightly to reflect the fall in demand everywhere in the county, except in Bridgnorth which saw a 13% rise in use.
In his view, which has some prominent supporters, it is not a lack of supply, but a fall in real wages which has helped maintain employment and profits in an environment of slow demand.
The report also speculated that non-Chinese demand will fall in the near term, which is also hardly a state secret worthy of WikiLeaks.
Community trade union general secretary Michael Leahy said the announcement followed a four-year long downturn in the UK and European steel industry, with the fall in UK steel demand steeper than any other major European economy.
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