In China, car sales, which had been booming early this year, dropped a hefty 5.25% from May to June.
Some Chinese banks have switched to focus more on underwriting bonds, a business that has been booming since last year.
To be sure, analysts are predicting booming tablet sales this year.
This can apply to absolutely anything at all: Chateau Lafitte (there was a booming trade earlier this year between Paris and Hong Kong), rice, gold, shares, currencies, whatever.
But when the housing bubble burst last year, the booming Texas economy began to falter.
Based on the historical record, we should be completing our second year of a booming recovery by now.
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Based on that historical record, we should be completing the second year of a booming economy by now.
Based on that historical record, we should be nearing the end of the second year of a booming recovery by now.
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Based on these historical precedents, we should be nearing the end of the second year of a booming economy right now.
Today, the Rose Bowl Game is a booming enterprise, entering its 99th year of play.
Indonesia is showing steady growth of 4-5% a year, has a booming stockmarket and has won international praise for getting its government finances back under control.
The expanding job market will add to pressure on the US central bank, the Federal Reserve, to raise interest rates again in the New Year to cool the booming US economy.
With the stock market booming, this promises to be a lucrative year for people who work on Wall Street.
Global economic growth, combined with a booming world population (passing 7 billion last year), has put unprecedented stress on fragile ecosystems.
China's inflation is near a 10-year high, driven by its booming economy.
The oil price has since tripled, and, thanks chiefly to a devaluation of nearly 80% against the dollar, exports are booming and industrial production was up 11% year-on-year in January.
The final paradox concerns Britain's booming industry, now turning out 2m cars a year, back up to the output levels of the 1970s, before the unions started demolishing Rover's antecedent, British Leyland.
Weir has made a number of acquisitions throughout the year to boost its presence in the booming shale oil and gas industry in the US, which now accounts for about a third of the company's revenues.
After booming to 15 million accounts by the middle of last year, customer growth has flattened to almost nothing.
Rising interest rates--up more than a percentage point on most mortgages since a year ago--and a slowdown in booming prices are probably to blame.
The species had its best breeding season for 130 years last year, measured by the number of "booming" males, whose distinctive mating call is a low-pitched, far-carrying "boom".
The facility would spew out up to 11.5m tonnes of carbon dioxide a year as it feeds the power needs of the booming south-west, primarily around Phoenix and Las Vegas.
Besides the economic logic of each of these components discussed above, the experience with Reaganomics proves the plan will work within a year or so of adoption to get the economy booming again.
Although Airbus sold more planes in total than its rival last year, Boeing enjoyed a 70% share of a booming market in widebody, long-haul aircraft (where margins are better) .
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Geng's company, operator of 250 kilometers of toll roads that link mainland dynamo Shanghai, Hangzhou and the booming port of Ningbo, recently reported a 30% profit increase last year.
In the U.S., even though its stock market is at multi-year highs that might have one think its economy must be booming, the economy is just scraping along and slowing further, with GDP growing at just a 1.7% pace in the 2nd quarter, and corporations warning of still slower conditions ahead.
Economic slowdowns worsened even as markets spiked-up in a rally since June fueled entirely by hope, a rally that already factored in much of what can be hoped for from the belated and in some cases still absent rescue efforts, a rally that has the market at multi-year highs, a feat usually accomplished only in times of booming economic conditions.
But certainly the figure will be much lower than the booming rate of 5.4% in the first quarter, and last year's average of 3.8%.
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That began to happen during the first quarter of this year, when a rising trade imbalance proved a modest counterbalance to booming domestic demand, and its effect is intensifying as the trade deficit widens.
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