However, the company expects this trend to reverse in the future, with copper output projected to rise to 4.3 billion next year, from an estimated 3.6 billion pounds in 2012, with further gains in future years.
The risk of expecting a revival of the 2008-09 crisis and acting more aggressively than back then is being forced to reverse gears in the near future if the worst fails to materialize.
Despite differences about the best approach for controlling the spread of HIV, there is agreement that there has not been nearly enough success in either treating or preventing AIDS. And the epidemic is not likely to reverse its course in the near future.
Australia's deep economic linkages to booming China via its commodity exports mean that the RBA is unlikely to reverse its policy stance in the near future.
The company said it expects iron ore prices to remain strong in the long time and reverse current trends at some point in the near future.
So far, public sector employment has held up, but the huge pressures on public spending in the future could reverse this source of job growth.
For the moment, the priority is more cash to reverse the decline of the past, before investing in extra capacity for the future.
James Vaupel, director of Duke University's Population Research Institute, is sceptical of the argument that obesity may reverse future progress in life expectancy.
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However, financial markets are special in one crucial way: they link the present and the future, allowing savers to convert current income into future spending, and borrowers to do the reverse.
But the hard reality is that few emerging markets have any hope, in the foreseeable future, of creating the type and volume of economic opportunities needed to reverse or even substantially slow the brain drain.
From early 2008 to the summer of 2009, gold formed a massive reverse head and shoulders pattern that signaled to me that a future spike in prices was on the horizon.
There is plenty of time for future Congresses to reverse what was so laboriously agreed to over the past few weeks.
New York will need federal help to protect it from future calamities, and the world will need leadership on climate change in order to reverse this terrible trend.
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