Europe's slide toward deflation is not helped by its weak economic environment: The euro zone jobless rate rose to 9.5% in May, from 9.3% in April, hardly evidence of green shoots.
While its peers slash their forecasts amidst an ugly economic environment, Hewkett Packard is boldly predicting that its future profits will beat Wall Street's expectations.
Going forward, we believe that growth in the Chinese auto market will remain bumpy until the government renews its stimulus program in light of worrying global economic environment after reigning in inflation.
With the economic environment improving slightly in 2010, its EBITDA margin also improved, and we expect the produced coal EBITDA margin to increase to around 18% by the end of the Trefis forecast period.
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Palm blames reduced demand for its maturing legacy smart phone products, the challenging economic environment and later than expected shipments of the Treo Pro smart phone in the U.S. The company expects the trend to continue through the fourth quarter.
Its effects have been longstanding and, given the current economic environment, it is as important as ever.
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We believe that the Greater Mekong region has the potential to become a world leader by pursuing an innovative, low carbon, green development pathway that will foster economic growth and create opportunities for its people, while conserving the natural environment.
The criteria will set the a minimum standard for sustainability for the tourism business, covering the social and economic benefits of tourism as well as its impact on a destination's environment and cultural heritage.
The company also warned that its profit margins may remain under pressure in the short term amid the challenging global economic environment.
In a country trying to crawl out of its worst economic crisis for more than a century, it is not surprising that the environment comes low on the agenda.
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Poland's economic performance could improve further if the country addresses some of the remaining deficiencies in its business environment.
This decline in the anticipated first quarter EPS points to the effect of the European sovereign debt crises, slowing growth in the Asia-Pacific region and the weak economic environment in the U.S. In addition, the company faces increased pressure on its net income on account of higher pension contributions, which have increased as a result of historically low interest rates.
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In particular, where its member governments are concerned, there needs to be a greater involvement of economic ministries and statistical agencies, alongside environment ministries.
Difficult economic times add extra stress to the work environment and put pressure on a company and all of its employees in much the same way as being down by a goal adds pressure to a team in a Euro match.
"Despite the difficult business environment due to the economic slowdown in developed markets, Samsung achieved a solid performance and recovered its double-digit operating profit margin in the quarter, driven by strong sales of our smartphones, " said Robert Yi, Vice President and Head of Investor Relations.
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