This is going to become increasingly important as demand from emerging markets becomes ever more important.
Electrical engineering firms have suffered particularly badly in recent months as demand from technology firms has slumped.
But even as conditions improve, the recovery has been uneven, as demand from key markets such as Europe and the US has faltered in recent months.
Manpower, America's largest temp agency, experienced flat sales in the fourth quarter of last year, down from 7% growth year-on-year in the third quarter, as demand from manufacturers plummeted.
But last year solar cell manufacturers bought more silicon wafers than chipmakers--and solar's demand for wafers is growing three times as fast as demand from the rest of the electronics industry.
Although the inventory of new homes is falling as builders have slashed their production, the supply of homes for sale is being pushed up by foreclosures even as demand from new homeowners remains weak.
Japan has reported a wider-than-expected trade deficit in July, as slowing demand from China and Europe weighed on exports.
The company blamed the lower expectations for softness in the corporate market, as well as slower demand from emerging markets.
The first stage of the application process involves groups setting out their aims and "vision" for the school and the area they hope to serve as well as showing demand from parents.
Over the last year those predictions have increasingly focused on the Social Media Management Platform (SMMP) space, specifically about how I expected consolidation as demand increased from marketers, and big tech players realized the necessity and potential of these platforms.
Though the percentage contribution might decline in the future as higher demand from Asia-Pacific and Latin America outpace demand growth from Europe, the European online travel market offers higher growth opportunities compared to the US. The European online travel sales is expected to grow at a CAGR of 5.7% till 2016 as compared to 4.8% CAGR for the US online travel market.
Most customers, though, are still on 3G networks that don't demand as much from their batteries.
As demand, mainly from China, has soared, many shark populations have plummeted by as much as 90% in recent decades.
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But he says that PC demand from commercial customers remains robust, thanks in part to continuing PC refresh for companies upgrading to Windows 7, as well as consistently strong demand from the emerging markets for both consumer and commercial PCs.
At the same time, notebook computer demand will recover as component shortages from the Japanese earthquake and tsunami diminish and as customer demand for a new generation of notebook computers and. tablet computers establishes a new equilibrium.
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As expected, we continue to see weak demand from the solar inverter market as well.
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We expect inventories to be further depleted, as demand continues, especially from emerging markets.
Many Estonian farmers went bankrupt as production plummeted when demand from its huge neighbour collapsed.
The Commission's proposals were restricted to just three chronic conditions so as not to stoke demand from patients.
While none have been truly catastrophic, Valenzuela noted, as the demand for tequila from the U.S. and other markets continues to grow, the threat of serious crop failure does as well.
Nations ranging from Indonesia to Brazil to the Philippines have sold bonds at record-low yields as investors seek government debt they deem safe even as they demand higher payments from nations they don't.
The biggest decline on its balance sheet was in loans to foreign central banks, which could imply that those banks don't face as much demand for dollars from panicky commercial banks in their own nations.
Foreclosures have ground to a halt in the Kings County courts in Brooklyn as judges demand definitive documentation from lenders and require lawyers to place their license on the line by attesting to their accuracy (few do).
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Its economy shrank by a quarterly rate of 0.6 percent in the fourth quarter, more than the 0.4 percent expected, as demand for its exports from its European neighbors were dragged down by the underlying economic malaise.
Panel manufacturers are pinning their hopes on rising demand from markets such as the U.S. and China to compensate for declining sales from traditional European markets.
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Meanwhile, Bunge is building up its sugar business in Brazil and could score big from demand for ethanol from sugar, as described in a Ycharts analysis Dec. 21.
Its growth has been hurt by a decline in demand for exports from key markets as well as a subdued domestic demand.
Mobile product manufacturers have looked at solar energy for some time, as consumers demand more battery power from portable devices.
That could tally with the additional demand from Apple as its contract manufacturers begin stamping out iPhones and a rumored higher-capacity memory player.
Greenbrier (GBX) today reported a quarterly profit that beat estimates helped by increased rail traffic as a result of higher demand from the U.S. energy market.
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