Does this increased level of capital spending by businesses represent an anticipation of higher consumption demand?
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Additionally, tightening policies in China and India will keep a lid on inflationary pressures in the US as those countries seek to spur internal consumption and demand.
Rate cuts could potentially widen the current-account deficit by encouraging consumption and boosting demand for imported goods.
Rate cuts could potentially widen the current account deficit by encouraging consumption and boosting demand for imported goods.
The willingness of households to pile up debt buttressed the growth in consumption and overall demand during the past few years.
Rising income levels have resulted in a rise in domestic consumption, boosting demand for imports for items ranging from cars to electronic goods.
Countries with external surpluses need to boost consumption and domestic demand.
He says even with Spotify and other innovations that allow on demand consumption, still, people mostly want to hit a button, here some music, have it be low effort.
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The rise in global commodities has aggravated the challenges of this policy, since Beijing can expect to import more goods at higher costs, even as it fails to generate new household consumption-driven demand effectively (notwithstanding the surge in automobile imports when comparing the first-quarter 2011 deficit to that of 2004).
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Increasing demand for rich formats such as HD for media consumption is leading to growth in demand for high capacity disk drive solutions.
Further, increasing demand for rich formats such as HD for media consumption is leading to growth in demand for high capacity disk drive solutions.
As Mill put it, no act of consumption ever detracts from demand.
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The more animals there are being raised for human consumption, the more demand there is for feed crops, fertilizers, farming equipment, seeds and arable land.
Thus government should stimulate demand increasing consumption.
Since 1 calorie of beef requires 8 times as much input of grain as a single calorie of bread, Petrela recognizes that rising protein consumption means a rising demand for grains which in turn means a rising demand for global farmland.
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Smart metering is part of an increasingly popular trend in energy efficiency called "demand response" in which customers voluntarily cut back on their power consumption during times of highest electricity demand, like the hottest days of summer, when air conditioners are running at full blast.
The growth in broadband subscriptions is one of the factors that will drive the demand for video consumption over the Internet.
The bottom line for demand: Global consumption of oil and liquid fuels should increase by about 1.3 million barrels a day in the third quarter from the first quarter, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
Russia has achieved this success not by coddling its job creators or by adopting radically free-market and business-friendly policies, but by supporting consumer demand, encouraging consumption, and loosening credit within the confines of its (deeply flawed) preexisting economic structures.
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For all the familiar signs of British economic frailty that are now making headlines, such as demand driven by consumption rather than investment, the biggest long-term worry is a different one: whether productivity growth, troublingly weak in the past few years, can revive.
The increasing demand for HD content for media consumption and rich formats such as HD DVD and Blu-Ray drives the demand for high capacity disk drives solutions in the end-user market.
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The decline is attributed to fears of weakening global demand, slowing private consumption and higher costs.
Other components of demand, such as consumption and construction, are recovering slowly, if at all.
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The growth in consumption partly reflects the release of demand pent up for the last two years.
Japan's economy has been hurt by a dip in exports amid slowing global demand and subdued domestic consumption.
The number is puny in terms of global oil consumption, enough to supply world demand for approximately seven minutes.
As regards human consumption, the main source of demand comes from urban communities requiring water for drinking, sanitation and drainage.
The new technology responds to demand from drivers for consumption of music on the road, combined with Volvo's core safety value.
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Their increased consumption is more than compensating for falling demand for oil in rich countries.
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The ministry cited a decline in private sector investments and private consumption expenditure for dragging down total domestic demand.
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