And Apple Computer also bucked the trend, thanks to buoyant demand for its new lap-top computer.
The firm said buoyant demand fundamentals supported by the finance industries will drive overall Grade A office rents to grow by 25% in 2011.
Make no mistake, with still-buoyant demand for tickets, well-heeled sponsors and an annual subsidy of DM24m, the Berlin Philharmonic is still far better off than, say, the plucky but impecunious London orchestras.
And last is the buoyant demand for derivatives that disguise the problems that lie both on and off companies' balance sheets, especially those left over from the spending spree of the late 1980s.
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Meanwhile, officials say that investment will come from Argentines' repatriating capital to supply buoyant domestic demand.
Buoyant domestic demand has recently been accompanied by the sort of foreign investment that some thought would never come.
Businessmen, particularly those enjoying buoyant consumer demand, are still cheerful.
Sales of highly profitable pickup trucks are tightly correlated with housing starts, while buoyant business travel boosts demand from car-rental firms.
The increase in the amount of leverage that PE investors were able to bring to the financing of LBOs and the softer covenants attached to it in 2010 should continue throughout this year, provided investor demand remains buoyant.
In Asia, the demand for EMBAs is particularly buoyant, with more than 700 managers enrolling on the program at the CEIBS school in Shanghai, China.
Scotland's whisky industry has seen a buoyant start to the year thanks to a resurgence in demand in Asian markets, new figures show.
China's demand for fertiliser is expected to be particularly buoyant as a result of its huge population and the poor quality of its arable land.
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Buoyant worldwide GDP eats up 2 million barrels per day of incremental demand.
Demand for Australian commodities has meant that its economy has remained buoyant during the recent global slowdown whilst Europe and the US have slowed down.
Extra rice demand from China could put a floor under global rice prices, which have been soft due to buoyant supply.
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