The mild winter sets the sector up for a key test of underlying demand.
The company will continue trying to match production to underlying demand by eliminating shifts on a plant-by-plant basis where necessary.
What is vexing here is that investors still have very little visibility to the underlying demand for premium Windows Phone 8 devices.
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These include a lack of underlying demand for credit and an ageing population with slow productivity growth, which does little to inspire investment.
Mr Williamson said the data suggested that "underlying demand remains very weak and that activity may continue to fall in the new year".
Though, the vehicle sales number is extremely solid and indeed what is used to calculate GDP, underlying demand is better represented by retail sales.
He said at the same time there is a much stronger underlying demand for silver, principally from the industrial sector, a fact that is sometimes forgotten.
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Markit's new orders index fell below the 50 level for the first time since December 2010, dropping to 49.6 from October's 52.9 as underlying demand remained weak.
If anything, the underlying demand for Treasury bonds is rising.
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The underlying demand for housing remains very strong due to a number of factors, including urbanization, rising incomes, high saving rates and the attractiveness of property as an investment in China.
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In February, for example, Volt sales were 43 percent ahead of January, but that was mainly because GM was short of stock for a while, not because of a huge surge in underlying demand for the car.
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And such is why the safe-haven gold market has and will continue to garner underlying investment demand.
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The safe-haven gold market will likely continue to see some underlying investment demand from the ongoing EU debt crisis.
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The safe-haven gold market has and will likely continue to garner at least some underlying investment demand from the EU debt crisis.
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The safe-haven gold market has and will likely continue to garner at least some underlying investment demand from the ongoing EU debt crisis.
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The safe-haven gold market has and will likely continue to garner at least some underlying investment demand from the EU debt crisis, as we saw today.
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These are frothy numbers by any standard, and reflect in part the declining numbers of foreclosures being sold at giveaway prices in the interior markets of the state, and in part the underlying economic demand for real estate in the coastal cities, where prices traditionally have been high but plummeted dramatically during the recession years.
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Prices, though, overreacted, much like public opinion, and have fallen below what underlying supply-demand fundamentals suggest, according to research by RBC Capital Markets.
The FERC staff "concluded that an underlying supply-demand imbalance and flawed market design combined to make a fertile environment for market manipulation, " according to a statement summarizing the report.
The latest report suggests an underlying steady, moderate demand pace when the months are averaged.
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In Home Depot's results, momentum in the average ticket, sales per square foot and the volume of high-ticket items will gauge underlying home-improvement demand.
Silver is also maintaining underlying strength in industrial demand, Newman said.
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Gas prices should adjust because of a change in the forces driving the underlying supply of or demand for oil, not because stock prices are at a historic high.
And such is why the safe-haven gold market has and will continue to garner underlying safe-haven investment demand.
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He said he sees firmer prices next week, supported by physical demand and the underlying support of ultra-loose monetary policy by the Federal Open Market Committee.
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The difference is that a stimulus plan in China was done in an underlying atmosphere where there was pretty strong demand anyway.
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In particular, upward pressure on inflation could materialize if final demand were to exceed the underlying productive capacity of the economy for a sustained period.
Since, in most states, the limited partners can't control the portfolio's management or force the partnership's dissolution, an unrelated buyer would demand a discount from the underlying value.
The China news is a bullish underlying factor for the raw commodity sector, due to the demand implications.
The EU debt crisis is still a major underlying bullish factor for gold and is prompting safe-haven demand for the metal.
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