Some of the largest tech companies--Hewlett-Packard, Cisco, Dell--are at some stage of rethinking the structure and focus of their businesses in response to lackluster growth.
In equities, investors are wondering if the U.S. stock market as a whole is somewhat overpriced given its performance year-to-date and lackluster growth in the economy.
Despite lackluster growth and policy paralysis in India, the Wisdom Tree ETF has beat the MSCI Emerging Markets Index, which is up 8.6 percent this year.
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Countries in deep debt need growth to dig out of their whole, and the lackluster growth figures present a new set of problems to countries like Greece and Italy.
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After showing lackluster growth in Q3, we expect emerging market growth to be buoyant before considering the currency impact, with China and Russia driving growth for the drug maker.
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That follows 19.17 percent and 16.81 percent growth in 2011 and 2010, respectively, when the industry bounced back from lackluster sales growth of 5.83 percent sales as the U.S. recession officially ended in 2009.
Property values have done quite well despite lackluster tenant growth because of low interest rates.
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Earnings at office and apartment landlords continued to grow but at a slower pace than in past quarters, the result of lackluster employment growth and increased competition.
The Japanese economy has just begun its third decade of lackluster economic growth and large Japanese companies like Sony, Panasonic and Toyota are retrenching after facing record losses or scandals abroad.
What began as a way to preserve cash when markets dried up a few years ago has become a means of freeing up money to fund expansions, buy back stock and support dividend payouts at a time of lackluster sales growth and shrinking profit margins.
While IBM reported a lackluster performance from growth economies at 1%, its new initiatives in Business Analytics, Smarter Planet and cloud delivered stronger growth.
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The relatively higher wages in Dallas are what pushed it to the top of the list, but for raw growth the Austin area wins at No. 2 in the nation with an expected 5-year annual growth rate of 3.9%. (No. 1 was Honolulu, which but for recent hiccups in its job market and lackluster projected income growth would be in the Top 10 overall).
To be sure, an increase in GDP is welcome, but growth remains lackluster.
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With U.S. economic growth remaining lackluster, the debate rages on whether the Fed will embark upon another round of bond-buying in 2012, widely known as quantitative easing.
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Credit growth is also lackluster, down from 26% early last year to just 10%.
The Saudi move to cut supplies has little to do with demand, as growth has been lackluster for most of 2012.
But unlike the Soviets, the Wal-Mart crowd can manage: they grind out ever-rising per-share profit, even as sales growth has become lackluster.
Even Sears, the blue-collar retailer, shows lackluster same-store sales growth.
Stocks put together a strong rally Friday, as investors pounced on word of lackluster second-quarter economic growth as a sign that the U.S. Federal Reserve was unlikely to raise rates at its Aug. 8 meeting, which would mark the first time in more than two years that it did not tighten monetary policy.
Against a backdrop of Federal Reserve policy, lackluster U.S. economic growth and periodic market panics over the European debt crisis, and signs of an economic slowdown in China, yields on 10-year Treasurys have hit levels previously thought almost impossibly low.
Investors are either regretting their decision to not jump into the stock market bull run earlier or are growing less concerned with their nearer team inflationary outlook given continued, lackluster U.S. and global economic growth.
Between the recent GDP report, Taxmaggedon, weak consumer spending and other factors, growth in the small business economy is lackluster.
While GDP can be helpful, there can be a disconnect between real GDP growth and actual equity market performance, where a lackluster stock market can exist in a country whose GDP regularly exceeds 6.5-7%.
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